Obama continues big Iowa push

Another day, another new Iowa TV ad from Barack Obama. Today's installment, called "Mother," is a personal reflection on how his mom, Stanley Ann Dunham, struggled with cancer but was more worried about how she'd pay her health care bills. Dunham died in 1995.

With Hillary Clinton getting lots of attention this week for her second try at universal health care, Obama is trying to draw Iowa voters' attention to his own health care plan. “For 20 years Washington’s talked about health care reform and reformed nothing,” he says in the new ad, set to begin running tomorrow. “I’ve got a plan to cut costs and cover everyone. But unless we stop the bickering and the lobbyists, we’ll be in the same place 20 years from now.”

Yesterday, Obama unveiled another new TV ad to run in Iowa, in which he sells himself as the candidate who will bring true change to Washington.

As part of his big push in Iowa, Obama will also hold a town hall meeting for seniors tomorrow in Ames. And The The Quad City Times newspaper in eastern Iowa tomorrow will publish an op-ed Obama wrote about strengthening Social Security and opposing any effort to privatize it, according to Obama's campaign.