Obama launches new ad, plans return to Hub

Barack Obama is launching a new TV ad tomorrow in New Hampshire that highlights his own educational background and articulates some broad prescriptions, including expanding early-childhood education and recruiting a new generation of teachers. It's a broad-brush, 30-second ad that offers nothing in the way of new policy, but it seeks to humanize Obama and show his attention to the classroom.

"My parents weren't rich. My father left me when I was very young," he says in the ad. "The one thing I was able to get was a great education. We should give every child the same chances that I had."

Obama graduated from the Punahou School in Honolulu before earning degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Watch the ad, called "Chances I had," here.

In addition, Obama is set to return to Boston for a small-dollar rally -- tickets are $23 -- on Sunday Dec. 2 at the Boston Park Plaza Castle. See details here.