Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator Barack Obama will take his message to the television airwaves in West Virginia, the first of the presidential candidates to start running campaign ads aimed specifically at West Virginians.
The start of the television campaign on Friday came as the Obama West Virginia Campaign prepared to open campaign offices in Clarksburg, Huntington, Martinsburg and Parkersburg this weekend.
Those four will join four other Obama offices already open and operating in Charleston, Huntington, Morgantown and Beckley.
"We will be setting up a few other regional offices in the future but those are the offices we currently have open," says Obama West Virginia State Director Ashley Walker.
Third District Congressman Nick Rahall says once West Virginians learn more about Senator Obama he will pick up support. "He is a coal state senator and he knows the needs and the concerns and the dreams and the aspirations of our people in West Virginia."
As of early Friday afternoon, there were no visits to West Virginia on Senator Obama's schedule. Campaign officials say the senator's schedule, though, is changing quickly and is usually not set more than a couple of days of ahead of time.
