(Video) Obama releases his first TV spots in Iowa

The Des Moines Register reports that today Barack Obama will unveil two television ads in the state of Iowa.  One is 30 seconds, while the other is one minute long.  Each highlights his background in community organizing, constitutional law and draws upon messages from his 2004 Democratic Convention speech.  Most of all, the video indirectly paints Obama as someone that remains free from the grips of the Washington establishment.

Here are the ads, starting with the 30-second one first:

And here is the longer one:

The Obama Campaign hopes these television spots will jump-start their candidate's popularity in Iowa, a state that John Edwards leads in just about every poll.  Obama has a passionate group of supporters in Iowa.  But the challenge has been his campaign's inability to do an effective job of branching out to a wider group of potential supporters.