Family Research Council Action has this last-minute ad running in Virginia, where polls show Barack Obama a few points up, hitting Obama for declining to oppose partial birth abortion in Illinois.

For all of the candidates’–and the electorate’s–focus on economic issues, the final days of the campaign have seen a lot of these hot-button ads, a testatment to the emotional power that social conservatives think such arguments have. The Pennsylvania Republican Party’s Rev. Wright ad fits into that category.

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