We woke up this morning to find a pile of ads running on progressive blogs for the Obama 2012 campaign.

Wow, this is the fifth campaign cycle for blogs. As a sign of how campaigns are accelerating: the first ads of the 2004 were bought by Howard Dean’s campaign in December of 2003, nearly 9 months later in the campaign cycle.  Here’s a post about that purchase.

Here’s a screenshot of the Obama blogad, one of our new tweetable units, as it appears on BlueVirginia. The tweet is “President Obama is in for 2012. Are you? http://ofa.bo/ba2012 #obama2012″