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Faithful Catholic Citizens is running TV spots in Colorado and Iowa attacking Barack Obama and other Democrats for their support of abortion rights, pouring over $35,000 into two battleground states that polls show may turn blue this year.

With economic turmoil keeping traditional wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage on the campaign back burner, co-founder Tony Likins said his group wanted to redirect the national conversation back to its bread-and-butter issues.

"We've gotten a great response," Likins said. "People keep saying, 'Hooray, where have you been?'"

The latest ad, "Moral Crisis Bailout," addresses Catholic lawmakers in Washington.

"A financial bailout plan to address the economic crisis has been passed, and we pray that it works," the narrator says. "Now we ask you to address the moral crisis in our nation."

Two other (subscription) ads -- both titled "Are You Truly Catholic?" -- hammer Obama for saying that the question of when life begins was "above my pay grade" at Rick Warren's Saddleback Civil Forum on the presidency in August.

"Abortion is intrinsically evil," says the group's co-founder, Heidi Stirrup, in the ad. "It's a non-negotiable issue for Catholics."

If recent polls from Colorado and Iowa are any indication, Faithful Catholic Citizens has a lot of ground to make up. Obama leads John McCain by 5 percentage points in Colorado, according to a FOX News/Rasmussen poll released Monday. A SurveyUSA poll released Oct. 11 showed the Illinois senator with a 13-point lead in Iowa.

The internal numbers also show Obama making inroads with Catholics and abortion opponents. In Iowa, the SurveyUSA poll shows McCain garnering the support of 62 percent of anti-abortion voters, compared to the Democrat's 33 percent. McCain is beating Obama among white Catholics in Colorado 52-41 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Oct. 14.

Both are good figures for McCain, no doubt. But the fact that so many abortion foes support Obama shows that abortion may not be a "non-negotiable" issue for some socially conservative voters, as Faithful Catholic Citizens' ads suggest. Obama already boasts the support of some high-profile Catholics and anti-abortion crusaders.

Some of this willingness to support an abortion-rights candidate can be traced to the faltering economy: 65 percent of voters in today's Diageo/Hotline daily tracker poll said the economy was the most pressing problem facing the country, while just 1 percent of respondents identified overturning Roe v. Wade as the most important issue.

But Likins argued that Catholics who prioritize their pocketbooks over their religious principles are in the wrong.

"Either they are purposefully rejecting the church’s teaching, or they are just misinformed and misguided," he said.

Faithful Catholic Citizens is not the first anti-abortion group to attack Obama recently. BornAliveTruth.org recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars running an ad highlighting his votes against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act in the Illinois state Senate.