Except for the occasional national ad buy, you won't see many commercials from the Romney or Obama campaigns in Oregon. But Green Party candidate Jill Stein announced Thursday that she will be running a new TV ad in several states, including Oregon.

Janelle Sorensen, a spokeswoman for the Stein campaign, said Oregon has a "demographic that is sympathetic to the platform" of the Green Party. There's certainly some evidence to that. In 2000, consumer advocate Ralph Nader -- who had similar views on issues -- took 5 percent of the vote in Oregon, his 10th best showing nationally.

A release from the campaign said it would focus its ad buy in these nine states: California, New York, Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, Texas, Minnesota, Maine and Rhode Island.

Stein has qualified for federal matching funds for her campaign and expects to spend about $1 million overall -- a small fraction on the

. The Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, and their allies, are spending almost all of their money on

.

Her campaign said the ads will appear on a variety of cable channels as well as some local broadcast stations. Below is a web version of her new ad. Spoiler alert: she uses a bleeped out profanity to rather good comic effect.