As the week ends, a couple of interesting items to mention in the race for governor from the campaigns of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Phil Angelides.

First, Team Arnold... and a new TV ad called "33"-- as in the 33 newspapers around the state that have endorsed a second term for the governor. The commercial feels for all the world like what can best be called, in baseball parlance, a "closer." The ad still uses the warm and fuzzy music and images of almost every Schwarzenegger ad this season. But added to that are flashing quotes from various editorial endorsements, calling Schwarzenegger everything from "bipartisan" to full of "optimism." You can watch the ad here.

Given both the public polling... and the governor's continuing stealth re-election campaign (today, another "official state" event talking up increased access to broadband tech)... it's hard to see this commercial as anything but the campaign's closing statement.

That being said, the campaign of Phil Angelides is not giving up. In fact, staffers continue to ramp up the visibility of the candidate, by linking him with more and more stars on the national Democratic scene. After a speech this morning in Oakland at the national convention of the NAACP, Angelides is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles with U.S. Sen. Barrack Obama (D-Illinois).

The campaign stop by Obama couldn't come at a better time, with the junior senator getting an awful lot of media attention in the last 10 days for his comments about an exploratory bid for the White House in 2008. The Angelides camp clearly knows it needs to fire up its base voters, and Obama is the current hot commodity.