CA-GOV: New Angelides Ad - "Performance"

You can see it here.

My initial thoughts are that it's pretty good, it sticks to the issues at hand and basically asks the simple question "Who do you trust?" It also hammers the line from the debate that the 2005 Special Election initiatives were "good ideas."

UPDATE: I just got off a conference call with Angelides spokesman Bill Carrick. Here's what came out of it:

• This is a statewide ad buy.
• The key point he wanted to make in the ad is that the Governor's campaign is a fraud - "the elephant in the room" (a somewhat clever play on words)
• The three big points Angelides makes at the end of the ad is that he would fully support and fund CA schools, roll back tuition and fees, and push for a middle-class tax cut.
• Carrick characterized the PPIC poll released today showing an 18-point Schwarzenegger lead as "wrong - an exaggerated, conservative, white look at the electorate." He says the campaign's internal polls show it to be a single-digit race.
• In addition to Howard Dean today and Obama-Pelosi-Villaraigosa tomorrow, Sens. Kerry and Boxer will campaign with Angelides in Pasadena on Monday.
• The only thing any of the idiot reporters asked about was the PPIC poll because horse-race is all they can manage to understand.