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Anastasia Pantsios writes here on Daily Kos and in great detail about last night’s straw poll in Lakewood, Ohio. A little 100 people cast ballots. Thank you, Anastasia.
Here’s an excerpt:
Lakewood is a large inner-ring suburb immediately to the west of Cleveland along the lake, a very diverse place of block after block of modest single-family homes and duplexes and some apartments, old-fashioned storefront shopping streets, a stretch of high-rises along its lakefront “gold coast,” many immigrants, lots of young people (and lots of “meat-market” and sports bars) and a very big gay population (once said to be the largest outside San Francisco and New York), among other things. (Also an excellent chocolate store where I stopped before the event to get some dark-chocolate covered orange peel. Sweet Designs at 16100 Detroit Ave. if you’re ever in the area.)
It’s also at the very heart of Ohio’s 10th congressional district so I wasn’t too surprised when I came in to see congressional challengers Barbara Anne Ferris and Rosemary Palmer and their teams already there shaking hands and passing out literature, nor was I surprised to see that Team Kucinich had set up a table groaning with the trademark bright yellow bumper stickers, note pads, window signs and other Kucinich for Congress paraphernalia. (Those low on note pads were doubly blessed, as Judge Stuart Friedman, running for appeals court, was also there passing out pads.) Kucinich himself soon showed up with his wife Elizabeth and hung out for a good portion of the evening, chatting with constituents. He’s back home in his district and ready to rumble!
My cover story on the Oh-10 race ran this week http://www.freetimes.com/ with Dennis on the cover and he stopped to thank me for covering the race fairly. Barbara had not read the story yet, but Rosemary and her husband Paul said they’d appreciated it and thought I’d done a good job of capturing their campaign.
And heeeeere’s Dennis:
Finally, the organizers gathered all the candidates on stage. They let Dennis, Rosemary and Barbara each have a minute to speak. Dennis said forcefully, “I’ve had the opportunity to campaign with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and they are both worthy candidates and both are ready to serve their country as president.” Good on you, Dennis!
Again, thank you, Anastasia. Primary source blogging. Gotta love it.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:49 am February 1st, 2008 in 'Roots News, Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Ohio, Politics, WH2008
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[...] there seems to be a lot of interest in Ohio right now, I’m bumping up the great information including a final tally from Anastasia Pantsios provided as a result of her attendance at the January 31, 2008 Democratic Straw Poll in Lakewood, [...]
America needs Obama not Clinton. We need a change and that means also from the 8 years of the Clinton’s in the White House. I changed my vote from Hillary to Obama before the first super Tuesday.
Thanks for reading and commenting, Larry. I don’t really agree with the whole “we need change” thing from whatever we had in 1992-2000, but I know many people share your sentiments.