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The Cleveland audience is listening intently but the atmosphere in the auditorium is somber. Brian Williams and Tim Russert play a game of good cop/bad cop.
Sitting behind me: a college student show studies photography, got her ticket through the lottery and hadn’t thought about the election until she heard about the debate. She is undecided but wants to hear about health care because her father lost his job in August and will be a senior in a few years.
Sitting in front of me: an African-American woman in her 50s who is there to cheerlead Obama. She won a ticket too and is from Cleveland. There’s nothing she really feels a need to hear about.
Sitting next to her: a 54 year old man from Dayton, Ohio who won his ticket too. He feels that this is an historic event and that’s why he wanted to be here. He support Obama because of how he’s engaged the younger generation and that we need his leadership for that generation. He hopes they talk about the fallen prestige of the U.S. and Supreme Court appointments.
Sitting a few rows below me: two brothers, one 17 and one 19, both born and raised in Cleveland, older brother went to and graduated from Shaker Heights high school and just graduated Cleveland State. They didn’t like or really understand why in the scheme of things Iowa gets to go first. They hope to hear about taxes.
I moved back to the Media Filing Center because it was difficult to hear Obama in the audience.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:27 pm February 26th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Debates, Hillary Clinton, Ohio, Politics, Primary, WH2008
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Interesting Jill that some had no special questions. Nice visual ty
Great job on all of this, Jill! I like your cross-section of the audience above.
The only thing that scares me about this race, is the number of people that are voting because of the race/gender of the candidate. And I’m seeing more and more of it as time passes.
You did a GREAT job tonight Jill!!!!
In the MSNBC debate Hillary solidified her position as the weaker, less presidential and more desperate candidate! As a female democratic, I have decided to forgo supporting the election of the first female president to elect a man who, I believe, can truly bring about change!
I thought Barack came out of this debate as the victor. Hillary was very rude. No place for someone like that in the White House.
Sorry Hill, ya just don’t got it!
I agree. Hillary was rude and the moderators favored Barack because of it. Oh well, I guess she deserved it. I was leaning toward Hillary, but now I’m gonna vote for Obama on the 3rd.