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MEGA meta-post on Cleveland Democratic presidential primary debate, 2/26/08, between Clinton & Obama


Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate was the highest-rated show in MSNBC’s 11 year history and the third most watched debate in this presidential election cycle. The total number of viewers is listed as 7.6 million.

The event unfolded in the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University and continues to be a conversation, or at least blog and Internet news-item starter. If, after today, I read an uniquely outstanding take, I may post about it, but otherwise, this will be it for my round-ups of debate-related posts and I will move on to posting the remainder of my photos and video as well as my reflections of that day. My list is by no means exclusive – it’s just what I’ve come across in the last two to three days. Feel free to add others in the comment section – just copy the URL you want people to visit, place <a href=” before it and quotation marks and </a> after it.

Ohio Daily Blog and Buckeye State Blog have multiple debate-related post but interestingly, neither blog has tags that I could discern to help clumb all the debate posts together so you’ll have to use their search tools (if they tell me an easier way, I’ll post it; it might be a function of Drupal which they both use). You can also go to places like Google’s Blog search, Lefty Blogs or BlogNetNews Ohio and search on “cleveland debate” if you are a glutton for punishment.

Political science major from Muskingum, Josh Chaney, writes up the experience for the Coshocton Tribune

I was lucky to have made it alive. Snow covered every inch of Interstate 77, between Cambridge and Cleveland Tuesday night, making the dividing lines invisible for most of the trip. I don’t think I went faster than 45 mph.

Yet, determined to witness political history, I made it to the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University in one piece, my poor truck nearly frozen solid, warning lights flashing on the dash.

Jen Steer is a senior broadcast journalism student at Kent State. (She also blogs at Black Squirrel Politics.)

Her photos from the debate floor photographer pool

Her reflections on the debate & debate coverage experience (don’t you wish you were always seeing things with such wide-eyed newness and fascination?)

Great video from the spin room of reactions after the debate including Gov. Strickland, CSU president Schwartz, U.S. Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown

Video of ODP Chair Chris Redfern speaking about young voters

Ohio-based freelance journalist and blogger supreme bar none Wendy Hoke gives her debate run-down here.

The truly splendid John Michael Spinelli, who was at the debate with me and all the others, has numerous excellent posts and pictures and I think video too, yes? Start here, where you can find a summary and the entire transcript of the debate.

Joe Libava, The Franchise King, on why he liveblogged the debate

Also, here’s his liveblog video of the debate night activities with bloggers at WKYC

Here is Gloria Ferris’ liveblog of the debate, also done from the WKYC blogger hutch; she used something called CoverItLive – I like it!

And here is Derek Arnold’s liveblog (Derek – is there more somewhere else?)

Cleveland’s Equanimous Philosopher Roger Bundy who was with the MTB group live-blogged here

Here’s WKYC’s own article about the bloggers among them during the debate

Meet the Bloggers’ debate meta

This PR/Marketing firm has a nice post called, “Social and Traditional Media Team up at Cleveland Presidential Debate” which also mentions the WKYC/Meet the Bloggers collaboration

The most current edition of the Cleveland State student publication, The Cauldron, has several articles on the debate:

In general

The debate watch party

CSU steals the spotlight

Feature on Chris Matthews’ Hardball from CSU

How one student finds the debate reassures his vote for McCain

Pho in Akron offers his perspective here.

Great slideshow from the Cleveland Scene.

Please read this liveblog from Keith (who lives east of Cleveland) at Bad American – he does a great in the moment post as it unfolds.

Ed Morrison highlights how the debate didn’t TOUCH education – how many of you knew that Ed in ‘08 actually was one of the debate sponsors?

Ohio’s own Five Husbands comments on Tim Russert.

The Plain Dealer says that CSU stars at the debate, but PD political reporter Mark Naymik blogs that the debate missed the important questions (for the first time in a while, I agree completely with Mark).

TIME magazine: “A Clash of Styles in Ohio Debate”

DrTruth was at an Ohio-based debate watch party and wrote this post about it.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:48 pm March 1st, 2008 in Campaigning, Cleveland+, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Media, Meet the Bloggers, Ohio, Politics, Primary, Tech, WH2008 

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4 Responses to “MEGA meta-post on Cleveland Democratic presidential primary debate, 2/26/08, between Clinton & Obama”

  1. 1 Carole Cohen on March 2nd, 2008 1:18 am

    You are truly amazing! I see at least ten posts I had not read before plus the TIME article. You most definitely rock thank you for all this work. I better get reading!

  2. 2 JenSteer on March 2nd, 2008 11:22 am

    Thanks for the link. It’s not everyday I get mentioned in a blog I actually read. I know I am a little wide-eyed sometimes, but I hope I never stop getting excited about covering such a huge political event.

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on March 2nd, 2008 11:23 am

    Thanks for caring to read at all, Carole. Really. :)

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on March 2nd, 2008 11:24 am

    Jen – do not ever narrow the openness of your eyes. If you don’t care about being called naive, idealist or alone, you will be just fine, I am (well, most days!). :)

    Thanks for your work and I hope you’ll keep it going.

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