Comments on: [update] Remains of the Day, Election 2008 Edition, 10/19/08

By: Ben K

Ben K — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:37:09 +0000

Palin and McCain do disagree on things. Biden and Obama disagreed on whether on Obama is ready to be President. In my mind, that kind of overshadows everything else.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:03:50 +0000

Hi Lisa Renee – thanks for both the comments – I’m sorry you seem to imply that this was an intentional slight. Here’s how this post (and all the Remains’ posts) got put together: It is, literally, the tabs leftover.

In the case of the rally, I had no tab for it. BUT! I did have two tabs open on Perrysburg. I’d been wanting more info on the area, so I googled “Perrysburg Ohio” and the link to the rally came up (you can see in the first screenshot the word “perrysburg” in the description of where to get tickets I think) and you can see that the word “perrysburg” is bolded – because that’s what I was searching and I’d taken the screenshot directly from the Google results page.

Contrary to what I’m guessing you are implying, though you can correct me if I’m wrong in my inference, you can see from that item # (#9) that the item is indeed about Perrysburg and the Obama office opening. That was a post I saw on Ohio Daily Blog a couple of days ago – and the tab for it was still open so that’s how it ended up in this post. Very few results came up that really helped me know more about Perrysburg in just the one or two passes I did last night.

I didn’t have the McCain event in any open tabs – it was not on my radar. And certainly with coverage from you such as you provide, I could never do it justice. But regardless, the fact that I was in search of news on the town and that rally came up seemed…like a juxtaposition to me. So there it is. Esp. at whatever late hour for me it was.

But, as far as any kind of intentional slight, as implied by these comments:

“It’s funny that…” and the second comment too?

Nope. Nothing of the kind. I’d picked up on someone remarking about the Obama office – when I googled “perrysburg” in Google news, the McCain event came up.

That’s it.

You know I wouldn’t post on a McCain event unless I had to, now! (sarcasm)

By: LisaRenee

LisaRenee — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:26:37 +0000

As a ps – the McCain event in Toledo was not scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. it was scheduled at 3:15 p.m. Which could be an additional reason the link you stated you found was pulled – it was way off. There was no google cache to be able to see what the original story was about. It also does not make any sense to directing people to the Wood County location when the event was held in Lucas County…Wood County was not the office that was given the majority of tickets for this particular event.

By: LisaRenee

LisaRenee — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:18:07 +0000

I went to the McCain event today, unlike the recent Obama event in Toledo, someone actually wanted to make sure I had tickets.

I think the 7,000 number was low, 10,000 tickets for the event were printed, I’d estimate from the number of seats/rows and then those standing it was closer to 8,000 at the same venue that the Obama campaign opted to only allow a little over 3,000 at. (That I was not invited/given a ticket for else I would have covered that).

It’s funny that you linked to a problem with WNWO which was related most likely to an update in their story but didn’t notice any of the other media coverage from Toledo, including my blog on it. Which was up way before the posting time of this article on your blog at 12:19 a.m. My story as an example was posted at 8:08 pm. There was a huge amount of coverage up prior to that…