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By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog
CLEVELAND,Ohio-In Cleveland, Oh., where Ohio is a pivotal state that will likely decide the upcoming election, presidential debate watchers that gathered Wednesday night to capacity at the Ward 8 community office of Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson in the predominantly Black city's Glenville neighborhood said President Barack Obama was a winner over Mitt Romney.
That posture, no doubt, is contrary to mainstream America and a CNN poll that found that Romney beat Obama 67 percent to 35 percent, a poll that political pundits said was admittedly skewed with Republicans.
Held in Denver, Colo at the University of Denver, the first presidential debate of the 2012 election was moderated by Jim Lehrer, 78, a prominent journalist and frequent debate moderator who is accused of letting it go off course with Obama and Romney making long speeches rather than timed responses in a continual fashion.
It covered domestic policy issues such as tax platforms, green energy, and education, and the federal budget and deficit.
"The president was the winner," said Councilman Johnson, a Clevelander and one of 13 all Black Obama delegates from Ohio's majority Black 11th congressional district to the since done Democratic National Convention held last month in Charlotte, NC.
Johnson did not give Obama a slam dunk but he said that his incumbency in a close debate took him over the edge to win it.
State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), a Cleveland Democrat, agrees.
"If we base the debate on facts, truths, and informative data," the president won," said Patmon.
Those at Johnson's debate watch party ate fried chicken, potato salad, and collard greens, compliments of the councilman and his ward club.
At times you could hear a pin drop in the room.
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog(www.clevelandurbannews.com)
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com
