Blacks at Cleveland Ward 8 debate watch party hosted by Councilman Johnson, Johnson, other Black elected officials say Obama won first presidential debate over Romney, political strategist Arnold Pinkey predicted anti-Obama debate polls at RTA union rally with Rep. Fudge, Michelle Obama's brother at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio 2 days before the debate, Amalgmated Transit Union National President Larry Hanley, who is RTA's national union president, spoke at union rally
United States President Barack Obama (left), the Democratic Nominee for President, and Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson, whose ward club sponsored a watch party for the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. Johnson is one of nine Black council persons out of 19 that represent the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson , the head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University . Robinson spoke at a get out the vote rally with U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), other Black Cleveland area elected officials, Black clergy, community activists and local and national union leaders of the Regional Transit Authority's Amalgamated Transit Union at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Oh. on Oct 2, the first day of early voting in Ohio, a pivotal state By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleve