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I'm sorry my friend. It dragged on forever. It was a looong night. I had no idea it would be this big of a production. When I got there and found out the format I called home and the wife started calling everyone telling them the projected times they'd be cutting to us... but that didn't do you any good huh?It went like this. Had to leave home about 6:00 to be at the OSU campus studio before 7:00. They fed us. Then they asked us each the same 5 or 6 questions to gauge our positions going in. Then they had us sit in a room (a 3 camera set) that was like 100 degrees with all the studio lights and watch the whole address on a special feed that showed no commentary or even our own graph lines so we wouldn't be tainted by any particular coverage. That's a lot of sitting still in the glare of the lights not always knowing if they might be filming us just as background. Of course we knew when they were going to cut to us for comments.Then asked to stay as a group form after the speech until after 11:30 to do exit interviews for CNN and for the research group. Home after midnight.It was a good experience though. They feed us a big spread, paid for parking and gave us a lot of CNN swag at the end as we were leaving... CNN ball caps, T-Shirts those sorts of things.I can tell you this. We looked a whole lot more peaceful on camera than off. It was one of those group gatherings where just a couple of the 10 Republicans in our group discussions would try and bash our President using Glenn Beck as a credible source and the room would erupt in let's say rather noisy conversation. Over half of the Dems (including yours truly) would speak to that notion quickly. The Independents dismissed him as completely nonproductive (to be fair when asked they didn't particularly like any of the not straight news commentators Olbermann etc.) and the Republicans for the most part just didn't comment when things got out there in Beck land.Good but long and tiring night. But I felt it was important. I mean 30 people chosen to give the pulse of the nation on a national event... had to do it.
I'm sorry my friend. It dragged on forever.
It was a looong night. I had no idea it would be this big of a production. When I got there and found out the format I called home and the wife started calling everyone telling them the projected times they'd be cutting to us... but that didn't do you any good huh?
It went like this. Had to leave home about 6:00 to be at the OSU campus studio before 7:00. They fed us. Then they asked us each the same 5 or 6 questions to gauge our positions going in. Then they had us sit in a room (a 3 camera set) that was like 100 degrees with all the studio lights and watch the whole address on a special feed that showed no commentary or even our own graph lines so we wouldn't be tainted by any particular coverage. That's a lot of sitting still in the glare of the lights not always knowing if they might be filming us just as background. Of course we knew when they were going to cut to us for comments.
Then asked to stay as a group form after the speech until after 11:30 to do exit interviews for CNN and for the research group. Home after midnight.
It was a good experience though. They feed us a big spread, paid for parking and gave us a lot of CNN swag at the end as we were leaving... CNN ball caps, T-Shirts those sorts of things.
I can tell you this. We looked a whole lot more peaceful on camera than off. It was one of those group gatherings where just a couple of the 10 Republicans in our group discussions would try and bash our President using Glenn Beck as a credible source and the room would erupt in let's say rather noisy conversation. Over half of the Dems (including yours truly) would speak to that notion quickly. The Independents dismissed him as completely nonproductive (to be fair when asked they didn't particularly like any of the not straight news commentators Olbermann etc.) and the Republicans for the most part just didn't comment when things got out there in Beck land.
Good but long and tiring night. But I felt it was important. I mean 30 people chosen to give the pulse of the nation on a national event... had to do it.
