A Friend, A Restaurant Patron, A Hack

Big ups to our good friend T'OD over at CC, who was recently quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle as an Ohio citizen-on-the-street:

Across the street from the Ohio statehouse is a lunch spot called "San Francisco Oven,'' which boasts "A taste of the Bay Area.'' Inside, patrons offer opinions that reveal a diversity that would be hard to find in Northern California.

"President Bush has done a great job,'' Terrence O'Donnell, a 28-year-old attorney, said over lunch on Friday. "I have no doubt the nation is safer.''

His lunch companions are split. One is for Kerry, the other is for Bush.

"I'll tell you why Ohio is even,'' O'Donnell said. "People are more open minded here than in other parts of the country.''

Nice job, bro. Of course, it should have said "a 28-year-old Republican lobbyist who will be working the polls for the Republican party on election day, challenging the qualifications of liberal-looking voters in an effort to disrupt the voting process." But this is Olde Media. We don't really expect them to do background.