Two presidential candidates visited the Twin Cities yesterday, with a third on the way today.
The Star Tribune's coverage of these visits devotes comparable real estate to each candidate. (If anything, the online coverage seems to favor Mitt Romney over Barack Obama in the number of images and their relative prominence.)
 photo: Brian Peterson, Star Tribune |  photo: Jennifer Simonson, Star Tribune |
Romney had a crowd of several hundred gathered in the lobby of an office building in Edina. Barack Obama filled the Target Center, twenty thousand strong. If pixels were instead allotted based on the event participants, it would alter the picture rather dramatically.
(Pixels aside, the Strib's coverage did do a good job of conveying the incredible support for Obama. And I'm certainly in favor of equitable coverage for a broad spectrum of candidates and their views, not scaled to an editorial board's view of their political chances.)
So even if political rally turn-out is no barometer of polling behavior, I'm still left saying Barack On!
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