Comments on: Election News Coverage Winners

By: dan

dan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:59:48 +0000

John King and his electoral map really makes the difference for me.
By running through the states and the hypotheticals he is always an hour or two of what’s happening. If electoral votes were allocated by the percentage of popular votes in each state the election would be exciting and representative of how the vote is going. But really the stations just watch a few heavily populated counties and then call all of the state and all of its electoral votes for a candidate.

By: Rev. Hart

Rev. Hart — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:03:44 +0000

We were watching CNN here in Manhattan, and we had our windows open. The second that CNN announced Barack was president-elect, you could hear shouts of joy coming from the other buildings’ open windows, throughout the neighborhood. We’re on the 9th floor, so we could hear people in the streets below and in the apartments on many floors around us. It was totally awesome, and I remembered thinking, man, everyone must have had CNN on.