Election Night

I don't think I've ever seen as many anchors cry over news they are reporting as much as they did after President-elect Barack Obama officially won at 11 p.m. on Tuesday night.

The networks were celebrating (except for Fox, who as John Stewart said is probably sitting shiva at the moment) and all talked about how he was going to change America. The one thing that I actually thought was most interesting was how they used technology.

MSNBC used more 3D graphics than anyone I've ever seen as they had a digital senate showing which ones went blue and which were red. But CNN far outdid anyone, especially with that hologram of Jessica Yellin. 

The only problem I had with it is that it takes away from some of the atmosphere, although there was a combination of the hologram and live footage of Grant Park, so I had no problem with it. In addition, they used that touch-screen map to show how McCain and Obama were doing.

The interesting part that came out of that was where they went to traditionally conservative parts of any state at random and the deficit that Obama was losing to McCain was always marginally smaller than Kerry to Bush.