>>>>>No. I don't usually watch CNN and am tuned to local channels for results here. I did watch a bit early on to see the hologram stuff. Overall, Fox has by far the worst graphics. Even PBS is much better.
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>>>>>>Did you see the Will.I.Am hologram interview? cool... :o)
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>>>>I was checking differnet channels as well. Jon Stewart was hilarious. I thought BET's review of McCain's concession speech was the best. MSNBC was the most surprising. They refused to call the election longer than any other station I thought.
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>>>I think that's because for budget reasons (based on their ratings) they were relying on other networks for their data {g} The tip-off was when CNN was using holograms and MSNBC was using sock-puppets. ( would any station that could afford better hire Olberman ? )
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>>>>The election sure was close in NC!
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>>I always switch between all of the stations during the elections. I tend to watch CNN a bit more for their graphics (easy to see at a glance what the current status is). I enjoy watching the commentaries by the hosts and guests though because they really differ between the networks. Most surprising to me, was the reserve of MSNBC. BET had great coverage. Fox did a pretty good job. CNN always does the best election coverage IMHO.
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>>There were celebrations here. My daughter didn't want Obama to win, but she is torn between jubilation that we finally elected a black president (she wanted Hillary) and fear that he will put into place those policies she disagreed with. I told her welcome the world we all live in. She is a very strong liberal, but preferred Hillary's policies to Obama's. She agreed with many of Obama's views, but there were a couple she strongly disagreed with and those were important issues for her. We had a lot of discussions about Obama, Clinton, and McCain in this house. I voted for 6 democrats, 4 republicans, and 5 libertarians. Probably typical of most Americans :o) I don't know many who vote straight party ticket these days. There are still some who vote the party they have for years and the party their family voted without even looking at the issues, but those are fewer these days. Mostly older Americans I think.
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>>One of the things they did in Haley's school earlier on was to make lists of each candidate's voting record and choose a candidate based on their record to determine which one fell more in line with their own thinking. No one knew which record was for which candidate. At that time, the majority in the class chose Hillary. Girls and boys. They didn't know which candidate it was they supported until the results were in. Interesting.
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>Your daughter is very politically sophisticated if she had strong feelings about differences between HRC and Obama's policies. I was just trying to think of one and couldn't. I really don't remember policies as being the issue in the Dem primary but maybe I just didn't pay close enough attention. I have to admit that as I grow older listening to any form of political bloviation by candidates become too painful to bear.

Obama came in last because of that. However, it could have still gone with him in the lead but didn't. They were given phony dollars. $100 total money to spend and they had to apply however much of it they wanted towards the issues they felt the strongest about. $20.00 to this issue, $1 to another (depending on whether that issue mattered to them or not when it came to electing a president), $0 to issues they weren't concerned about the candidate's position on. Then they were shown which candidate they agreed with the most issues on and which candidate they agreed with the most based on their most important issues. Hillary won in both cases. McCain came in 2nd. That was amazing to me. I would think it would be a tight draw between Hillary and Obama. Of course, that was based on their voting history and not their stated policies. The teacher showed a chart of how many presidents either didn't implement their policies stated in their campaign or in effect did the opposite of their campaign statements. I don't remember the results of that, but it was a very large number so they didn't do their voting based on campaign promises. I always thought it would have been interesting to see the results based on campaign promises in a separate poll.