As I said in an earlier post, the only election-night coverage I watched was the Comedy Central special and Obama's speech on C-SPAN. This morning, though, I flipped back and forth between MSNBC and CNN while feeding and walking the floor with SteelyKid (when she's fussy, she won't tolerate me standing still to read blogs).
It's really amazing stuff. I think they managed to have negative information content. I actually feel dumber for the bits and pieces of commentary I saw before SteelyKid wound down and could be coaxed to go to sleep.
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