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I began watching the election coverage on NBC and then I switched to
MSNBC. NBC used fancy, colorful graphics and charts when projecting a
winner in a particular state. MSNBC was more straightforward, not using
a lot of glamour in their telecast. I find myself attracted to the
graphics and the different ways stations show their information. One new
way of displaying the results was on a building(it was either in New
York or D.C.) where a window washer type apparatus that raised with the
number of electoral votes Kerry or Bush had. Each one had lights
highlighting blue or red on the building for each candidate. It is so
addicting watching the returns even though I knew there was a slim chance of
knowing who was our next president at the end of the night.
What interests me is how most states, except the nine battleground
states, are predictable before the polls even opened. These nine states
make or break a campaign and as we saw it can even come down to a certain
county of Ohio to call a winner either way.