Election day party's the new thing????

During the election day I talked to alot of other students in my class and I was suprised to find out that alot of people took the opperitutnity to vote early instead of going to the polls. The main reason most of them staed was the fact that they didnt want to stand in line to vote and they just wanted to go get there free Starbucks. I also found it intersting that alot of people I talked to and all of my friends where going to some form of election party. I just thought that was cool because during the 04 election I dont remember attending or my friends talking about going to an election day party. I went to the the cable center here on campus to watch the election coverage. For those of you that werent there they had CNN, NBC, Fox, And ABC all up at the same time but i mostly focused on CNN......to be honest I just liked there graphics better then the other stations. I also went to there wed site which I liked alot because once again the graphics but they had all of the election results all graphed out for me from senate, house, governer, and ballet measures by state just to name a few. I also found it intresting that they compaired the 04 election results with the 08 election results. CBS also did something like that but i dont think there web site is as fun as CNN.