Election day 2008

Election Day 2008 was truly a day for history. The United States elected the first African-American president for office. On top of it, he won by a land slide. Throughout the night I found my self flipping back and forward through the three channels mainly. Those were CBS, ABC, and NBC. It was interesting to see how all three stations were going along the same theme for coverage just with a different appearance. The channels were set up similarly to a football or basketball draft it seemed like. I particularly like ABC’s coverage of the election. For the first couple hours in which they were in the studio with ten or so huge plasma screens all displaying different things was a really cool way to approach the election information. It felt as if someone was giving a presentation with a well done power point. The large interactive touch screen that was being used to break down the states voting information was really neat. It was extremely interactive and I could see some Web 2.0 in it as well.

As for my friends, the majority of them were doing the same thing as me. They were watching it on television from their home and they were all watching the same channels as well. There were a lot of election parties that friends of mine were attending as well. Only one or two friends were following along with the election via internet because they had classes at night. The majority of my friends did early voting or mail in ballots because they either did not want to wait in line on Tuesday or because they had mailed in an absentee ballot to the state they were registered in. I mailed my ballot in about a week before the election in order to avoid lines as well. As far as my family members, everyone that I talked to all did early voting or mail in ballots as well. None of them went to the booths yesterday for mainly the same reasons as me.