So How About That Election?

It seemed very...anti-climatic, didn't it? I can't be the only person who thought so. I'll admit, I really tried to get invested in it, and it totally wasn't just because the group I'm in for this project is using the election as our topic. I had FOX News running on one TV, CNN on another, and occasionally flipped to MSNBC. I had Google Election on my laptop, and even put Phillip DeFranco's live online coverage of the election in another window. I had noted some very interesting observations. Predictable maybe, but interesting nonetheless.

First and foremost was the biased of the coverage I was watching. FOX was obviously very biased towards the more conservative candidate, Mitt Romney, and MSNBC was obviously very biased towards the liberal crowd. CNN was more in the middle, as they have been for the past few months, and everybody involved in the Phillip DeFranco Live show was pulling for an independent candidate, so there biases toward either major party wasn't really too great.

Some more stuff I noticed is that FOX News was actually getting their predictions in a lot faster than everybody else. Now this can mean two things. Either they're really good at predicting which candidate will win a state, or their really loose with their assumptions. Either way, it worked out in their favor that Tuesday night.

Although this wasn't exactly exclusive to election night, there were a fair number of times where news stations would show how many tweets a certain candidate was mentioned in. At times, they even had entire segments dedicated to this one subject. Now, I had some trouble considering this a legitimate subject to report on. The reason being because these tweets can mean anything. They never tell you how many tweets are positive thoughts praising a candidate, and vice-versa. That would take a considerable amount of researching, an impossible amount actually. The whole thing just isn't a very good source to report on, in my opinion.

At the end of the day however, I found myself looking at the winner and saying to myself, "Oh, okay." I feel like, if the results were any different, my reaction would have been exactly the same.