Election Night and The President Elect or Reject

     The change was not only in the campaign slogans this election year, and I am not referring to a political party bias.  Aside from the extended wait in line so I, too, could perform that one great patriotic duty that most people use as the excuse to get out of just about anything (I was in my district’s line for 3 hours of excitement) CNN’s coverage seemed more like a sci-fi movie of epic proportions.

     Short of telling us the reason gas prices have slipped back down to normalcy is due to it being made of the same material as soylent green, election night CNN was pulling out every other piece of technology not yet revealed to its jaw-dropping viewers (The way this sentence is phrased insinuates that there's something about the viewers that is jaw-dropping. MA).  The senate seats won and their percentages were displayed by means of a full-color 3D display that looked more like a view of the Death Star than voting results.  The Star Wars references don’t cease there however, with a hologram of famed Obama supporter and hip-hop crossover aficionado Will.I.Am in just the same manner as Obi-Wan.  Of course there was all sorts of poking fun at the new tech being used by both interviewer and interviewee, but considering how it put the other broadcast networks to shame visually, no one at CNN headquarters were laughing about the way things looked.

     Across the board, no matter the network, the shots of Grant Park in Chicago (Obama’s hometown) seemed like scenes from any number of films with immense CGI crowds.  At that point, regardless of said political affiliation, McCain’s rally in Phoenix just didn’t seem to have the same epic appeal.  Whether or not this was totally due to media bias or not (some may argue the point of Fox News in Rupert Murdoch’s back pocket), there were a lot more views of Chicago’s famed site than there were of “somewhere” in Phoenix, Arizona.  The excitement just wasn’t there in the shots.

     Around 10:00pm CST CNN projected Senator Barack Obama as President Elect.  In what cut short Will.I.Am’s holographic interview, the projection shot through not only Grant Park but also the student center at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where I was watching the surreal scene play out.  In what (You start two sentences in a row with 'In what' and may want to rephrase at least one of them. That's kind of nitpicky, sorry. MA) I can only describe as a room full of primarily (some may solely) liberal students clapping and screaming as if the Death Star itself had just been blown up (Watch your hyphenation; you don't really need it as often as you think. MA) because of a hole no bigger than a womp rat.

     At precisely 10:18pm CST Senator John McCain entered the stage at his rally site to concede to Barack Obama.  The panning shots not only regarding the crowd at the site, but the audience reaction itself were less than polite.  Depending on how good the stereo system was where you were viewing this, the boos and hisses seemed less and less directed at the situation and more at Senator McCain himself.  I can’t directly infer one way or another, but I’ve heard from viewers from all over what I could have sworn I, too, heard (I would cut this sentence. MA).  Lots (The hyphen thing applies to apostrophes, too. MA) of barely audible curses to the name of the once championed Republican candidate.  Senator John McCain remained calm and vowed to support Barack Obama regardless of the campaign.

     When President Elect Barack Obama took stage in Grant Park to a crowd of what seemed like the entire planet, his response to McCain’s concession was less than sincere.  The more pertinent issue at hand seemed to be trying to get through his election speech in a feasible matter in what (In what in what in what. MA) seemed like one of the shortest election nights in a long while.   The comment regarding his daughters getting a new puppy to accompany them to the White House could serve as evidence to this, and startled or not, probably could have been left out (Contrary to this, I think the mention of his daughters and their new dog is the kind of thing that adds to his appeal. He could be a standard sleazy politician and have said something that translated to 'Haha, assholes, thanks for the title.' But instead, he just presented himself as a legitimately thankful person who could have just not given a shit about his kids throughout his race, but instead kept up his fatherly duties while he was trying to, you know, win the presidency. JUST SAYIN'. MA)

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