Election coverage creates its own debates

The TV networks want your viewership for tonight’s election coverage. But who wins in a politically-split house?

A few of my friends live in the same house, and given their political ideologies, I’m not quite sure how both of them have survived during this election year. Every time I pass by their house, I half expect a hollowed out crater signifying that a nuclear war had indeed occurred.

The fight for control over the remote tonight will earn praise from Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

One friend wants Fox News. The other wants just about anything else.

Election coverage has become a staple in my life ever since I stayed up into the early morning hours in 2000, switching from station to station to see who had been pegged as president.

Everybody had their own take.

The one that called the vote right first, however, was Fox News. For all the people who decry the network’s “Fair and Balanced” slogan, they at least got the facts straight.

But then again, watching election coverage is just as much about the personalities as it is the information. When I’m watching election night, Wolf Blitzer of CNN and Tom Brokaw of NBC come to mind.

My friends probably won’t agree on which channel to watch. One of them probably won’t be alive tomorrow. But I’ll at least give them credit for waiting this long to act on a murderous political rage. All this can be avoided, though.

My solution — buy a second TV.