I watched CNN's live feed online. It seemed that they knew the whole time that Obama had won the election. One problem I had is that the online map that showed what states were voting was very inaccurate. I had to keep refreshing the page to get the updates and some of the percentages that the states were projecting made no sense. The percentage would say that one of them was winning but the other one would not be checked. I think that for this particular type of coverage you would want to definitely be watching the live feed.

The only problem that I had with the live feed was that it wasn't projecting a tally in the corner of the screen. I wish I could have stayed up to watch the coverage of the final announcement but it was pretty obvious around 10 so I wasn't really worried about it. I don't really think that there is much rhetoric to discuss in this type of coverage. I feel like just about any of the stations are going to have a biased portrayal for the winning candidate. I should have watched FOX News to see if they looked sad throughout the election.

I think that rhetoric takes a backseat in live coverage that is this exciting. It is hard to tell whether the reporter is presenting in a credible manner or what kind of rhetoric they are using when you are just waiting for the next state to be displayed.