If Jon Stewart’s “Rally for Sanity” was successful, the success was short-lived. On election night — and particularly the cable-led coverage of it — the insanity returned.
The major broadcast and cable networks (and Comedy Central) devoted a combined 40-plus hours of coverage to the midterm elections on Tuesday.
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With no electoral college to worry about, the midterms should, in theory, be easier to follow than the general presidential election. But the overload of numbers, statistics, real-time-updated polls, holograms, interactive walls (CNN’s “Election Matrix”!!!) and competing chyrons make it a cornea-challenging event.