So, on this night when so many are glued to their televisions, and some to their radios, and many to the net, it's worth noting on our historically minded page that this is a new thing.
A century ago only the audiences of a single radio station in the US tuned in for live coverage of the General Election. And it wasn't that live. Even though Harding won a land slide the newspapers of that day. . . and the next, didn't have the winner, only a projection.
I don't know that this was different following FDR's 1932 election, but it probably was. Even at that however, a lot of people didn't really know who had won elections until the following morning newspapers.
Television has changed all of that, and with it, our expectancies.
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