MSNBC's coverag on election night

The 2008 election ended up being a landslide victory for the now president-elect Barack Obama. While John McCain showed fight and hope early, once Obama won Ohio the election was basically his.

MSNBC’s coverage of the election showed and predicted everything just as NBC did, but that was a good thing. After Obama won Ohio they showed that with an inevitable victory coming in California he would only need five more electoral votes and how he surely had that and more to come.

They also constantly updated all the other races constantly as did all the other networks. They also, kept showing the updated red/ blue map of the United States as more and more states were declared. On their website, they also, had the same map and a list of all the other races.

MSNBC’s coverage of the election was very good in an election where it wasn’t very difficult after the first couple of hours to predict who would win. They called states as soon NBC called states. Their analysts shifted quickly to what an Obama win meant for both candidates and did a good job focusing on the senate races and control of congress as soon as Obama won and it became clear he would win. In the end, MSNBC’s coverage was a winner just like Obama.