Journalists and Elections

Want to know who's a real journalist? Go hang around any newsroom on Election Day. Elections are like crack cocaine to journalists.....they want more, more, more, they can't get enough. And honestly.....it's not as fun in the newsroom as it is in the courthouse or the party watch night events.

I hate to date myself (yeah right, ha ha), but I used to love it when one reporter had to go to the courthouse and stand around as the paper ballots came in from the various precincts. Damn that was fun! The judges would have little unofficial slips of paper with vote counts, and they'd write them up on a movable chalkboard.....or in some counties, they'd use soap or tempera paint on the inside of the office window for the people hanging around outside. Then you'd dash to a pay phone (in the ancient days before cells), drop a dime and call the office, where somebody would do the same thing....write up a new total on a chalkboard or on the office window.

Ahhhhhh......well, enough of Memory Lane. Gotta say, the Whig's after-election issue is always good. Granted, they have lots of time to put it together, but even with that caveat, it's one of those issues that is fun to read closely, line by line, word by word.