- The 2008 Presidential Election provided a historic time in America’s relatively young past. CNN reported that, "voters were flocking to the most open election in half a century, inspired to support the first female president, the first black or the oldest ever elected."
- Barack Obama was elected the 44th President tonight and the foundations that our Founding Fathers laid so many years before have never been more obvious than through the voice of the people this late voting night.
- The demographics and election statistics spoke for themselves as CNN provided some of the most technologically enhanced polling commentary that I have ever seen. Their props and presentations consisted of touch screens, 3-D graphic visualizations, and Star Wars like holographic imaging during an interview.
- Glen Dickson of Broadcasting & Cable, forewarned us of such technological enhancements. However, I was amazed at the endless technological delicacies the audience was provided and I thought about the wonders those enhancements could provide in a courtroom setting.
- South Carolina remained the stereotypical red state it has for so many years and provided incumbents with relatively inconsequential challenges but challenges wrought with great hopes and ambition from their opposition.
- An all encompassing site to keep updated with South Carolina politics is the SC Hotline.