Hey, Professor of Government Stephen D. Ansolabehere, FM heard that you were an elections expert for CBS on election night. How did you feel when Barack Obama was declared the winner?
“We all stopped what we were doing, but we had a full plate of other races to call at CBS, so I was trying not to get too distracted because I had to deal with the senate and governor races and the remaining presidential races. At CBS, we knew that [the election] was going to turn to Obama at the 11 o’clock hour. When it was about 10:00 p.m. we had a discussion in the back room to make that call. So 11:00 p.m. was a little anti-climactic for us. The time that we really all stopped and listened was when he came on to give his speech.”
