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This is it. Tomorrow, it’s over. I will miss this election more than you can imagine. It knows and has known no peer. It seems like it's been going on forever, perhaps because it has. I’m not one of those folks that claims to want it over or who feigns ennui. This election was nothing short of amazing. It’s been a boon for cable news and electoral pundits. I listened this morning to Joe Scarborough on “Morning Joe” describe every possible permutation that’s remotely conceivable. What if Virginia went blue? What if Ohio went Obama? What if Florida stayed red? What if the South hadn’t attempted to secede? What if Shelley Long hadn’t have left “Cheers”? I mean, they went four hours today. Why, you ask? Because they had to. As you probably have noticed, I find media coverage the derivative issue of every story: there's the story and how the media have covered it. I'll miss so much of the coverage.

I’ll miss John King from CNN and his magical electoral map. The bevy of “strategists.” Translation: either the allegedly hot chick who’s unemployed but is politically connected somehow or someone who fills no category whatsoever. Someone a booker had to nab on the fly. I can just imagine them in a room “strategizing.” Fill in the space with anything and anybody.

I’ll miss Tina Fey and her doppelgänger, Sarah Palin. Or is it the other way? I’ll miss using the word “doppelgänger” as much as I have. I’ll miss SNL being worth watching and will invariably revert to “Mad TV,” which is superior.

I’ll miss the soporific Chuck Todd, NBC’s political analysts. Chuck gives new hope to the terminally boring. What will I do with my time? What will Keith Olbermann do with, God willing, a Democratic President, House and Senate? Will he be able to cheer versus attack? I worry about him so. (And how about that Ben Affleck piece on SNL! Wow.) Will there be more special comments with an all-Democratic everything? God, I hope so. You see, while Republicans are so losers, in fact they hardly if ever lose, Dems are nescient as to this winning thing. Dems (versus Doze?) are great when royally PO'd, when affronted. When slighted or given short shrift (or short-sheeted, for that matter), Democrats go bonkers. How will they handle winning if, God willing, they win?

This election has been about more than the election. The means of data transmission and information dissemination is nothing short of immediate and plenary. Four years ago there was no YouTube or HuffPo. The transformation of news and opinion delivery has been nothing short of amazing. The term now is "content transmission." You'll see that, notwithstanding economic contretemps, newsrooms will be shuttered, newpaper staff whittled and the entire conglomerate of old-fashioned news and opinion delivery will be forever changed. Remember, the newspaper you purchase today is yesterday's news. It's per se obsolete. I can remember when working morning drive talk radio had as one of its main perks the fact that you got the papers first. My god, I'm ancient. It is nothing short of amazing when you see how far we've come. But, news delivery immediacy deosn't mean its filtered or edited or verified. Thank Zeus for the blogosphere . . . provided it's correct. Remember the Palin story that was floating around about her son being her grandson. Oops.

Look, I'd better pipe down. It sounds too much like the proverbial drape-measuring. Let's just leave it at that.

One more day.