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I am personally impressed with how the Internet is replacing (or has replaced) the role that the television networks have played in the past in reporting the elections. I recall in 1960 gathering around the TV and listening to the radio to hear the election results come in from various parts of the country.

This election, on the other hand, I could check for state results by going to some of the state election boards and reading the results as they were reported. There also were several US maps on the net which reported voting results at least as quickly as the networks. An extra added benefit was that I didn't have to listen to the people with $35 haircuts and 15 cents worth of brains spinning the results. One map even tinted the states according to which candidate was leading which quickly indicated how the voting tallies were going in that state.

About the only thing this presentation didn't show was which were the Democrat and Republican districts that reported in a state, so you could do your own prognostications as to how the state would vote.

The network's predictions as to who won a state's electoral college votes became superfluous. I could use my own judgment and experience to make the call.

I actually started to feel sorry for the networks. They had millions of dollars of capital equipment in use and hundreds of professional staff reporting the results and the Internet was doing an equal or better job.

So what about the future? I think that we are standing on the brink of an exciting time. No longer will we have to rage over incorrect and biased reports by the networks. Hopefully, we will be able to find the correct info on the Internet.