Election night with over 70 million TV viewers

Even here in Barcelona, I was impressed to see so many stations (was it 3 or 4?) with coverage throughout the night. I flipped channels until around 2 AM or so and the local channels were still discussing every inch of the campaign and showing interviews and updates from Chicago and Arizona. On Wednesday morning the talk for the Americans over here was all about the election results but the same was true of the EMEA folks that I met. Even they talked about shedding a few tears as they watched Obama speak. I have not yet read any statistics for overseas yet but won't be surprised if similar ratings were experienced as well. It looks as though all news outlets did well, or at least almost all of them.

Joelle took Champagne to the office to toast with her coworkers and they ended up talking about the results and what they meant for the US and for France. That discussion went on for an hour, people were so excited. What an amazing day.