I was deeply troubled last night by the lack of election coverage from of all networks MSNBC. I thought that both CountDown and the Rachel Maddow shows were ill prepared to talk about election issues. I also thought it was a digrace for them to do a patch quilt of 5 minute live splashes intermixed with first hour reruns.

I thought that the New York-23 race was by far the most interesting, and I thought that MSNBC devoted only a thimble full of resources to it last night. I was very surprised that they had no live coverage up there at anytime during the day aas Rachel had live spots covering Question 1 in Maine. Also the only intellectually insightful remark about the whole race wasn't made until 12:15am by Former Mayor Willie Brown who remarked that political paradigms may not have shifted as democrats were led to believe in 08' and that Obama may be a oddity for the Democratic Party.

I would have expected several stories or in depth pieces about low voter turnout in both New Jersey and Virginia, How the Democrats are basically a Single Pitcher team (per Chris' constant mocking of politicians trying to buy the game as the Yankees buy Championships ) in Obama being the only draw to encourage clearly key dem constituencies out to the polls, identifying Obama's key accomplishments thus far or maybe even a more than mocking assessment of the TeaBaggers and if they actually might be a viable force some day.

Long and short, there were VERY good races and even better political issues that could have been covered last night, more so than the "9 Smartest Baseball Plays". Not only do we have to strategize on how to get young voters, or women voters or over 45 year old voters out, we also need to have a special boosting session to get our Media out to cover the damned election properlu!