Like you, Brian, I don't do TV.

My wife and I raised three children from the early '80's onward, with no TV in the house.

Our strategy to promote literacy in their heads worked very well. All three graduated from University.

We are all readers. In this 21st-strategy, that translates to gathering text from sources that promote analysis.

We do Net an Amz for movies.

I have written and published four novels: Glass-half-Full, Glass Chimera, Smoke, King of Soul.

For this intense political season, I did mostly WashPo for news, Medium for improved literacy, Erick Erickson's newletter for reasonable, well-grounded Republian analysis.

But . . . and here's what I'm getting to--

I too did the CNN binge Nov 4, 5, 6.

My two takeaways about that (to supplement your commentary above):

* John King's virtuosity in explanation dynamics, stretched across entire days and evenings is:

Amazing--a wonder to behold.

* As impressed as I was with CNN reporting, I started to see red flags . . . long about Thursday evening or Friday, when the PA, MI, GA, NV, AZ returns, reflecting mostly late urban returns,

displayed Joe's galloping catch-up/overtaking, in all its dramatic glory EXACTLY AS KING AND BLITZER HAD BEEN PREDICTING.

Well what's so alarming about the, predicted inevitable lead change?

To the untrained eye--the drop-in viewer who might have wandered over from FOX or Rush or somesuch Townhall--IT LOOKED LIKE A SETUP!

It looked like a conspiracy.

CNN should have had a constant reminder on the screen that, even though their reporting seemed more like a horse-race than a nationwide vote-counting marathon, it was, in fact, a long-drawn-out reporting of ballots that had ALL been cast on or before Nov. 2--even the MAILED ballots.

But what is saddest of all: This scenario provided fertile ground for Republican fringe to sew chaos with complaints about the controversial MAIL-IN vote.

That chaos is still with us today, being cast, like tares among the wheat, by Rudy and Sidney and their pseudo-judicial wrecking crew.

What is tragic is: that pre-election Republican harassment at voting sites, and also GOP manipulations to consign voting to fewer sites . . . was, it seemed to me, a major reason that mail-in voting became so necessary for conducting a free and fair election.

Anyway, Brian, I too had a day or two of disorientation, having to recover from the CNN binge.

But I have gotten over it.