Beyond the candidates, some other assorted winners and losers from last night.
1) Twitter managed an election-night load of traffic and didn't fail.
2) Poll trackers like Nate Silver, TPM's Polltracker and Electoral-vote.com, took on the conventional wisdom of many pundits â€" and came out on top. Their success, as many of them would admit, rest of the relative accuracy of the polls themselves in this election. On Fox News, even Megyn Kelly, the co-anchor, admitted Tuesday night that the polls largely held.
3) Megyn Kelly â€" again â€" turned what could have been a Walk of Shame into one of the evening's most compelling pieces of television. After Karl Rove complained on the air that Fox News had called Ohio too early, Ms. Kelly took a walk through the studio into the backroom where the channel's decision desk was housed and interrogated her own polling experts.
4) Local television stations reaped a windfall in advertising dollars because of the unp recedented spending unleashed by the Citizens United court decision.
5) ABC suffered through a blackout in the middle of its election broadcast.
6) A local news anchor in Ohio said “she had no choice†about taking part in an anti-Obama special that aired on several Sinclair Broadcast Group stations.
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