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Even though it was Election Eve, NBC and CBS could not resist playing a game of turning points. What had been the decisive factors in shaping the General Election race? NBC's Andrea Mitchell and CBS' Bob Schieffer (at the tail of the Greenfield videostream) both pointed to Barack Obama's decision to raise his own funds rather than relying on federal grants, with their spending limit. CBS' Schieffer and NBC in-house Republican analyst Mike Murphy (at the tail of the Ford videostream) both reckoned that the selection of running mate Sarah Palin had harmed John McCain. NBC's in-house Democratic analyst Harold Ford gave credit to Chairman Howard Dean for running that party's 50-state strategy rather than focusing exclusively on swing states. NBC's Mitchell called Obama's technology--texting, myspace, facebook--"the first of the C21st campaigns."
For NBC's White House correspondent David Gregory (at the tail of the Mitchell videostream) there was one factor above all that has been crucial in this election. "He is everything," Gregory declared, referring to George Bush, "the albatross around John McCain's neck."
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