Filling the hours

For cable news, today offers a dilemma, albeit a good one: Lots of politics to talk about, and lots of time to fill before official returns come in. So in addition to calling out the talking heads, the cable channels have been venturing far and wide for features. On the Fox News Channel, political correspondent Carl Cameron has been filing grainy, pixellated dispatches, the sort you usually see during reporting from war zones. (It serves as a fitting metaphor.) He's been riding in the network's "ElectionLink" trucks, a two-month-old innovation that allows him to file through a high-powered streambox instead of the standard satellite link.

Meanwhile, a CNN correspondent sent reports this morning from Kenya, where she interviewed Barack Obama's grandmother and uncle. And this afternoon, MSNBC interviewed the real-life "Obama Girl." It goes to show: Anyone can be a pundit these days.