The historic and at times surreal nature of the election has sprouted a cavalcade of TV pundits, coiffed and powdered and ready at a moment's notice to expound on the sublime (the finer points of health-care policy) and the ridiculous (Sarah Palin's $150,000 makeover). A genre of cable news programming has grown out of the political race, from CNN's Election Center (now Campbell Brown's No Bias, No Bull zone), to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show to Election HQ on Fox News. Cable and broadcast news divisions have seen record tune-in for political programming, stretching from the hard-fought Democratic primaries through the debates and beyond.
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