Politics
#nprmeetup: Election Night 2012 at NPR HQ
On November 6, the NPR Social Media team hosted 31 bloggers, professionals, and journalists to experience election night in the Washington, DC office. Our guests came from all over the U.S. to blog, tweet, and even sketch the election results and reactions as they came in. Here's what we were up to:
- The confluence of laptops, smart phones, and tablets required quite a bit of power...
That is a lot of cable to ensure that we're connected to the internet. Love the @npr IT green shirts. #nprmeetup http://pic.twitter.com/EBt9AiUq
Power cord mashup. More than two dozen citizen journalists working at NPR HQ #nprlife #nprmeetup http://pic.twitter.com/4xGJZMPm- some serious keyboard action in the #nprmeetup war room. Can feel the #blogger & social media intensity buil instagr.am/p/Rtix6qARo0/
- Guests kept the group apprised of the latest results, late into the night:
Florida still close, Obama wide margins in Miami-Dade county. Who's willing to bet money? #nprmeetup #election2012- Democrats keep control of the Senate, will pick up some more! #nprmeetup #election2012
Now that Cali with 55 votes has been called, the current count is: Obama, 234; Romney, 193. #election2012 #nprmeetup
Reports coming from Maryland say that Question 4 has passed, the #Maryland #DreamAct is a REALITY! #immigration #NPRMeetUp
Lots of banter on the @NPR live show about not calling this and other networks have called it. #nprmeetup
NPR calls Wisconsin for Obama, which puts him at 275. Race officially over. #nprmeetup
New Hampshire goes all-female re: first congressional delegation, all women - US Senate, congressional reps and governor -awesome #nprmeetup
The Election has been called by @NPR here in #DC - 4 more years for @BarackObama #NPRmeetup http://pic.twitter.com/mDpMIuty- The president calls for unity in his acceptance speech. "We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation." #nprmeetup
- We were luck enough to have Wendy MacNaughton in-house to sketch both the #nprmeetup crew and the NPR reporters/producers holding down the fort in Studio 4A:
Resident artist of #NPRMeetUp, @wendymac, drawing away outside @NPR studio http://pic.twitter.com/Owj5ttkw- Cartoonist @wendymac was working at @nprnews during our election coverage, and I got doodled! #election2012 #nprmeetup instagr.am/p/Rt72bgC4wA/
- Hard at work at @jwinslowpoole last night. S/O to @WendyMac for the awesomeness! #art #drawing #sketch #nprm instagr.am/p/RvJLj2rk_Y/
Love this - live-sketching of #nprelection coverage @wendymac #nprmeetup bit.ly/SovjOZ http://pic.twitter.com/Xy5iGzAE
