Mrs. Matthews insisted on watching the election coverage last night. Personally, I would have preferred to watch Tosh.0 re-runs on Comedy Central because the elections played out so closely to what I (and the rest of the country) had been predicting for months. It was basically like watching a sporting event on TiVo after your iPhone already alerted you to the final score.
The inevitability of how things happened did not stop the pundits from droning on about how shocking these results were after weeks of warning that the Democrats were in for a bloodbath. Or, as The Colbert Report pointed out, they were being hammered by some variant of a surfing metaphor.