SUPER TUESDAY SPECIAL
---Alicia C. Shepard
For months NPR's election team has been gearing up for the biggest day of primaries and caucuses in the history of American presidential elections. Tuesday evening, Studio 4 A, NPR's largest, was transformed into "election central" with four projector screens, dozens of computers and more than 50 people.
At the center of the quiet room was a raised black-skirted platform where All Things Considered hosts Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, headsets on, sat on black folding chairs anchoring the first half of NPR's live eight-hour broadcast.
The only chance to get up would be the one minute or 90-second breaks built into the time clock that allows local stations to cut in. "No time for bathroom breaks," noted Siegel.
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02- 6-2008
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