Barack Obama's landslide victory over the competition (in TV ratings, at least)

Good news for Barack Obama, horrible news for ABC and "Pushing Daisies:" Obama's infomercial trounced the most high-profile alternative programming.

(Are Chuck and Ned in body bags here? They might as well be.)

Nearly 10 million viewers watched Obama on NBC, with 8.65 million more on CBS and nearly 8 million on Fox. In all, 26.4 million tuned in to Obama's variety show on the broadcast networks; it also aired on a handful of cable networks, as well.

By contrast, "Pushing Daisies" - whose title may soon become a self-fulfilling prophecy - managed a mere 6.64 million viewers on ABC. It also came in fourth in the 18-49 demographic. That's down nearly 2 million viewers from its performance in the timeslot at this time last season. You'd think Ned'd touch the shows ratings to resuscitate them, but maybe he's already touched them twice so that's why they're dead.

Oh, and here's a shocker: Fox News ran more negative stories on Obama than the rest of the media - 40% of its stories were negative (only 40%?), as opposed to 29% in the rest of the media. Also shocking: MSNBC's negative Obama stories accounted for only 14% of its coverage, though it did manage to go negative on John McCain 73% of the time. But then, more than half of Fox News' McCain stories were negative, as well.