I have finally figured out the reason this has run on for soon to be six hours instead of being over in four.
Really, I figured it out all by myself.
It is really so obvious once we know that Obama has a speech planned for prime time tonight.
They had to extend it to be in prime time, and....
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They have to have three extra hours to load the text in the teleprompter.
Nobody will be watching. In the past when Obama blabbed ratings went down.