It isn't that often that a federal election campaign gets blown off the top of newscasts for days on end, but these are not normal times.

The events in Washington are turning into this generation's version of the Cuban Missile Crisis and seem to be taking about as long to play out.

Mix in presidential politics and you have something resembling the perfect political storm — and an incredibly compelling drama with the potential to touch the lives of millions, if not billions of people.

So it's no surprise that Canadians are watching developments in the U.S. and Canada. And Canada's politicians are looking for an angle on the economy.

Here in the election room, TVs are flipping back and forth from Newsworld, to the election pool feeds, from the leader campaigns to CNN.

The smart ones have the quad-split up on the tube — four television feeds synched into one channel.

— David Taylor