Dual scoreboards on live television flashed the U.S. House of Representatives' vote on a financial bailout and the Dow Jones industrial average. In the end, they both came up losers.
The nation's teetering economy played out in an extraordinary TV drama Monday. No one was certain about what would happen when those numbers finally stopped moving: at 228 to 205 against the bailout and a 777-point drop in the Dow.
"It was riveting," said Alexis Glick, anchor and vice president of business news for the Fox Business Network. "It was both a combination of fear and reality."
News networks showed a count of the House vote on a split …
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