Posted on 11/04/2015 3:38:46 PM PST by SMGFan
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. The contest was between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent. Reagan, aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate.
bttt
It was a great night.
Fond memories of the next day all the teachers
at the local community college looking sick and mad.
The image that still sticks in my mind from that night was the sheer look of hatred on Rosalynn Carter’s face when Jimmy was conceding.
forgot how NBC knew it was over for their side at 630EST based on exit polls and gave Florida’s 17 EV to RWR.
Kept California voters home. 20 years later they called Fla before polls closed in West Fla and too many GWB voters stayed home .
The first presidential election I ever voted in.
Turned 18 the end of October and quickly registered for election day.
In any case, I dont think even Trump can beat clinton with all the fraud, illegals, idiot voters, and people who only care about "bread and circus"
Nice America we used to live in...
Ah, for the good old days when red, the communist color, was colored in for the states who went for the Democrat nominee. Somebody in the shadows slipped in a reversing of the colors. Amazing that the Repubs let them get away with it.
Meanwhile the idiot Jennings on ABC was calling the race too close to call in the hope that it would bring out more dims to vote for Jimmah.....even though ABC already knew that RR would win in a landslide.
First time I was punked on election night. I went to bed worried. Woke up the next day to the “landslide”. WTF? Jennings was such a liberal nut bag..
Funny I had an interview for a new job that day at Hughes Ground System Fullerton California ...
I went late in the day to interview and it ran long..
So I asked to cut it short so I could get to the polls before closing...
Thats when someone that toll me, it all ready been call for Reagen in a landslide....
I still left and voted
Good times!
Noticed Charleston Heston in the crowd too.
Me too... And to this day, I’ve never been more proud of a vote.
The graphics in those days were primitive as can be. But back then, they were considered state of the art.
If I'm not mistaken, the election coverage that night was held in Studio 4H and they had to kick out Saturday Night Live.
I disagree. Reagan was a FoRce! He was funny, and likable.
He would be loved today as much as before.
Undoubtedly the 1980 election was the high water mark of the conservative movement.
I was a college senior. I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning gleefully watching as one long standing liberal after another went down to defeat. What a great night.
I remember it well! I was bartending at a nice restaurant at the time, off on Tuesdays. I got a call from an acquaintance who managed another restaurant nearby, asking if I’d like to work a party after the election for some candidates, friends and backers. I took the gig.
It was supposed to start around 8:30, and I was set up by 8 in case of early arrivals. 8:30 came and went, then 9:00, then 9:30; nobody showed up. The manager was trying to reach the sponsor of the party, to no avail. Finally at quarter past ten he paid me the shift pay promised, asked me to clean up and go home. I left at about 10:40, and no one had shown up.
I later found out that it had been planned as a Democrat victory party.
I never asked him, but I hope the manager had gotten a deposit and a guarantee from them.
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