Posted on 11/04/2017 8:48:04 AM PDT by SMGFan
Election Night 1980 ABC News Coverage
at 1:14:51 wrongly declare Clinton re elected Gov
I have always wondered about that. The MSM was about the only media in town in those days.
They have always claimed that Carter's support collapsed just a day or two ahead of the election. That always sounded bogus...that huge of a collapse in just a day or two.
To this day I thought the MSM was doing its part to prop Carter up, the same as they have for every major Democrat in every election since and including 1960.
I read somewhere that Carter issued a tearful farewell to the White House immediate staff the morning of the election. He knew what was going to happen. The MSM must have too.
I was 19 years old at the time and still living at home. Early in the day I had proudly voted, for the first time, for Ronald Reagan. My mother who was a Jehovah’s Witness was not happy that I’d left that religion and voted. She saw my voting as the last nail in my coffin and the end to her hopes of me “living forever on a paradise earth”.
Had I been able to vote four years earlier I would have voted for Carter. Thank God for voting age limits!
Carter was told by his pollster, Pat Caddell a couple of days before that he would lose. He knew.
My dad referenced the 1980 election many times to me in the run up the Trump victory.
Back then he said the media were constantly up Carter’s a*s, dismissing Reagan and telling us he was a dummy actor.
Thankfully, the American people saw through the media bias then and last year.
[I was 19 years old at the time and still living at home. Early in the day I had proudly voted, for the first time, for Ronald Reagan.]
Same here. Graduated at 17 in June 1980, turned 18 on Oct. 26th of that year, ran out and registered and voted for Reagan in my first election.
A proud moment indeed and always a great memory. This country was in dire straits back then.
He brought along 9 Dem Senator + 3 Open D Senate seats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan%27s_coattails
But most of the freshman senators were failures in ‘86
Thanks for posting. I was 24 at the time.
it was day 366 of America Held Hostage. I was 16.
GOP gained 34 in House to 192 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1980
In the weeks leading up to the election, I advocated for Reagan 2-3 nights per week at the neighborhood gasthaus. I was 26, and spoke excellent German back then. I put my knowledge of history and civics to good use in these discussions with my neighbors.
The deciding blow was cast on Inauguration Day, when the hostages were released by Iran. Although these memories have faded, I'll never forget being asked to sit at the stammtisch, a table reserved for family and close friends of the family. It's an honor I cherish to this day.
Great story.
I’ll never forget the smile on everyone’s faces at home when he won.
Things were really bad back then and Carter just preached bad news daily.
I was across the street and a stranger, another young student, asked me if I wanted to go see the new president. I said yes on a whim. We went into the grand ballroom of the century plaza with our student backpacks full of books. He saw that people were showing tickets to get in to the election night festivities. He took out a piece of notebook paper and folded it into ticket shapes and flashed them quickly to get us into the ballroom. We were very early so we walked right up in front of the podium. Our backpacks were never searched and I never saw a metal detector. We stood feet away and watched all the show and speeches and were right there in front when president elect Reagan came up to speak.
Strangely serendipitous as years later I was working in that hotel’s kitchen and cooked for President Reagan.
Bttt
I was 20 years old and had no interest in polyticks at the time. But I do specifically remember the feeling that the grown-ups were rightfully back in charge.
Bookmark
My first election & pulled the lever for RR.
“But I do specifically remember the feeling that the grown-ups were rightfully back in charge”
EXCEPT in Minnesota!- one of the few states to vote for
Mon-Dull-and jimmy , a__ hole is still alive and screwing America and our state
keep asking why I stay-
You are entirely right. Reagan was well ahead, and the media narrative was there was a gigantic swing the last weekend. The GOP establishment went along with it.
Carter and the media pulled every trick in the book, including running a far left GOP globalist as a third party candidate to divide the vote. Instead, Anderson tapped into Carter’s vote, but even combined, the Carter/Anderson total wouldn’t have stopped the Gipper. He won NY and Mass twice.
Trump was only a few points away from winning Minnesota...let that sink in.
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