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!
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.
Thanks for posting. I was 24 at the time.
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.