[DallasBiff]

I remember 1980, and the msm were all saying that the election was neck and neck, and Reagan won a 44 state blowout.

I see simalaraities to 2024, I know vote fraud and ballot harvesting. The Trump campaign should still campaign that they are behind.

Flame away.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s too hard to go back to the old Rush archives. I’d like to purchase them on a flash driver when I’m in an old folks home.

[Dan in Wichita]

NBC's coverage of 1980 Election Night is available on YouTube. Within a couple of minutes of going on the air, John Chancellor reported (paraphrasing here) "We expect Governor Reagan to have a good night tonight." Essentially, NBC called the election for Reagan right away.

Even if we are blessed with a blowout Trump win on the evening of November 5, the media will never call the race for Trump ala 1980 (or 1984).

[Wayne07]

"Yet the last polling data going into the election in 1980 had Jimmy Carter winning by nine points."

This is a total myth. Carter had been up early in the election cycle, but Reagan pulled ahead after the debates. Polls showed Reagan ahead, and his win was not a surprise at all. The last three polls before the election all showed Reagan up by 10+ points.

[SamAdams76]

I remember the 1980 election very well as it was the first election I was old enough to vote in.

Having grown up in Massachusetts, I was a Democrat by default. I remember celebrating Jimmy Carter's win in 1976 as a 14 year old paperboy. When the copies of the Boston Herald landed on my doorstep at 5am to deliver, they still did not have a decision but my radio told me Carter was announced the winner at around 3:30am so I was literally dancing down the streets in the pre-dawn darkness as I made my deliveries.

What can I say? I was a naive kid.

Four years later, I started to realize what a bad president Carter was. Reagan did not yet appeal to me so I was going for John Anderson, who ran as an Independent as a Reagan alternative.

But one thing I will always remember, and this was the turning point of me becoming a conservative, was the Labor Day weekend speech by Reagan on the New Jersey shore, right across from the Statue of Liberty. As the boats waving American flags bobbed in the waters behind him, Reagan gave a very inspiring speech that still sticks with me today. One of the top songs in that time was "Sailing" by Christopher Cross and that song always reminds me of Reagan's Labor Day speech just outside of NY harbor with all those boats waving the American flags.

[cowboyusa]

NBC NEWS NATONAL POLL: Tie.

[MinorityRepublican]

The best Trump can do is repeating 2016 plus winning a state or two no one would have predicted (VA? NM?).