[burghguy]

Good article, but it mentions that Humphrey won the popular vote in 2008 by 2 million votes. I don’t remember that being the case. Didn’t Nixon win but a small margin?

[Vigilanteman]

Don't forget that in those days, most elections were conducted honesty. Some Democrat heavy precincts tried to be among the first to report in order to gain up a bandwagon atmosphere for polls which were still opened.

With far less sophisticated tools than we have today, networks would actually declare states earlier than the do today. I was a kid in 1968, but seem to remember that the cliffhanger earlier in the evening was called by my central time zone bedtime.

[midlander]

There are many on Free Republic that could easily answer your query. Guess I mentally gave up on keeping the right thing true a time back. Our press turns things in untrue ways. of course it is a matter of brain washing, poor teaching of history, etc.
Sadly it has worked to/ on the people at large usually too busy to follow truth, or even know if it is truth, or opinion, it is a fuzzy line often.

God Bless America.