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Reagan's Epic Victory Over Mondale On Election Night 1984
YouTube ^ | 03/24/2021 | Jim Heath Channe

Posted on 04/11/2026 12:16:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

Video Title: Reagan's Epic Victory Over Mondale On Election Night 1984 Channel: Jim Heath Channel (uploaded March 24, 2021; ~2.16 million views)

Short Summary This ~historical compilation video shows raw footage from the 1984 U.S. presidential election night, capturing Ronald Reagan's massive landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter Mondale. It highlights the speed and decisiveness of the results as networks projected state after state for Reagan in real time. Key Details

Final Electoral Vote: Reagan won 525–13 — one of the most lopsided presidential elections in U.S. history. Reagan carried 49 out of 50 states. Mondale only won his home state of Minnesota (by a razor-thin margin of about 3,761 votes) and the District of Columbia. The video features professional, straightforward reporting from anchors like Peter Jennings, with quick calls for Reagan across the map and very little suspense after the early evening projections. It portrays the night as a true “American presidential wipeout,” showing the contrast between early hopes for Mondale and the rapid realization of a Reagan sweep.

The footage emphasizes the era’s more unified national consensus and old-school, relatively unbiased election-night broadcasting style. No full transcript is publicly detailed, but the video mainly consists of archived network coverage with minimal narration — letting the historic broadcast speak for itself.

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KEYWORDS: 1984; epicvictory; mondale; reagan

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Great to watch Reagan win Vermont, California, Wisconsin, Washington State, Oregon and all what we now call “deep blue states” outside Minnesota.
1 posted on 04/11/2026 12:16:51 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

imho ….. a mere 40 + years and election fraud currently is swept under the.lamestream.


2 posted on 04/11/2026 12:22:11 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: SmokingJoe

The moment that Mr. Reagan affirmed that he wouldn’t use Mr. Mondale’s youthful age as an argument against him, the dems should have folded up their tent and gone home.


3 posted on 04/11/2026 12:51:52 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: SmokingJoe

The epic re-election of Ronaldus Magnus was included in one of Sam Kinnison’s funniest routines.

Or rather, the EPIC trouncing of the democRAT Mondale.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9DdTXxDFU


4 posted on 04/11/2026 1:39:03 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

One of the greatest. And, oddly enough, clean (even if it is ghastly).

Even if you were one of the four or five Mondale fans, you GOTTA say that’s funny.


5 posted on 04/11/2026 4:46:53 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: SmokingJoe

The shame was Reagan did not spend more time campaigning to get more Senate seats or denting back the House losses from the 1982 midterms. The campaign team was focused on winning all 50 states.


6 posted on 04/11/2026 4:51:59 AM PDT by tellw (ed)
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To: no-to-illegals

There is an ebb and flow to electoral politics. Nixon in ‘72 and Reagan were clear examples. The left clearly decided to short-circuit this phenomenon in recent decades through election fraud. They intend for permanent, one party rule. They have established this in several states already, including California.


7 posted on 04/11/2026 5:34:54 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Even Mondale laughed when he said that, or at least cracked a grin. A different time.


8 posted on 04/11/2026 5:36:24 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: SmokingJoe

Yes, it was monumental. Mondale won his home state by a hair. Kudos, Ronald Reagan.


9 posted on 04/11/2026 5:55:07 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: SmokingJoe

Several well respected political observes have said that if Reagan had made one or two more appearances in Minnesota, he would have carried that state too!


10 posted on 04/11/2026 5:58:09 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Mondull later said he knew it was over at that moment. Age was the only thing they had on Reagan and he shot that down with that epic line.


11 posted on 04/11/2026 5:58:32 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SmokingJoe
Country was 88% white in 84.

Hardly any illegal immigrants at that time.

Yet, later in 86 the stupid amnesty bill was signed.

Been on a slow downhill roll since then.

12 posted on 04/11/2026 6:00:10 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Legal voting by immigrants is what took over California and America, it wasn’t the illegals.

By the way, while illegal immigration in 1984 wasn’t being noticed by most of the nation, many of us in border states already considered it as overrunning our states, it had been a massive and growing problem since at least the early 70s.


13 posted on 04/11/2026 6:35:09 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: tellw

In fairness to Reagan, when elected in 1980, he carried a wave of Republicans to victory up and down the ballot, with the US Senate tipping to the GOP. Unfortunately, in 1984, with the help of the news media, the Democrats argued that they would balance Reagan and keep him from “going too far.”


14 posted on 04/11/2026 7:09:39 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: no-to-illegals

I am sure, there was some fraud even then.
The Reagan victory was so overwhelming, it did not matter!


15 posted on 04/11/2026 8:37:43 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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