Posted on 06/12/2023 7:39:20 PM PDT by ealgeone
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. The contest was between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent. Reagan, aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate.
Today, with all the computers and technology it takes us days, even weeks.
Notice also, the GOP is shaded Blue as they should be today.
Blue is the color of liberty....red is the color of socialism.
To my eternal shame, I voted for Anderson, not Reagan.
I wised up by the next election, and have voted conservative ever since.
Totally right on the color... The traditional Democrat color is red.
The first president I got to vote for, was up until the concession speech, very exciting and relieving after Carter’s debacle of a term.
you’re right. the GOP should switch back to light blue.
and i remember the election night coverage on tv. all the announcers looked like their dog had just died. they were all acting shocked. that was probably the night my indoctrinated belief in unbiased news died for good.
Deep Commie red.
In Canada, Australia, and the UK, the right of center party is blue and the left is red.
We can blame Tim Russert in 2000 for this.
Love how they left the ads in there. And the call should be made on election night always, even though Reagan made it easy in his elections.
The only election coverage I found more satisfying was the 2016 election of Trump.
It used to be that blue was the color of the challenger while red was the incumbent. After Obama’s victory, they froze the colors… likely so they wouldn’t be labeled red anymore.
Every few months I watch the Young Turks 2016 meltdown. They are so full of.... Did you know they eventually had to do a fundraiser and beg to stay on the air?
Was 1980 the election that Peter Jennings said America had a temper tantrum or an other election
1994.
“We can blame Tim Russert in 2000 for this.”
Can’t blame him. It’s been that way long before 2000:
https://youtu.be/K0_sYOgJzfE?t=92
https://youtu.be/dJtWaNoyLcs?t=91
https://youtu.be/_uv91cCeuw0?t=101
https://youtu.be/PBkIgVxAMRI?t=4409
https://youtu.be/DeTk1uiUwZ8?t=90
https://youtu.be/opYnHcoKKCU?t=545
https://youtu.be/BeLZDksKbW8?t=773
With the exception of NBC, it has been Red for Republicans and Blue for Democrats since 1984 on every network.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.Too late to turn the GOP back from red, particularly after what they showed themselves to be in 2020.
— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
I don’t think that’s right. The networks did it differently from each other but I remember GOP as blue on NBC and red on ABC.
What really froze the “red states, blue states” idea in place was the map that ran on page 1 of USA Today throughout the Bush-Gore recount saga in 2000.
bttt
The colors were deliberately altered by the media for Election Night 2000 and we’ve had the ludicrous “Red=Conservative/Blue=Demonrat” nonsense ever since. Demonrats are the RED Communist party.
So they basically alternated before 2000?
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