Let's elect another one NEXT November!
I remember that we were eating dinner before going to my cousin’s house to watch the returns. We ate dinner with early returns on. Indiana came in and it was a sweep. I remember saying, as I had been saying for about a week, that we could win BIG.
By the time we got to my cousin’s house (about 15-20 minutes from our house), Carter was on TV conceding.
I had been making phone calls for Reagan at the local Republican HQ (and at the Conservative Party HQ) and I remember showing up the day after the debate and saying, “We just won this election. it could be big.”
They were skeptical, but I reminded them that there were only two things anyone remembered from that debate and they were both beneficial to us.
(I’ve heard that when Pat Caddell watched the debate, he told the Carter staffers, “Get your resumes in order.”)
Note that SeeBS is using blue for Reagan and red for Carter. When did the color code get flipped?
Toward the end of Reagan's second term I remember thinking, "I wonder if this represents the high-water mark for conservatism."
Longing for those days again...
Yes! I want to experience Reagan’s 3rd term!!!
The video makes me want to puke. It is all Democrat.
Part 3 is much more interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7CTF5BM590
The “CBS analysis” is 10,000 rpm of spinnng.
80 NBC coverage —Republican states blue, Dems red
“It’s beginning to look like a suburban swimming pool”
“A few days ago nobody could have predicted such a landslide”
“Reagan approaching 400 electoral votes; Carter stuck at 35”
Boy I’d love to see that with Trump!