Does anyone remember election night in 1980? I’ve heard people say this brings back memories of it.
We also had Carville do the trash-can-on-the-head thing that year. I sure am hoping we get to have that much fun on Tuesday night.
Yes, I lived out West and came home from work about 5pm (AZ-MST) to enjoy an evening of watching election night results on CNN (only game in town then).
It was still full daylight out. Within about 15-20 minutes of sitting down they announced Reagan had won just based on what happened back East. It was very shocking.
On the Friday night before the election, in Johnny Carson’s monologue, he had a piece in it about how “close the election is and nobody knows what’s going to happen, not the TV news people, press, etc”
One of the best nights in my life!!!! They treated Reagan during that election very much like they’ve treated Trump this year. He was Bozo. He was a Class B Actor. He would start WWII. blah blah blah. Worst thing that could EVER happen.
Then, of course, it was a sea of blue ... before the media types decided that since red was the Communist color, they would assign it to the Republicans as Dems were too close to Commies and that didn’t want that image to take root.
This does feel very much like that. I hope we’re not disappointed. Things have become a lot more toxic, more crooked, more rigged than they were back then. AND the country’s demographics have changed. Not to mention all the room for shenanigans with early and mail voting. We shall see.
“Does anyone remember election night in 1980? I’ve heard people say this brings back memories of it.”
Yes, it does. Even the poll numbers are nearly identical. The liberal media comments are identical, even down to “Reagan is the most dangerous man running!”
Here’s a collection of insults to Ronald Reagan by America’s journalistic lights, some of whom are still afflicting us:
http://www.mrc.org/special-reports/ronald-reagan-overcoming-fierce-first-draft-history
Could you tell me what it was like in the 80s? I was only born in 1985 so I don’t have a clue.
I was working that night. There was a TV in the bar showing the election results. Just one TV in those days with a crappy signal - not the ocean of wide screens you see in a typical bar today. Not even a cable hookup. One of the thousand jobs I had in that place was to adjust the antenna on that TV to get a better picture. Which was frequently.
It was pretty much a given that Carter was going to get re-elected. To be honest, I had no real horse in the race, I was just 18 years old and not politically savvy yet. I remember rooting for Reagan only because seeing Carter on TV in those days depressed me. He always had that hangdog defeatist look on his face. Reagan seemed pretty happy and optimistic about everything and had a sense of humor, which Carter clearly had very little of.
So it was a surprise to see Reagan pulling away early. I was bussing tables, filling up juice machines, delivering tubs of ice to the bar from the ice-maker, doing pretty much every odd job that came up. The people at the bar started getting excited. Obviously Reagan fans. When the race was officially called for him, the bar erupted in celebration and the dining room started buzzing with excitement.
This was Massachusetts by the way. Which Reagan carried by a hair.
No.
But I remember the next morning, getting woken up at about 5:30. ABC News was on, I think the anchor’s name was Frank or Max. And my drunken f**face of a father was yelling at both the TV and my Mother that Carter won. Yep. Wonderful memories.
As an 8 year old I could read the f**king map and saw Carter got his ass reamed. It was reamed raw by Ronaldus Magnus. Of course I was happy and smiled. So did Mom.
I’m planning on going to the cemeteries this week. I’m going to up my game and instead of pissing on “dad’s” grave, which I’ve been known to do, I’m going for the steaming pinched loaf. I already have a meal of prunes and a large can of kidney beans planned to get the bowels moving.
1980. Hmm from my historical understanding, the media was biased back then but not actively trying to rig the electoral process and sacrifice our republic.
Wasn’t alive yet. Seen the you tube video, great.
My earliest political memory I’m sure I’ve shared before.
I was not yet 5 years old, my mom was watching the rat convention. She didn’t like Dukakis so I chanted “F*** Dukakis” and she didn’t mind.
Yes! I remember, as well as in ‘72 (I was only 10)... I think we are in for a big landslide for The Trump! MAGA
I remember my father taking me into the voting booth and having me pull the lever for John Anderson. =rolling eyes=