[litany_of_lies]

I don't remember it how Steven W. does.

On the weekend before Election Day, the Mondale crowd ran a TV ad that predicated nuclear holocaust if Reagan were reelected. I remember the WSJ editorial page commented on how incredibly desperate an act the ad was. In defense of Steve W., the MSM may have still been pretending the race was close, but I recall "knowing" that a Reagan re-elect was a foregone conclusion.

Also, on Election Night, I vividly remember Dan Rather coming on and RIGHT AWAY saying that the only drama of the night would be whether Reagan would take all 50 states, or "just" 47-49. Old Dan was trying to set the bar so high that Reagan would "fail," which I guess he did in Dan's eyes when Mondale squeaked by in his home state of MN.

Geez, it's a relief in 2004 to not be limited to the MSM evening news for TV news info.

[reformedliberal]

I was TV-free at that time and in my apolitical period. I was amazed. I had the impression from public radio, my only *news* source (& one I trusted), that Mondale would win.

I remember that immediately afterward, many people declared they were finished with politics. They were Democrats/leftists.

Reagan effectively banished them to their echo chamber for another 4 years.

Yes, thank God for FR and the Internet in general.