Posted on 11/04/2015 5:50:25 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
From November of 1980, here is CBS's coverage of Election Night. Taped from WJKW-TV8, Cleveland. This is part 1 of 3
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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?
I remember that night well! I was 12, it was a joyous night.
I was 4 and didn’t care. May Mom voted for Carter.
Toward the end of Reagan's second term I remember thinking, "I wonder if this represents the high-water mark for conservatism."
I was 15 and pulling for Reagan. My dad voted for Carter. He just couldn’t stomach voting for an actor.
He even voted for obama the first time. The second time he stayed home.
Longing for those days again...
Yes! I want to experience Reagan’s 3rd term!!!
In 96 for Bubbas second selection. .
I remember that day (and night) too. The media announced his win in the afternoon!
The video makes me want to puke. It is all Democrat.
Dave Leip's wonderful Election Atlas still uses the traditional "blue" for Republican and "red" for Demon Rat.
NBC inaugurated the practice of red states for Republicans and blue for Democrats in 1976, I believe. CBS didn’t want to copy their chief rival, so they flipped the color scheme, but it didn’t last.
On election night 1980, I was a young radio news reporter. My station sent me to a neighboring country to cover a couple of contentious races, for sheriff and the state legislature. I provided live updates throughout the evening for the station and the state radio network. However, the races were decided earlier than expected, so I was heading back to the station around mid-evening.
Driving back, I had the car radio on WBBM, the CBS station out of Chicago. They seemed a bit subdued, as I recall. Only a few days earlier, they had predicted a neck-and-neck contest between Reagan and Carter, but in the final days the electorate broke decisively for Ronaldus Magnus and the landslide was on. Despite my status as a reporter, I was both pleased and relieved. It seemed as though the country was being delivered from ruin that night; I have not experienced that same feeling on an election night since 1980. On the other hand, there have been evenings of utter despair and gloom, particularly when Obama won in 2008.
One moment I’ll always remember from election night 1980: on a hunch, I tuned by car radio to WHO in Des Moines, where Ronald Reagan cut his teeth as sportscaster decades earlier. Sure enough, the station couldn’t resist the tie-in during their election coverage. Here’s how they began their 9 pm summary: “Former WHO sportscaster Ronald Reagan has been elected President of the United States.”
Please explain: What makes it democrat?
Addendum: I see NBC had the same color scheme for 1980, so I’m not sure when the change occurred. However, NBC was the first to create a large map with states that could be illuminated red or blue to depict the party/candidate that won the state.
I watched it. It was Jimmy Carter. It was NOT Reagan.
Part 3 is much more interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7CTF5BM590
The “CBS analysis” is 10,000 rpm of spinnng.
Bumper sticker circa 1980:
Why not an actor? We’ve had a clown for the past 4 years!
CA....
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”
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