Calling The Election: A Brief History OF NBC News Projections | NBC News

[@andrewthetextbook489]

2004 to 2008 was crazy change in video quality.

[@hotwax9376]

Yep, that was about the time that HDTV started to take off.

[@diogodavid3557]

I'd say more between 2008 and 2012

[@scoobydoo4595]

@@diogodavid3557 yeah

[@N2407-y5h]

2008-2012

[@6piecechickenmcnuggets23]

To everyone complaining about how the 2016 results weren't in the video, the video was made before the results were in. November 8, 2016.

[@nightwi5h959]

And to the rest of you don't worry, the complaints carried on after the results were in too!

[@anticorncob6]

They don't care. They just love to gloat about how they won and they want to believe that NBC is too butthurt about Trump winning to show it.

[@nightwi5h959]

@@MichaelShrute-wt9cu My good man I think you have misinterpreted my response. I meant the trump people were complaining! As soon as fox called arizona ahead of the others I was sipping champagne and laughing

[@blktenor]

The way they reported Gerald Ford's lost to Carter was kind of depressing lol. Could they make it sound any worse?

[@jonathantan2469]

[ Rachel Maddow sighs ] "You're awake by the way... "

[@beanch9616]

@@jonathantan2469 😂😂😂

[@andrewsutherland133]

I agree they were kinda unfair. But I'm still going to tell a story that I just remembered that's kinda messed up: I was about 6 when Ford died and my principal went on the loud speaker and gave a moment of silence for him. The thing is the entire time she was sobbing on the loud speaker throughout it and my friend told me his entire class (including his teacher) broke the moment of silence because the couldn't hold in their laughter (It's also worth noting that the majority of the school didn't like her).

[@blktenor]

@@andrewsutherland133 LOL

[@camacaron06]

Fun fact: All presidential and vice presidential candidates all were their party’s nominee and all lost presidential elections. Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were the ones.

[@moses4769]

"Being 40 at 16 and 16 at 40" that sounds so weird lol

[@rosemapalad723]

Lol

[@Shabasky1]

it's pretty cool how you archive these

[@johnnyballenatl]

Eisenhower was easily re-elected in 1956; unfortunately, NBC never kept their election night broadcast. And it was John Chancellor who called the election for Nixon (Illinois put him over the top) when their 1968 coverage resumed after the Today Show.

[@TheTwenty42]

Nixon won Cali in 1960. That guy was wrong.

[@APOCALYPSE_X-MEN]

Phil P It was called for Kennedy initially.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

absentee ballots came in later that said Cali went to Nixon about a week later.

[@mrlukeh3155]

I believe Nixon won Illinois and California.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

No Illinois was Kennedy in 60, both Illinois and Texas was basically why Kennedy won over Nixon.

[@georghuppertz5727]

Ohio, Virginia and Florida went for Nixon.

[@mrcolz9373]

Ronald Reagan: "A sports announcer, a film actor..." Are you saying Lester Holt has a chance?

[@0RatedChess]

Kennedy: I won California Nixon: Haha *absentee ballots* I win California now Kennedy: I STILL WIN!

[@GermanShepherd1983]

Nixon couldn't even carry his home state. They knew how crooked he was

[@kamelhaj6850]

If Nixon would have had authorities look into the Chicago voting irregularities, he would have won Illinois and maybe the Presidency!

[@ja_e314]

My grandpa remembers when Eisenhower won, and my grandma (other side of the family) remembers his inauguration! :)

[@2hotruby558]

When you're president and lose the first election of your entire life

[@adiossoydaniel]

@houseofleaves12 first election too he wasn't Nixon running mate he became VP when spyro Agnew resigned

[@averagechannel5527]

@@adiossoydaniel Spiro Agnew*

[@liker-qd4fz]

He wasn't elected President , he was Vice President when Nixon Resigned. He wasn't elected VP Either , he got the position when Spiro Agnew resigned.

[@pplesandoranges]

It's a misleading line - Ford had won congressional races before, and he made it to House Minority Leader before he was tapped as replacement VP.

[@ericveneto1593]

"Living in government housing". Love it

[@clarencepeterson8646]

0:33 Nixon ended up carrying California (narrowly) in that election. They still got the call right though.

[@warrenrhinerson6373]

Nixon didn’t win California till a week later after counting the absentee ballots

[@blackbox3008]

@@warrenrhinerson6373 and it’s funny how democrats didn’t immediately claim fraud

[@warrenrhinerson6373]

@@blackbox3008 ironic isn’t it

[@blackbox3008]

@@warrenrhinerson6373 its almost like those votes actually mattered, even if they were for Nixon

[@spilledshelf5]

It wouldn't have mattered since Kennedy won. Interestingly though Nixon has claim fraud in Illinois and Texas, states he narrowly lost

[@port2483]

They nSkipped 1956; even though it was pretty much a repeat of 1952 Eisenhower defeated Stevenson.

[@johnnyballenatl]

Like I said, NBC never archived their 1956 election coverage, which was anchored by Bill Henry with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

[@LegoPostPresidency]

Here's A Fun Fact: in The 1988 Election One Person Voted for Lloyd Benson for President and Dukakis for Vice President How Weird is That

[@TheJds1993]

It's amazing how throughout the years people go back and forth with both parties

[@emperorvaIens]

B-b-but Daddy Trump and Rudy Giulliani said that it doesn't matter how the media calls the elections. Was Daddy Trump.......lying?

[@achannel6664]

the media actually does not call elections, though. If the New York Times says that Mr. Seemore is president elect but actually when the votes are tallied Mr. smigdledorf is president elect, well I'm sorry

[@emperorvaIens]

@@achannel6664 Mr smigledorf didn't seem to complain in 2016 when he was named president-elect by the media

[@achannel6664]

@@emperorvaIens well at that point the election was over. When you have contested results in states that would completely make or break a specific candidate's path to victory, you can't claim one has already won.

[@emperorvaIens]

@@achannel6664 Just because the results are being contested, does not mean that they are in question. Biden has won by margins in the thousands in these 'contested' states. Any lawsuit would have to have very strong evidence in order to dismiss thousands of votes, and as of now the evidence does not seem very strong considering the man is having his cases thrown out over and over again.

[@achannel6664]

@@emperorvaIens having a bad judge on a bad day doesn't mean crap, especially when you have plenty of evidence, that they have already explained is there and what is consists of. And yes, they have evidence of fraud in the thousands in Pennslyvania, Michigan, and Nevada. those 3 states alone would net Trump a big 42 electoral vote. Adding that to his current total is a grand 271 electoral votes, with alaska yet to be called, and a potential flip in Arizona. Along with this, Wisconsin and Georgia having recounts which could sway the results considering their margins are less than 20,000 and 10,000 respectively, and they used the dominion voting machines which have provided errors in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennslyvania aleady, which have had margins in the thousands. This election is easily winnable by either candidate at this point. But yes, if you want to call states with recounts and legal challenges not resolved yet, than Biden is president elect.

[@DarthSparhawk]

they had more dignity in the past

[@williamcondon7729]

We demanded less and we got what we deserved

[@josepharmstrong1531]

Eh. If you watch some of the election broadcasts from the 80s, they were waaaaay more blunt on who was going to win.

[@HailAnts]

If you look at 2:01 you can see that the red and blue colors are flipped. Red for Democrat, blue for Republican. The networks used to switch the two colors every four years but after the prolonged and drawn out 2000 election in which the map was on the news every night for over a month the colors became ingrained as red for the Republican and blue for the Democrat. They've stayed that way ever since. Although planned for, no third color was ever used on a network news map because no third party candidate has ever won even one electoral vote in modern times. Not Anderson in 1980 nor Perot in 1992..

[@Drew_64]

So interesting to notice the professionalism of news reports going up as the years go on, I.e. older ones reading off papers, stuttering, not looking ahead

[@pigs18]

That was a time before they were fed information via earpieces and teleprompters. Often they were reading the copy for the first time, live on air.

[@christopherthorkon3997]

Different technology at the time. We live in an era of technological luxury.

[@indianapatsfan]

1:58, that's a cute line, but if a news anchor said that about Obama's reelection in 2012, that anchor would have been tarred and feathered and probably kicked off the air.

[@mr.blonde8808]

They wouldn't and that also doesn't make sense ya bozo.

[@mikeb3d727]

Will McAvoy in The Newsroom uses the same line in the episode where they cover the 2012 election

[@chip599XX_VGRLeader]

2016: Trump won the election 2020: Biden won the election

[@mateusborges6465]

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[@chip599XX_VGRLeader]

Mateus Borges what’s wrong?

[@mateusborges6465]

@@chip599XX_VGRLeader Please watch this documentary. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joHUq6ycjrGhh7M

[@chip599XX_VGRLeader]

Mateus Borges what is this?

[@mateusborges6465]

@@chip599XX_VGRLeader It is a Brazilian documentary about the geopolitical change and the attack that the United States has been suffering in its culture.

[@byrd56]

0:22--It was considered advanced for its time that NBC used customized scoreboards built by National Cash Register (NCR) for the 1952 election night totals.

[@smurphftw2008]

Back when Red and Blue were reversed

[@DFandV]

In Europe it's reversed lol

[@calweir6190]

@The Changer in Europe, normally the left wing party is red and the right wing party is blue

[@calweir6190]

@The Changer honestly don't know

[@miz_logo_lee]

@@calweir6190 the Red / Blue designation only has been around for twenty years in the U.S., believe it or not. The parties themselves did not have official colors but the networks started using the current scheme during the very drawn/out Bush v. Gore. Also, Europeans have long used red to designate workers’ parties, but really, neither major party here is a “worker’s party”, probably due to the strange histories of the parties that are based more on region and twisting, turning relationships to both the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement 100 years later.

[@calweir6190]

@@miz_logo_lee thanks

[@NewsBroadcasting]

2:38 its from 1996 looks like it can be from Today

[@derrsonn]

This is so dishonest that they didn't include their mistaken call of Gore in 2000. It was memorable. Would've been good to include that as well for posterity

[@blubaylon]

They were right though

[@octaneblue6]

He did win tho

[@KrishnaDasLessons]

Yeah he did win the popular vote and technically won the election, it is just that the election was completely messed up due to the electoral college and the "hanging chad" situation. I guess it is similar to Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump where Hillary Clinton did technically win the popular vote but not the electoral college.

[@Kevbot6000]

@@KrishnaDasLessons no, gore won the popular vote by 500k, Hillary did by 3 million

[@RJ-he2ns]

They were right. They called Al because Al won the popular vote, that's what News Networks do, they call the popular vote.

[@wcochran05]

The NBC theme really sets the video well.

[@theancientsancients1769]

Yeah, Tom Brokaw wow was great at his work. Notice after the 1996 election his speech slows down more compared to 84 and 88

[@tysen813]

Tom Brokaw at 3:03 regarding the 2000 Election- "What has been the most bitterly, contested election in modern history...." 2020 Election- "Hold my beer."

[@k_np04]

2000 still the 1st place

[@DawgPoundEnjoyer]

@@k_np04 January 6 would say otherwise

[@gregpaspatis9425]

@@DawgPoundEnjoyer not so far behind those two would be a couple of a million distraught women protesters contesting 2016 outcome at the Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 "women's march", lol.

[@kirkkerman]

Neither of them hold a candle to 1860...

[@AFellowCyberman]

​@@DawgPoundEnjoyer And the overall political division is far worse than 2000, and will continue to get worse.

[@steftrando]

1984 was the turning point in modern-looking TV news.

[@theancientsancients1769]

Actually 1980 the studios in 1980 and 1984 were of the same tech. The 90s is when things radically changed and still remain the same to this day pretty much

[@DNSKansas]

Nixon ended up winning California in 1960

[@EliteSpark-tf7kw]

Actually no mistakes happened. Absentee ballots put nixon over the top. Kennedy did win on election night.

[@cedarpoint90]

that recording from 2012 has good quality

[@robinsechriest7052]

Ronal Reagan won the whole thing before Walter Mondale got 1 electoral vote lol

[@aiden22theastronaut72]

Love the big map they used to have in the background from '76 - '84.

[@CalebTillmon]

I remember the night of 2012 I was only a HS Freshman. 2016 (not shown) was the first election I voted in since I was born in 1998 #GenZ

[@09rja]

I don't see how Brinkley can say it was Ford's first election: he had won his House seat (via election) numerous times.

[@ivanjinxgg7008]

He said it was the first election that ford lost

[@gregp103]

YOU are fake news, 09rja. and your ears stink.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Well, it was his first Presidential election, and he very nearly lost the nomination to Reagan that year. Reagan was easily nominated in 1980, and would win landslides that year and '84 in the general election.

[@thereviewhostedbyethancyga7983]

1:56 Former Vice President Walter "Fritz" Mondale Has died Rest in Peace Fritz - April 20th 2021

[@samarmisra4922]

So heartbreaking truly. He died at 93.

[@LegoPostPresidency]

I agree

[@literallytired5469]

BTW if anyone was confused of the more older elections Democrats used to be labeled red and Republicans are used to be labeled blue. I won’t be talking about this cuz it kinda gets long

[@noahh90]

It is so confusing how in the 80’s the GOP states were blue and the Dem states were red. Why do you have to make politics more confusing?!

[@VANssaZOOlema]

So basically every year they changed the color red for dems one year and red for republicans the next year. They kept Red for rep and blue for Dems after i believe the Gore Bush 2000 election.

[@sajidmahmud7945]

Everywhere else in the world, left wing parties carry the colour of red whereas right wing parties use blue. Only in USA now its the opposite.

[@mgm57901]

@@VANssaZOOlema That is what I heard as well. They would alternate different years for different parties (and maybe each station had their own) but because 2000 went on for 33 days it cemented the red and blue concept. I was surprised when I hear that because that is the first election I remember (I was 10) and I did not know that is where the concept came from.

[@JahnDough]

3:00 Yeah... So about that

[@thebeastofamericaa6720]

Do you even understand how long that election took 2020 is nothing George bush won by 5 electoral votes joe Biden won by like 40 or something

[@JahnDough]

@@thebeastofamericaa6720 i mean the "bitterly contested election" part

[@Will-en3kn]

@@thebeastofamericaa6720 Actually Bush won with 271 votes. 270 is needed to win. If he had gotten 2 less electoral votes he would have lost

[@graystarstudios1179]

What is the music in the beginning?

[@RideFreestyleOhio]

Skipsenter I believe it's the Mission Theme by John Williams.

[@graystarstudios1179]

RideFreestyleOhio thanks so much!

[@mitchellquartero]

NBC news election coverage theme

[@johnnyballenatl]

I'm sure CBS will be doing a similar video like this with a history of their Presidential calls from 1952 (Eisenhower) to 2020 (Biden) with Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Scott Pelley, and Norah O’Donnell.

[@americangiant1003]

That amazing that in over 60 years, CBS only had 4 Chief Anchors to call the Presidential elections. Now for the 1st time in 2020 for CBS having Co-Anchors (and the first time 2 ladies will be the lead Commentators as far as I am aware on the original big 3)with Noah O' Donnell and Gayle King.

[@abcbatman1966]

O:35 Brinkley called California for Kennedy, in error. Nixon won California in 1960.

[@plant4143]

It's even worse when it's called as the state that put kennedy over 269 electoral votes (this was after Hawaii/Alaska gained statehood but before DC got electoral votes, so there were 537 total instead of 538)

[@warrenrhinerson6373]

abcbatman1966 Nixon didn’t win California till a week later when absentee ballots were counted.

[@walker68175]

0:39 Nixon actually came back and won California following Election Day

[@jasonhammon3369]

The whole “Red State, Blue State” notion is relatively new. Don’t believe me? See 2:06.

[@HeroicAge616]

Republicans were Blue and Democrats were Red because of the traditional colors associated with the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War. The media flipped them in the 90s to draw attention away from Democrats being the party of the Confederacy. Kind of clever actually...

[@artlanddragon7359]

@@HeroicAge616 Wrong. Republicans were blue because of the Union, that's right. But the red stood for the left-wing. Basically every other left party in the world is red. NBC chose the colors because in Great Britain, Conservatives are blue and Labour Party is red.

[@kc_1018]

@@HeroicAge616 Blue is the traditional color for conservatism, traditionalism, and monarchism. Many center-right political parties throughout the world use blue as their color. Red/Pink is the color for left-wing political parties like social democrats, democratic socialist, socialist, or communist political parties.

[@hotwax9376]

@@HeroicAge616 First, the universal adoption of red for Republican and blue for Democrat actually began in 2000 with the Bush vs. Gore presidential election. Before that, those colors were sometimes used (usually by CBS or ABC), but NBC typically used the opposite, as shown here. It's more likely the media didn't want to associate red, the color of communism, with Democrats, whose policies are often accused of being socialist (and in recent years, some Dems have embraced the label.) Also, the Confederates wore gray during the Civil War, not red. But you're correct that the left has been trying to draw attention away from Democrats' history as the party of the Confederacy in map coloring--but it's usually in the colors of Civil War maps. Most show the Union in blue and the Confederacy in red, because left-wing historians know that people associate red with the GOP. By doing this, they can depict Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln and the Union, as the party of racist neo-Confederate hicks. Coloring the Union states blue makes sense since they wore blue uniforms, but by that logic the Confederate states should be colored gray.

[@hotwax9376]

It's also highly misleading. Many states that support one party for president often vote for the other in down-ballot elections. During the 2004 presidential election, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wyoming all had Democratic governors, while the governors of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont were all Republicans. Both of North Dakota's senators were Democrats at the time. Going into this November's election, Kansas and Kentucky both have Democratic governors while Maryland, Massachusetts, and Vermont all have GOP governors. Montana has both a Democratic governor and one Democrat in the Senate. Arizona has its first Democratic Senator in nearly a quarter century and the Democratic Senate candidate there this year will likely pick up the remaining seat. So in reality, there aren't really red or blue states, just different shades of purple.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

2:08-1988 had the Democratic states in red, the Republican ones in blue. The reverse of today.

[@hotwax9376]

In Europe, red is traditionally the color of left-wing parties and blue the color of the right. Even Canada uses blue for the Conservative party and red for the Liberals. But because red is traditionally the color of socialism and communism, the liberal news media didn't want to reinforce the perception that Democrats are sympathetic to socialism (which in present times is odd since some Dems have openly embraced the socialist moniker). They also didn't want to reinforce the fact that Republicans were the party of the Union during the Civil War by using blue, the color of the Union Army uniforms, for the GOP. Also, Republican and red both start with R, which is the rationale Time magazine gave after the Bush vs. Gore election in 2000, the first time the current color scheme was universally adopted.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

@@hotwax9376 OK, thanks.

[@joshuadesautels]

Going to have to update this for 2020 now.

[@samcham4413]

This video seriously gets me emotional. Yes, not all presidents are good and most have severe character flaws but in the end each election moves us closer towards that "more perfect union."

[@kingionia]

Forgot the 1956 election

[@pinedelgado4743]

Poor David Brinkley may not have been raising his voice, but just listening him call the 1960 election made me feel like I was being admonished harshly. LOL!!! :) :) :) :)

[@darkchocolate3390]

Bush 43's took FOREVER lmfao EDIT: Trump's failed re-election bid comes in second now behind 2000 lol. Here on 11/10/2020 11:53 PM CDT.

[@n64wilbert]

Trump did too. I think JFK as well.

[@DFandV]

This election might turn out like this as well.

[@EliteSpark-tf7kw]

@@n64wilbert it took till 3 am? Not that long

[@gerardanderson9665]

Back when Democrats are Red and Republicans are Blue

[@mjwatts1983]

They were following the international standard for party colors Left leaning parties = Red Right leaning parties = Blue

[@aracelysanchez6567]

Thx for the likes on the comment

[@mark0001]

You waited for three years. I'm gonna give you your first like. Have a nice day!

[@theancientsancients1769]

Notice how Tom Brokaw speech changes from 1996 to 2000 as if it's more slurred . Loved Tom Brokaw broadcast as anchor along with the late Peter Jennings

[@alcazarugerio]

And 1956?

[@email5023]

Tape is lost....404 Error

[@lucky-rowe2623]

When NBC called Florida for Al Gore hundreds of thousands of people didn't go vote for Bush after they got off work in the western part of the USA. If NBC didn't do that Bush would have also won the popular vote.

[@zombieguyproducion]

Calling Florida before the polls closed in the panhandle was really stupid..

[@pigs18]

@@zombieguyproducion To be honest, having a state occupy two time zones is really stupid to begin with.

[@americangiant1003]

@@pigs18 Honestly Just put the Fla. Panhandle into the East Coast Time zone. Problem solved.

[@americangiant1003]

@@zombieguyproducion Actually the polls in Fla was closed. I think almost all of the networks and Cable News Channels called the Gore Fla. Victory around (correct me if wrong)around 11pm ET. So the only open polls would have been in Alaska and Hawaii.

[@zombieguyproducion]

@@americangiant1003 Atleast CNN called it at around 7:50 EST. The election night is up on YT if you want to check for yourself. You might be confusing it with some networks calling the state for Bush (and later retracting) which happened later on. Voting in the panhandle was STILL going on at the point they called it for Gore.

[@BNoble86]

1:01 - imagine messing that bit up and it will probably be one of the most played clips of u ever.

[@TheGreyPillPodcast]

LOOKING FOR: a significant interruption in the broadcast of NBC News on May 17, 1985. During this time, the signal was lost for about 10 to 20 minutes. When the signal was restored, NBC News issued an apology for the interruption before the scheduled airing of "V: The Series" began. need video.

[@bobflendorg1064]

NBC should be regulated as a democrat party Super Pac.

[@hotwax9376]

CNN's bias has become even more blatant in recent years.

[@sjchxhtriskit3025]

1988 was crazy, you got a blue Texas and a red Massachusetts, in 2020, Massachusetts is the most blue state in the country

[@wiiu9751]

Sjchxh Triskit the colors were switched back then so Massachusetts was Democratic and Texas was Republican. Not that crazy

[@mitchellquartero]

At that time the republicans were blue and democrats were red

[@hotwax9376]

Not really. Their current governor, Charlie Baker, is a Republican, and they elected Scott Brown to the Senate only ten years ago. Sure, they're both moderate Republicans, but a moderate Republican is still a Republican.

[@sjchxhtriskit3025]

HotWax93 Well that’s irrelevant as well. Maryland has a Republican governor right now too, and too my knowledge Cali did within the past 10 years. By most blue state in the country I mean by vote registration Edit: and I was wrongish anyways bc the colors were flipped back then

[@starfrost6816]

Hang on chuck *claps* we got some critical calls

[@imrustyokay]

Y'all gotta update this

[@CAbruscati]

And Guess What Happened Next

[@EclipseOfTsuki93]

3:30 You can't help but cry... I miss Obama...

[@tomkalina7022]

Dukakis should've gone cowboy and put on some boots, hat, belt buckle, and then he would've won the Midwestern and Southwestern states he needed to carry this election.

[@nmgscp]

Projections are like: On election day On the day after the election On election day On the day after the election 35 days after the election ...

[@RhinoXpress]

2:59 Yeah wait until Nov 3rd, 2020 if they thought Nov 3rd, 2000 was the most bitterly contested prez election. lol

[@fetus9280]

The 2020 one was the most nerve-racking one i have ever been through...

[@theancientsancients1769]

Agreed! It was a rollercoaster. But back then Americans were not that divided ideologically

[@onurturhal6814]

The animation quality is going up🎉 and the duty of centrism is getting forgotten with decaying memorys❤

[@lexikhan3105]

0:38 California was won by Nixon, not JFK

[@jj.FLWX.]

Key word "projection"

[@lcyiii1505]

You know the word "projection"

[@lexikhan3105]

@@lcyiii1505 I'm telling the truth. Nixon on California. NBC lied. Check the electoral college maps for 1960.

[@lcyiii1505]

@@lexikhan3105 Man its a "projection" it's mean PREDICTIONS not the real results

[@jrgilby]

Compare how giddy they were in the earlier broadcasts to 2008.

[@1brianm7]

The captions on this video are offset.

[@tobiojo5806]

great video.

[@henryhanks6548]

Bizarre for Brian Williams to forget Amy Carter existed like that

[@tatzxx8619]

I've been watching the 1976 debates on cspan and now I get why jimmy carter won . and he did it even while having that Playboy interview scandal

[@ORkdo-nb6ti]

2:03 instead of red for reagan it was blue for bush

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

When will they do an update adding 2016?

[@Thanos-vv4gj]

Can’t wait until they add 2020🤩

[@lindakelley4236]

lets hope Hilary doesn't win

[@matthewpeters2502]

MrFerdimand how could she vote libertarian if she kills herself…

[@geometryd]

0:33 Except Kennedy lost California

[@spb7883]

I write this as a left-leaning person. In a democracy, the function of the news media should be to report the news. The notion that *any* major news outlet would call an election based on vote tallies prior to completed vote counts is concerning. They should report the tallies as they are received, but calling the election result isn’t their job.

[@Kartracer6]

That's why it's called projected results. They still keep you updated but analysts have gotten so good at mathematically calculating outcomes that they are almost always right

[@spb7883]

@@Kartracer6 Right, but that belies what this really is for these outlets: entertainment. It’s a boxing match with bad slogans.

[@ashwinv3951]

I mean if one side is leading by like 10 points with 90% of the vote in...or if its a state where one side always wins by 30 points...

[@jzisers]

Anyone in 2021 ?

[@stoph61]

I’d be embarrassed by those childhood graphics! 😂

[@rickpaulsingh]

Now we need to add President Donald J. Trump

[@IrishFriendsFan]

Make an updated one

[@Steezboy3000]

That 2012 call was so convoluted and poorly presented

[@iViking90]

May want to update that.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Before NBC news became NPC news..

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

0:34 As it turns out he won Hawaii but not California.

[@Londa1027]

Tom Brokaw didn't age throughout decades 😂🤣😂

[@adamdickinson2894]

Are we to assume the ones they left out are the ones they got wrong?

[@Londa1027]

What's missing? Ah '56

[@martinlutherkingjr.4778]

Where’s 1956 election?

[@jimhogarth9678]

@@vikinglothar I would've liked to see it.

[@email5023]

I thought it was lost/erased.

[@centeyek]

You see how the narrative shifts around 2008

[@Election_History]

McGovern ran again in 1988.

[@rjm_17]

Who’s genius idea was it to make Republican Blue and Democrat Red at one point?

[@mr.gamewatch7547]

That's what the international colors are for right wing and left wing parties...

[@HVACSoldier]

I thought Amy Carter was a somewhat young kid. Amy Carter was 9 or 10 years old in 1977. The Obama daughters weren’t that much younger.

[@addrianparks125]

jerry curls an flat tops watching back then

[@kennypooser]

Here's an interesting thought, why do you think repubs were represented by the color blue on the maps and dems by red? The even bigger question was why was it changed.

[@hotwax9376]

I have two theories as to why it changed. In Canada and Europe, blue is the color of the right and red the color of the left. Red in particular is associated with socialism and communism, and Democrats are often accused of being sympathetic to those philosophies. Even though some Democrats have embraced the word "socialist" in recent years, the liberals who run the news media don't want their party to be represented by that color for fear of reinforcing the perception. Similarly, Republicans were the party of Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War, and blue was the color of the Union Army uniforms. Again, most journalists are Democrats and as such don't want people (especially voters in states where the polls close later) to be reminded of this fact.

[@kennypooser]

My thoughts exactly!! Ignorance is strength!

[@mgm57901]

Answer: They used to switch them all the time. Some years it would be one way and next election a different way. Different stations probably did it their own way as well. Then, in 2000, when it was a 33 day "election day" they kept Bush red and Gore blue to keep it consistent for viewers who were tuning back in.

[@GermanShepherd1983]

Because Republicans are communist sympathizers, so they are red

[@McDonaldsDude]

In the 1984 and 1988 parts were those computers connected to the internet?

[@jshepard152]

lol. Definitely not.

[@pigs18]

They would have been connected to a mainframe located within the building or perhaps exclusive to the news department. So they would have been connected to an intranet at most. The World Wide Web, the internet as most people know it, wasn't available yet.

[@bunterhiden9389]

Man 2016 am I right guys

[@rex5947]

whos here during the coronovirus----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->

[@9965paul]

Isn't John Kennedy running for the presidency?

[@octopibingo]

He's ahead. Update: he has no head.

[@alaandre004]

octopibingo loooool

[@garysheldonjr8379]

Uh...... r u stupid he was assassinated in 1963 wicth was about 53 years ago.

[@MSORP2008]

@@garysheldonjr8379 r/wooosh

[@EliteSpark-tf7kw]

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