Election night drama 1984

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Live, late night footage of ABC and CBS coverage of election night 1984. Late night drama? The network computer programmers stayed up late in New York to see if Reagan would take Minnesota and thus sweep all 50 states.
This was the moment that ABC changed the colors of the states making red Republican and blue Democrat. Before this it had been the other way around in textbooks and on television. It was explained that "red was for Reagan." In fact, the networks chaffed under accusations that they were sympathetic to the political left and not unbiased. And red was the color of the "left."
As the drama mounts the big question was this, "Will Reagan sweep all fifty states?"
1984 election night | Reagan vs. Mondale election | When they made Republican states red? | Ronald Reagan against Walter Mondale | Did Reagan carry all fifty states | Election night 1984 CBS | Election night 1984 NBC | Election night 1984 ABC | Peter Jennings and David Brinkley cover election night | Dan Rather and Susan Spencer cover 1984 election night

[@0RatedChess]

Lots of drama, that election was close, Reagan only got 525 electoral votes.

[@fligthxgaming8398]

I know

[@gaming_sportsaaron1365]

Ikr

[@khoahuynh5077]

such a close call, right?:)

[@crazytigerspy9420]

Too close the call waiting on Nevada

[@oof4623]

I was expecting him to get at least 1,000 electoral votes. Reagan severely underperformed.

[@MaximusMC1011]

West Virginia a "strong Democratic" state. Jeez things have changed

[@fundude4566]

Still has a democratic governor though

[@MaidenUtah1]

+Maximus MC The home state of Sen. Robber D. Turd

[@MaximusMC1011]

Andrew Taylor True, WV never goes for a democrat in the Presidential elections though.

[@bbigjohnson069]

Changed? California used to be a Republican lock. So much so they almost didn't need to come here. They still don't need to come here but for a different reason. They have no chance of winning it.

[@JavierPwns]

+bbigjohnson069 reagan was gov of california

[@arandompersonfromtheintern9596]

Ronald Reagan: i’m about to end this man’s whole career

[@moelester8307]

@Jimmy Carter You we're too.

[@MKD1101]

@@moelester8307 were*

[@joseoku6946]

@@moelester8307 I was about to say the same thing 😂

[@brexil4133]

@Jimmy Carter you copy

[@Scenariania]

1984 Democratic candidates: why are we still here.... just to suffer...

[@rajeshwariable]

Imagine having drama in an election where a candidate won 49 states.

[@Flash4ML]

Not really drama per say, more like dramatic. This was one of the biggest landslides ever, so it was a very dramatic election night.

[@jacktheIV44]

@@Flash4ML no this was T H E landslide

[@cowboycurtis2229]

@Chicken Shit Doesn't matter what you think in terms of voter fraud? For me that's the only thing that matters. If Biden won fair and square, I'm fine with that. But if there was voter fraud on either side, I want that investigated and eliminated.

[@Flash4ML]

@@cowboycurtis2229 there certainly was voter fraud on both sides. It is simply impossible to “eliminate” all problems, frauds, or mistakes. We are simple humans after all, nothing will ever be perfect. However, the tiny amount of cheating that occurred (which happens in literally every election, these radical Trump supporters acting like Biden isn’t president because the dems “cheated” are just idiots, I’m ashamed to call myself a republican because of them) had no impact on the results of the election. Trump lost because 1/3 of the Democratic votes were votes against Trump, not votes for Biden.

[@Flash4ML]

@Chicken Shit this is true. The Trump train is leaving the station, and whether these buffoons who parade around and yell about how the whole election was a fraud and that trump will win the cases decide to climb on board or not is up to them. For the sake of the rational part of the Republican Party, I hope the train picks them up and they’re never seen again, they’re a stain on the reputation of reasonable republicans. The loss of the Michigan senate election was a much more important event, but you don’t see people yelling about that. Why? Because these radicals are only on Trump’s side, only yammering about how the presidential election was a fraud and so on. They’re not real republicans; if trump was a Democrat, (which what do you know, he was a democrat, just switched parties, you know, as one does. . 🤨) they would still follow him.

[@TimmyTheTinman]

"What do want for Christmas Mr. President" "Minnesota would've been nice"-Ronald Reagan

[@orangeflaws8088]

I’ve heard people say Reagan could’ve easily gotten Minnesota if he campaigned harder there, but Reagan wanted to let him win his home state

[@luiscastanon6031]

now that's sportmanship

[@aavocado7948]

@Sloppy Pancake LMFAOO SAME THO IT WOULD BE GREAT

[@alphadoughnut2651]

Still wouldn’t have won everywhere, as I don’t think he won the District of Colombia.

[@BarginsGalore]

@Sloppy Pancake are you joking? If DC was a state it would go blue every time

[@alphadoughnut2651]

@Sloppy Pancake you mean red?

[@nrkgalt]

Minnesota was close enough that Reagan could have asked for a recount, but that would have been running up the score.

[@bbigjohnson069]

He carried every county in Massachusetts. E-V-E-R-Y County in Massachusetts. Massachusetts? Massachusetts! After that line in the debate, Mondale said he knew he was done. He even thought it was funny. It only hurts when he's laughing.

[@coolguy02536]

It's weird how Massachusetts is deemed so far left. Statistically, it's one of the richest, healthiest, smartest, whitest states, and Minnesota is probably right up there with it. Just does not add up.

[@mdp1644]

He didn't win every county in Massachusetts. The last Republican to do that was Coolidge. He won the suburb counties of Norfolk, Plymouth, and Essex enough to swing the state to the Republicans. In addition, Middlesex county (the county with the most votes) was basically 50/50 with a razor thin advantage to Mondale. Therefore, the state went to Reagan easily. By the way, I'm a Reagan fan, buts lets not kid ourselves, the county of Suffolk (Boston) which has a large population hasn't been won by a Republican since Coolidge in 1924

[@mdp1644]

Also to note, the western counties of MA, with the exception of Hampden county, have swung hard left being previously reliably Republican . I have no idea why, it could be the same problem that Vermont had with carpetbagging hippy types.

[@TonyMontana-qv8cx]

nrkgalt Mondale did get a participation trophy though.

[@marion817]

The closest the US had ever been to being the “United” States

[@ELS-tone]

Technically 1936 had a slightly bigger landslide but there were fewer states then

[@salaheddinesif2002]

even tho reagan won mandal had more than 40% of the popular vote and that's not that bad the electoral votes are a little bit tricky

[@jaketheflame02]

@@ELS-tone Only two fewer states lmao, Hawaii and Alaska

[@maxc1214]

“United” irony

[@Pro-nz9fj]

Fuck minnesota, all my homies hate minnesota

[@RYANG6916]

Mondale: My mom voted for me.

[@marcushag8641]

Mondale's mom : not so fast there.

[@nostalgiacorner1999]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@victorarredondo304]

The gentlemen's sweep. Reagan gave him Minnesota

[@ZAGAD-i2x]

@Kebab Remover Well he's on 70 which is 20 more than the number of states

[@dutdut2.059]

prob cause Mondale was from MN

[@xanderbuil0073]

Yeah he campaigned less in ma because he lived there

[@MacGovernor]

Fuck you, he won it in his own right.

[@johnnysalami27]

The last time Minnesota has gone red was 1976

[@BrettCortright52]

Mondale: *Losing by 450 electoral votes* Mondale’s Watch Party: 🤪🕺🏻💃🏻🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@anakinvandyke]

Gotta go out with a bang. Especially when you lose that badly

[@0RatedChess]

Mondale’s Watch Party when Mondale won Minnesota: *YESSSS!!! PARTY EVERYONE!* *music and a lot of dancing plays*

[@armstrongtixid6873]

Correction: > 500

[@vojta4045]

@@armstrongtixid6873 Correction: 450. The concession speech happened before the 11PM closings

[@rodney5969]

I WON IN A LANDSLIDE

[@iisylilia3424]

Yes yes you did

[@bobbywise2313]

Hey Ronnie. How is it going? Is Brezhnev, Andropov, or Chernenko with you?

[@rodney5969]

@@bobbywise2313 Yes.

[@honestmagafanhonestbillsfa452]

Congrats Ronnie.

[@jamesbonnen]

Mondale barely won his own state of Minnesota by 3761 votes

[@Megacooltommydee]

And to think that if Reagan just got 4,000 more votes in Minnesota, he would have become the first president since George Washington to sweep every state in the union. (DC is not a state)

[@lukebutler3299]

Tommy Dee slight correction first president since James Monroe since Monroe also swept every state.

[@keldonmcfarland2969]

@@lukebutler3299 Yep. Everyone overlooks Monroe's re-election in 1820. He ran practically unopposed.

[@keldonmcfarland2969]

@@Megacooltommydee Mondale wasn't able to get above the 50% line. He didn't win with a majority.

[@FAITHandLOGIC]

And they fucking called it with 2% of the vote reporting. I think they jumped the gun on that one.

[@0RatedChess]

“New York, Massachusetts still up” *Sad Rhode Island Noises*

[@J0HNJ0RDAN]

"Red for Reagan, Minnesota for Mondale".. the guy on the right is in simile heaven.

[@AlvinSeville1]

Always better to vote RED instead.

[@stormixgaming8389]

Convenient Alliteration?

[@waterwind2266]

Do you know what a simile is...?

[@stormixgaming8389]

@@waterwind2266 Exactly lmao

[@deweyengelsma3054]

Bro that’s not a simile that’s alliteration my dude

[@VideoAmericanStyle]

Interesting that they had to point out that the “red” states meant Republican/Reagan. The colors were invented for news coverage on color TV and they used to rotate the red/blue every four years but then it stuck with what we know today.

[@royisdabest]

blue for biden, orange for trump

[@Cyginjv6vu]

Red has been associated with the political Left even before mass media.

[@kakelso]

Interesting, I knew that the colors switched at one point, but I didn't realize they used to switch every election cycle.

[@howardagnew8471]

Actually even in the same election, it would differ from news source to news source. Different networks would use different colors.

[@1943fighter]

@@kakelso kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3WTgYKoppaIfM0 Here is a good video about political party colors if you are interested.

[@christianjackson4093]

Ahh yes back when we knew the winner that night. Good times, unlike these days.

[@lol-ku1wl]

0:50 It’s so hilarious to me how they had to zoom in to show the embarrassingly small spec of blue in support for Mondale 😂

[@JackyVSO]

Mondale won if you only count the legal votes.

[@joespice785]

@@JackyVSO considering people had more integrity back then and that Reagan won by 20 million votes. This joke isn't even funny.

[@JackyVSO]

@@joespice785 Sure 20 million is more than the 7 or 8 million Biden won by but it's the same order of magnitude. How do you mean people had more integrity back then?

[@joespice785]

@@JackyVSO for one the Democrats and Republicans didn't flat out hate each other and the people counting the votes were less likely to tamper with them.

[@JackyVSO]

​@@joespice785 Yeah, they probably didn't randomly accuse each other of massive fraud and refuse to concede after losing back then :-(

[@JuicyTaz201]

Which states do you wish to win Mr. Reagan? Reagan: “yes”

[@FBI-ue9qf]

Yo juicy build me a tower

[@FBI-ue9qf]

@Taylor swift SUCKS!!! ???

[@JuicyTaz201]

@@FBI-ue9qf lol 😂

[@badwolf9956]

If I was Reagan, I’d still be mad because I would’ve been so close to getting 50 states.

[@jocabulous]

apparently he wanted mondale to win minnesota so he didn't lose his home state

[@badwolf9956]

@@jocabulous Well that was kind of nice of him I guess

[@victorarredondo304]

@@jocabulous gentleman's sweep

[@somerandomasshole4561]

@Minnesota Vi-KINGS Imagine how pissed the election workers in Minnesota would've been if Reagan asked for a recount.

[@metaldams78]

It’s like losing a no hitter in the 9th inning.

[@henkman00]

This is too close to call, I demand a recount.

[@yournemesis192]

Clearly widespread voter fraud

[@donniefleuryy.29]

so many ballots added in after...

[@Jays6926]

Many dead people voted 😂

[@JackyVSO]

Time will tell who will ultimately win the 1984 presidential election.

[@bryang.8413]

@@Jays6926 where’s the proof?

[@DrGodzilla1954]

Fun fact: out of any president in us history, Ronald has the most electoral votes with 525, with a close second being Roosevelt’s 523.

[@DrGodzilla1954]

@Ross Francis he had 520 electoral votes in that election.

[@kylealexander7024]

523 when we only had 48 states. Roosevelts overall perventage is greater than reagans

[@DrGodzilla1954]

@@kylealexander7024 true. It was Hawaii and Alaska that weren’t states right?

[@kylealexander7024]

@@DrGodzilla1954 correct. The largest win by percentage that wasnt unanimous is madison in 1820. 231 out of 232 votee

[@DrGodzilla1954]

@@kylealexander7024 which president was that?

[@Watcher3223]

I'm thinking of that skit on "The Simpsons..." _"Stop, stop, he's already dead!"_

[@ryanbratoc]

This is how trump 2020 really looked....minus the fraud...

[@noahlonaker2668]

Oh what a dream it would be to see the map be that red again. Not holding my breath on that tho.

[@finchborat]

True It'll never that red again. Good news is, we'll never see a blue version of that map either.

[@landisoliver4441]

I doubt we will see another President as popular as Reagan was at least in this era. Reagan won the 80 and 84 Elections with 2 incredible landslide victories so did Nixon in 72. Most Presidential elections now have been very tight.

[@josephmauro582]

+Landis Oliver *cough* all 4 FDR elections *cough*

[@guodade2239]

+Landis Oliver As I have said, many people were not voting in 1984 - and not voting because the Democratic Party was too conservative for their atheist ideals of radical individualism and radical egalitarianism which increasingly popular heavy metal and rap bands were beginning to preach to the Boomers. The fact that it was a Democrat in Tipper Gore who started the Parents’ Music Resource Center (in 1985) shows that to these people there was little difference between the two major parties, and those who could accept what they offered knew Reagan was a much better and more skilled politician than Mondale. Consequently, the Democrats had no hope from the start, really, with the structures they had in place then. If the Democrats had had a candidate who would have catered to these demands, it’s interesting to speculate how they would have gone - whilst there were votes to gain from the newly eligible, there were also votes to lose. Nonetheless, in 1984 the Democrats were unaware bands like Metallica (whose ‘Ride the Lightning’ was released that year) were beginning to become the voice of the next generation, whilst Pantera were still a glam-metal band in Dallas and Public Enemy and N.W.A. were not to record before 1987.

[@steelcityking7316]

Just wait for Dems to take the whole thing in 2020

[@ElCid48]

SteelCity. You are watching too much MSM. They also predicted Trump would not win in 2016.

[@freakyfornash]

@@steelcityking7316 L.O.L. and Trump's going to seriously "pwn" it in 2020! You just wait, and see too!

[@hamhawk2401]

In 2002, Walter Mondale became the first person to lose a general election in all 50 states when he lost a senate election in Minnesota

[@noakhstrelec8478]

Man, that's tough

[@vadimzdonutube]

True, but he was a last minute replacement for a Senator who died in a plane crash

[@hamhawk2401]

@@vadimzdonutube I know

[@scotth9811]

Mondale carried his HOME state by 2000 votes. Real stud.

[@laurocoman]

The most Alpha move of his whole life.

[@keithdean9149]

What drama? Mondale carried 1 state and DC, that was it. It was the greatest Presidential Election butt kicking since Washington was unanimous.

[@TheMJfromTN]

Probably dramatic because of the unbelievable margin.

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

fdr in 1936 , 528 electoral votes

[@Tornado1994]

1996 was even bigger. President Blythe smoked Dole.

[@TheMJfromTN]

+Tornado1994 We're talking about margin of electoral votes.

[@Tornado1994]

Michael Jones Reagan crushed Mondale in the '84 Electorals and Popular vote. Blythe crushed Dole in 1996 the same way.

[@kungfuninja55]

Hey look. Fairly independent media! Haven't seen that in years

[@Senkino5o]

Don't look back too rosy brother, the left-wing media had near total control back then - There was no alternative news, maybe it wasn't all we thought about like it is today, and personal conversation was more important - But they had a lot of power, you don't see any smiles on that bunch and the news the next day was all about how Reagan was the oldest president ever, not that he won election by almost 20%.

[@katiehenry7]

Hardly! Evil has been in control of all media since it existed.

[@attackperson47]

..They hated reagan. They took every fucking chance to discredit him.

[@attackperson47]

Same with trump, little more hated though.

[@emotionscomeandgo]

Everyone around in the 80s... Were CBS, ABC, nbc, CNN etc entirely dnc lapdogs like they are today? Was there main goal to make Reagan lose? Did they do agenda based reporting? Censor pro-reagan content? Create hysteria? Fake news stories? Did they censor anything that made the Democrats look bad? Were the news anchors emotionally attached to Mondale? Selective outrage? (they didnt care when Obama banned immigration from Iraq. But created mass hysteria when trump followed the same guidelines to make a temporary ban to create better vetting etc). *Im just curious. Jimmy Carter said Trump is the only president facing such ridiculous media resistance* Were they always this bad? I wasnt Alive in the 80s....

[@thespearmeister2251]

I have a lot of admiration for Mondale after seeing this. He was still smiling after Reagan crossed 500. And Hillary couldn't even stop a frown after a 306-232 defeat.

[@briane173]

Because Hillary was and is Imelda Marcos with a similar sense of entitlement and The Face that Launched 1,000 Ugly Faces. Nothing coming out of her mouth since 2016 has any intrinsic value whatsoever -- if it ever did.

[@aperson22222]

So you’re saying that if you lose 306-232, you should bow out gracefully? I agree!

[@HunterMcAwkward]

I can just smell the cigarettes in this video.

[@spider-man3309]

As you can see, this is what "I WON, BY A LOT" really is.

[@maximilianarold]

Ah i See, you are quoting Mondale

[@sillygoose635]

@@maximilianarold nah he means trump

[@JH-wi2xr]

@hyruleharry12345 sure it could! But it has a very *very* small chance of happening, so small in fact, that I would disregard it all together.

[@JH-wi2xr]

@hyruleharry12345 she can say all she wants but she’ll have to prove it in court

[@iisylilia3424]

True lol

[@briantw]

Anyone who thought this was drama wasn't around in 2000 or 2020

[@monstermadness2076]

I miss the 80s. And I wasn't even alive during the 80s.

[@rachelgreen4510]

Unbiased journalism!

[@spconrad9612]

Great decade, loved it

[@bobbywise2313]

I was in high school. You missed bad hair, too much make up. Some good music but also a lot of bad. Contrary to belief today, not too many people wore parachute pants or camo. A few did where I went to school but it was mostly Levi's and Wranglers with a concert T. Concerts T's were of Ozzy, ZZ Top, Iron Maiden, Rush, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, A/C D/C, Journey, Foreigner, Van Halen and you get the idea. We mostly wore Nikes. The leather low tops. Think Back to the Future. There was one year when another brand of shoe was popular. It started with a K. But they disappeared fast. I never owned any. Oh some girls were wearing Chic jeans. They were sexy in my teenage 1984 opinion. For whatever reason overhauls were popular a couple of years. Mostly with the jocks but even the girls were wearing them. Big news stories were the Tylonel poisonings, the 1984 Olympics, the Falkland Islands and the invasion of Grenade. But mostly it was the USSR. They had 3 leaders die in a short time. The cold war was heating up with Russia in Afghanistan and Reagan increasing the defense budget. He called them the evil empire which made them uneasy. We lived in fear of nuclear war every day. It did not dictate our lives but we talked about it often. The television movie The Day After scared the shit out of us. My American History teacher actually showed it to us several days after it showed on TV. So I got scared twice. I was pretty convinced Nuclear war was inevitable. I did a survey of my friends and teachers. Many of my teachers felt we would have a nuclear war within the next ten years. My Spanish teacher, who was also my World History teacher actually said it would be much sooner than ten years. The consequence of feeling the world will end any day is why even bother to try in school. I went through this phase. Later I learned many teens at this time had this issue. Thank God for Gorbachev. He and Reagan developed a respect and friendship. After a long meeting with Gorbachev Reagan was asked if he still felt the USSR was the evil empire. He just answered no. This was the beginning of the end of the USSR. They could not out spend outspend us on defense and they actually believed SDI could work. Of course we are just now reaching the point where SDI might be feasible, but some in the USSR thought we could pull it off back then. Was it a bluff by Reagan or did he really think it was possible? Maybe a little of both. Reagan rightly believed the USSR had to be approached through a position of strength. This was what his tremendous defense budget was about. Of course it also caused a big defecit. But bringing down the USSR seemed worth it. Both Reagan and Gorbachev deserve credit for the cold war coming to an end. Yeltsin gets credit too. He liked to drink a lot though.. Don't get me wrong. The cold war never truly ended. The Russians just have not been an economic or military power since the fall of the USSR. But Putin is a hardliner and if they get their economy going watch out. I think to a large extent the cold war united America against a common enemy. We no longer have a huge evil empire facing us. So we have created enemies with ourselves. But again the big hair and makeup was insane. Like most middle aged men, I wish I could go back and do a lot of things differently. It was the best of times and the worst of times.

[@bobbywise2313]

@Dutch van der Linde This is true.

[@kamham5222]

Ive been trying to get back to the 80s during the pandemic by smoking a ton o pot

[@Gabowsk]

This was the only election that everyone didn't get mad at Florida.

[@kakelso]

In what election besides 2000 did everyone get mad at Florida?

[@endermeap6488]

We don’t need an election to be mad at Florida.

[@kakelso]

@@endermeap6488 Haha, ok, well I'm sorry y'all are mad that Florida is so awesome. There have been a heck of a lot of people moving here lately, though, so I don't think everyone's mad at us!

[@mattioder]

what's really amazing here is listening to the news anchors it sounds like they're actually presenting unbiased news watch this and then watch ABC today or worse watch CNN it's not even news anymore

[@rachelgreen4510]

Exactly! That's what i miss!

[@NAH7D]

Mondale should have got the lawyers in with it being so close.

[@randidoesthings]

KZbin: hey you wanna watch the news from ‘84 tonight? Me: uhhh yeah sure

[@treydavis5894]

🤣🤣🤣

[@babygirl6789]

Same lol

[@lauradorsey9562]

Same

[@josh18230]

Liberal anchor: Reagan may have won but Mondale created a wall that kept him from winning all 50 states. Ahahaha

[@doggoswift6896]

Haha they would say that too!

[@pmv2015]

@jo e I am pretty sure that at that time, democrats were the more conservative ones

[@MKD1101]

I am so disappointed of Reagan because *He didn't win Minnesota!*

[@connormitchell7707]

It’s a gentleman’s sweep

[@connormitchell7707]

He could have won

[@yurayt1913]

I'm pretty sure someone in the white house asked what regan wanted for Christmas, and he said "Minnesota would have been nice"

[@GadZip]

@@yurayt1913 yeah he did

[@davidmarlow6317]

Coming from a left-leaning Minnesotan, I still don’t know why Reagan didn’t win there.

[@quixvids7464]

That election was so close, the closest ever! We need a recount!

[@TheDiamondRealm]

This is so funny! Regan 458 Mondale 3! Hahahaha!!!

[@highplains7777]

I am one of the youngest people who voted for Reagan. I turned 18 just 20 days before the election in 1984. I registered to vote on my birthday just so I could vote for Reagan.

[@ericpalacios920]

Not a republican but that's really cool! You made history haha

[@joannemartin3952]

What a beautiful country we had.

[@andysmom117]

"had" being the operative word

[@w.ryanbutler8097]

Before the internet, before cell phones, before personal computers…yes, bai in the dark ages we were able to call election results on the night of the election. And we were using paper ballots.

[@seanv7934]

Back in the day when it didn’t take a week to count votes lol

[@lokeshwaranvr]

Washington DC be like: Why do we have elections here? Washington DC Blue since eternity

[@jimroberts9327]

Of the 51 locations granting Electoral College votes it’s the only one that has never gone Republican. Every state has gone Red or Blue at least once.

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

Too see if they get a 90% or 80% victory for the Democratic candidate.

[@aperson22222]

It must be hard to be a newscaster on a night like this. When the outcome is so obvious you really have to get creative to try to keep viewers interested.

[@Yobbie72]

where was the drama? Reagan wiped out Mondale, everyone knew it would happen.

[@cactusjackNV]

If you read the description it will tell you.

[@Yobbie72]

thats not much of a 'drama'.

[@Yobbie72]

Election 2000, over Florida, thats drama.

[@hotwax9376]

+Ciaran Ryan True, but the left-wing media was so desperate for Mondale to win that they cooked up headlines saying that he was gaining in the polls. The drama here was in whether Reagan would get all 50 states.

[@whiff1962]

+Ciaran Ryan That was, in spite of the protestations to the contrary, fair and square. I was no Bush fan, btw; I am not a big govt. Republican.

[@ryanhasproblems]

KZbin has brought us here together to... I don’t really know.

[@607]

banana I'm not sure either.

[@SpiderMan-pc9oi]

Maybe Cause Cod Black Ops Cold War

[@jonasmortier9056]

0:55 this is just so funny/humiliating xD

[@heisenberg6241]

Who else got it recomended in 2020

[@illmvtic6358]

Stop asking this question you dumb fuck let people read something fun

[@seymourfatboy]

What a close race.... (lol)

[@EricEbac22]

seymourfatboy No, the race wasn't even close from the beginning; Reagan won 66% of the popular vote and won every state with exception of Minnesota and the District of Columbia (both carried by Walter Mondale) in the electoral vote.

[@APOCALYPSE_X-MEN]

EricEbac22 Reagan won 58.8 percent of the popular vote, not 66 percent.

[@Victoryinourstars33]

2020 presidential election: *pathetic*

[@roy9776]

Okay George

[@89Ayten]

And the leftist blue, right wing red trend was born out of this. America is the only country that designates its liberal party with the color blue when it's traditionally a red color.

[@andremaxwell521]

Labour isn't Liberal and much of Europe's Liberal parties are blue or another colour (UK Lib party yellow) with leftist/socdem/socialist parties being Red Red is the colour of "Republicanism" even tho the GOP is ofc right-wing. It works

[@Sokrabiades]

@MeisterCody The Conservative Party is blue. Labor is red.

[@benlewis1087]

MeisterCody That’s utter horseshit, you clearly aren’t from Britain

[@Justinian506]

@MeisterCody no the tories (conservatives) are blue and labor are red

[@alcarbo8613]

Actually the trend started with ABC in 1980 by 1984 CBS switched to GOP Red Democrat Blue

[@dgcmusi]

When real journalists had integrity....

[@travisdial1730]

Not sure about that. Brokaw referred to Raegan as Mr. Raegan instead of President Raegan as he should have been called. It’s not that big of a deal but the media was just as dishonest and biased as they are now. They just hid it more back then.

[@borgCube100]

Fuck off you moronic fuck

[@21reesethomas]

Back when an election took 5 minutes, not 5 days to announce a winner

[@ur3934]

Because they didn't let the whole US to mail in ballot😂

[@TheRealCatof]

@@ur3934 Because the whole US wasn't stuck st hone due to a plague

[@ur3934]

@@TheRealCatof the liberals saying "don't vote in person" were the same people going out and marching for "bidens victory " its a bunch of hypocrisy

[@TheRealCatof]

@@ur3934 Well, they were wearing masks and socially distancing for the most part. But, they were going out to protest government sponsored murder. Which is a worthy cause.

[@kinsleycow148]

Actually, it didn't take 5 minutes then either. What you see are projections, and the electorates don't even vote until December 14th. Also, mail in ballots weren't allowed to be counted until election day or the morning after in states like georgia and pennsylvania so that's why it took a bit longer.

[@btez31]

Back when the country was principled and valued. Ah, the good old days

[@observeandreport2011]

And we didn't have brainwashed college kids running the place God gives us back Reagan and will give you Obama

[@travelator3035]

Back when the country was populated by sane people and colleges weren't the bastion of the SJWs

[@VictorBR45]

@Amon Ra Huh. This comment didn't age well.

[@quantumwitcher9376]

Lmfaoo this country has never been principled and valued. It got away with acting as if it was when that was far from the truth. I don't know how people can be so obsessed with a country. Couldn't be me.

[@icemachine79]

Back when the country _pretended_ to be principled and valued. That's why the GOP chose an actor to lead their party. It's funny how Republicans continually rail against Hollywood but keep choosing actors as their candidates.

[@ChiyaQT]

that landslide damn.

[@tencorgmail4075]

1984: Look at this drama in this election night here! 2020: You've ain't seen nothing yet.

[@guillermoelnino]

globalist te rrorists were getting their moltov cocktails ready in case things didn't go their way.

[@jett_power]

2000: Hold my beer.

[@Jck9102]

We want Fritz? What a joke! 49/50 states. Hardly ANYONE wanted. Reagan all the way.

[@guodade2239]

I am sure some people thought the 1984 election was a conservative turn for the US that would be lasting. In fact, academia and the working classes of the Boom Generation were extremely busy focusing on dismantling the traditional moral order of Christianity in favour of radical individualism and absolute rights to do what one wants. These people at the time were not catered for by the union-focused “old” Democratic Party, which was also too Christian for their strong atheism. Consequently, many people in the Northeast and West Coast (in numerous counties of which Mondale actually did better than Carter in 1980) had no candidate to represent them, though I am not sure it was these people who account for the large numbers who did not vote. With the growth of the radical gay and unrestricted abortion rights movements among the working classes, the Democratic Party had a large and growing constituency to rebuild around - and doing so gave it the 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2012 elections.

[@gxbasemedia]

guodade Reagan's farewell address warning: "Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it..."

[@christhorton6512]

James Kingsmill I talked to a Democrat back then who told me how much he hated Reagan. I said, "Well, I voted for Reagan (meaning in 1984)." He said, "Well, I did too." I said, "What?" He said, "Well, I can't stand him, but of course I voted for Reagan. I mean, c'mon, who was going to vote for Mondale???"

[@EricEbac22]

+James Kingsmill Who the hell was Fritz?

[@billsmith5985]

Fritz Freling--well known cartoon creator.......

[@andrewjackson7758]

What drama? Reagan got 96% of the vote.

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

96 percent of electoral 54 percent popular

[@johnjames9922]

58.8% actually

[@johnguy3155]

Andrew Jackson it's a joke. It's obvious Reagan won by a lot

[@dingers5days]

Drama that Reagan would sweep all the states ( besides DC) I wish he did sweep, but alas he did not.

[@ChristopherSaindon]

It was over in a heartbeat. :)

[@Googoogagamf]

Red illinois? I must be drunk.

[@leninm.plazas1922]

That's one for the Gipper :)

[@alanmei2042]

Reagen 525 electoral votes F.D.R 523 electoral votes

[@firgasz2920]

Trump had more electoral votes than Reagan and FDR together!!! xD Just ask him!

[@oli27268]

Firgasz why are you replying on a 2 year old comment? Weirdo

[@garysheldonjr8379]

@@firgasz2920 no he only got 304 which isn't even a landslide stfu.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

@@garysheldonjr8379 304(6) is good victory overall, i'd say 400 or more should count as a landslide.

[@davidhood9712]

@@oli27268 Why is your comment 2 years old? Weirdo

[@idkman76]

That 1 blue dot in DC at around 1:08 tells you everything you need to know.

[@AFT_05G]

The entire federal government and the establishment is controlled by the will of Democrats since early 20th century.

[@cpsclan2447]

Media if this was in 2016: Too Close to call

[@marcparella]

I bet Jimmy Carter voted for Reagan in 1984.

[@slshusker]

A relative told me her school teachers were cheering the next day. Times change.

[@righteousgod8376]

Reagan: 525 electoral votes. Mondale: 13 electoral votes. A historic blowout.

[@mr.squidward6947]

The time when people looked at policies and not just voted based on the party and there weren’t any blue/red states.

[@heisenmountainb6854]

ok squidwards

[@TsdsxSansTSSunStone]

Tbh Reagan was only voted in, not because of his policies although that was part of it, because carter had failed to end the cold war and they wanted someone who was tough in communism and someone that wasn’t a democrat.

[@blainedriedger9310]

@@TsdsxSansTSSunStone so you mean Reagan wasn’t voted in based on policy, he was voted in because of his foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union. So he was voted in based on policy than.

[@TsdsxSansTSSunStone]

@@blainedriedger9310 I said policies meaning more than one type. Literally just because he was tough on communism. No other reason. Fear mongering basically.

[@hb712]

The Solid South was a unified Democrat block from the Civil War to around the time of Nixon...

[@vibratingwafflez3551]

We need another Reagan. Badly.

[@kiwimapping1010]

We have Ron Paul but hes a libertarian Now

[@23dlc]

Vibrating Wafflez Ron Paul Rand Paul and now President Trump

[@DealerJack10]

Vibrating Wafflez We have another Reagan, President Trump

[@abangemirzaihanabangzulkip9502]

@@DealerJack10 not really, Trump is more similar to George W Bush.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

@@abangemirzaihanabangzulkip9502 Just remove the crappy economic policies from bush and we're good.

[@beakedmonk3981]

0:56 I love how they had to zoom in to show Mondale's blue dot in D.C. 😂

[@solarxknight7953]

2:12 thats emberrasing for Mondale

[@firgasz2920]

thats what the liberal media propagate in 2016 for trump... "landslide hilary"....

[@honestmagafanhonestbillsfa452]

I screenshoted that lol.

[@captainhaire]

Not a lot of drama on this night.

[@CapitalistSpy]

thompson haire comparing to 2016 😂😂😂

[@kaedeakamatsu1583]

comparing to 2020 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@captainhaire]

We won’t see another like this for 20 years. See y’all is ‘24!

[@posysdogovych2065]

It's so weird to think that West Virginia - one of the reddest states in terms of presidential elections - was once so blue that Mondale's campaign felt a bit of optimism that they could defeat an extremely popular Republican incumbent president there.

[@AFT_05G]

West Virginia was very blue because these were the times when Democrats were actually the party of the people

[@rajeshwariable]

I wondered how today's polls would have predicted this election.

[@Cardah]

Still too close to call....

[@joshschmitz6211]

Hard to say. Times are different. I wonder if they had 100’s of thousand votes for the losing side show up at 4am back then

[@roryschmidt5776]

Today's polls already existed in 1984. They got it very right.

[@damienlockhart6288]

@@holdenmccann Dude, everyone knows that happened. Just go rewatch the election LOL. Oh wait... You are too stupid to see whats in front of you. Your stupid ass brain is so far left that it aint working anymore. You just want free stuff right? Why not move to Venezuela? They are socialist, just like you prefer. Oh wait, you dont wanna starve, you just want free college and free everything else, but not the consequences that come with it.

[@wendellnovais]

@@damienlockhart6288 They are pretending there weren't fraud,if Biden was winning and Trump passed him out of nowhere at 4 AM they wouldn't be acting like that,U.S.A. really is the easiest place in the world to steal an election,no watermarks on ballots,people voting without ID,poll workers not letting people see the counting,a total mess,y'all will never get a fair election again if the democrats suceed with this fraud.

[@johnalanelson]

Virginia is primarily a red state but is heavily infested with people who work in DC.

[@nick56677]

2:13 ffs that is an all out rape LOL

[@alexau9657]

NBC: To close to call.

[@Nameless10949]

Copied comment

[@alexau9657]

No?

[@alexau9657]

No one else said it and I thought of it myself.

[@Nameless10949]

@@alexau9657 there’s a comment that is the exact same that got 15k likes

[@alexau9657]

This video?

[@MMAfighter38113]

Mondale had a bad night.

[@EricEbac22]

+msmithstud Yes, he did; from the get-go, Walter Mondale was not favored to win the election by a long shot, even though he did win at least a couple of debates. In the end, however, Reagan, as I said in an earlier comment, slaughtered Mondale in the popular vote (essentially a 2-1 margin), and also in the Electoral vote (525-13). The only candidate to do worse in the Electoral vote was Alf Landon in 1936. According to Wikipedia, Landon only won 8 Electoral votes, which tied him with William Howard Taft, who, 24 years earlier (1912), won only 8 Electoral votes himself in a bid for re-election. Woodrow Wilson won the election that year (1912) with 435 Electoral votes, followed by Theodore Roosevelt with 88 (Teddy was running on a third-party ticket, BTW), and finally, Taft with 8.

[@DFandV]

msmithstud That's an understatement. He got slaughtered that's a better title.

[@firgasz2920]

taft only carried so few states because of the split of the republican party in 1912...

[@buckspa]

I so much wish I could go back and live in 1984 again.

[@realazduffman]

Have to figure Jennings is so bored here that he is trying to get ABC to just re-run "Dynasty" and go home

[@Burningdaylighter]

This is absolutely insane. I’m a democrat and I think this is extremely impressive for one candidate to completely sweep and win every state except one. Can you imagine that happing now. I wonder if we will ever see anything like this again. The country was so United on one candidate. Now it’s so divisive.

[@NickFoxSucks]

Well there was also different ways to receive information back then and the reason elections are so close now is because of the internet

[@bobbywise2313]

No we probably won't. We have become a nation which votes based only on party. Then you have the 24 hour news cycle and social media.

[@doctorx1924]

@@NickFoxSucks agreed. I would also say demographics are also very different today. America was over 80 percent white back then. Now it's only 60 percent. You would have to have a candidate that can appeal to all races today to have that type of landslide victory.

[@JR-fh9tc]

Obama came close.

[@doctorx1924]

@@JR-fh9tc he didn't even come close to that type of landslide, and I say this as someone who voted for him twice.

[@gybx4094]

I'm old and I voted for Ronald Reagan twice! My honor and privilege!

[@DealerJack10]

Gy Bx I'm 21 years old and I would voted for Reagan in a heart beat

[@UteFaithful]

Gy Bx I'm 16 and I wish I could've voted for Reagan twice

[@ronnettnorfleet7086]

+Andrew Hartmann I wish that I could voted for Reagan too. I was 3 in 1980 and 7 1984.

[@MoonlightXYZ]

Wish I was alive to see Reagan as president, though he was my father first presidential choice back in 1980.

[@Xakslied]

Fuuuuuuck you all

[@Jck9102]

What drama?

[@EricEbac22]

Actually, James Kingsmill, I have to agree with you; there really was no drama in the 1984 election, because Reagan was clearly favored to win the election from the get-go.

[@EricEbac22]

+invincible Good point; unfortunately, though, he didn't. Mondale won his native Minnesota (which has not been carried by a Republican since Nixon in 1972) and the District of Columbia (which has NEVER been won by a Republican candidate), while Reagan swept the other 49 states.

[@isaiah9601]

If Jake Paul vs Nate Robinson were an election:

[@mikewazowski350]

Back when news broadcasts were legit

[@kilroy987]

Nice to see a candidate that the nation as a whole mostly wanted as president, rather than simply voting for party.

[@bobbywise2313]

It was a different time. The media was much less influential and we had no social media. People voted based on their pocketbooks. Don't raise the price of my Cheerios. But it was also about bringing down the USSR at that time. I encourage everyone to watch their second debate. Reagan actually looked bad in the first debate. He was clearly having an off night and the race was close. But the second debate was on international issues. Reagan came out way on top of that one.

[@tbewin1z143]

@@bobbywise2313 The '84 election wasn't close all of 1984!!! The last close poll was in late 1983!!!

[@PoolGyall5441]

Imagine if there was Twitter while this was going on now that would be fun

[@Crews1]

you live on the internet, sad

[@PoolGyall5441]

@@Crews1 when did I say that?

[@BabySonicGT]

He would be dead

[@H7B2ify]

Wow such drama! It was thrilling! Bush vs Gore can never compare to the closeness of this race!

[@GetMeOutOfMyMisery]

Nor the election of 1876!

[@sragoss]

Brinkley and Jennings, two consummate professionals. A far cry from today’s news hacks.

[@rachelgreen4510]

Indeed!

[@gianlucatartaro1335]

What a simple time… I wish I was alive before the country only had a handful of states that actually got to pick the president :/

[@finchborat]

I do wish I was alive to see Reagan and the 80s. I was born during Papa Bush's last yr and I'm convinced we'll never see a candidate get 400 or even 500 electoral votes ever again. As you noted, it comes down to a handful of states.

[@Ohpeaches87]

If they had Mail in votes and no ID laws back then that map would be all blue.

[@thecomedypilot5894]

True. That's very true, and sad how that is now today's reality.

[@finchborat]

I don't think voter ID laws were around back then. I could be wrong. I think Reagan would've still won if mail in ballot were around.

[@WDRowlett]

My Dad said at the time, "Well, good for him! At least he won his home state".

[@AdamKlownzinger]

I’ve always hated political “decorum”, I’ve always thought you play to win *especially* in politics more than anywhere else, but I actually appreciate Reagan deliberately letting Mondale win his home state. Not dedicating as many resources to Minnesota, not demanding a recount in Minnesota, etc. I think this is a case where you can reasonably say that demanding a recount in Minnesota would be going too far

[@Nn-3]

Literally 1984

[@Nn-3]

@voicevitality7197 It's a pun. Firstly, the video clip is from 1984. Secondly, it's an ironic usage of the phrase, "Literally 1984", which has a meaning of its own.

[@saino2001]

What an AWESOME night that was!

[@briane173]

What an awesome DECADE. Especially for those of us in the military at that time. After getting spat on for 12 years prior to Reagan's ascendance, the military was finally treated with the respect it deserved -- with a pay scale that reflected that and a newfound appreciation from the general pop. That was despite Academia's chest-beating attempts to paint Reagan as a dunderhead and a John Birch-caliber neanderthal, neither of which was the case. I can assure you it was a terrible time to be a Liberal Arts professor in the 80s.

[@Ryguy-lg2xz]

This type of result will never happen again

[@zBMatt]

This country is slowly changing to all blue. Trump has polarized the GOP and split it by those who want what’s right and those who want to do whatever they want.

[@Ryguy-lg2xz]

@@zBMatt if that’s the case then how come Trump got 99% of the vote in the Republican primary in 2020

[@zBMatt]

@@Ryguy-lg2xz Firstly the incumbent always gets that many votes in their respective primaries and secondly even if there were only 100 republicans and 99 republicans voted for Trump he would still have 99% in the republican primary. The republican primary is the republican primary because it only counts republicans, not democrats and not independents.