Election night drama 1984

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  • @0RatedChess
    @0RatedChess 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6646

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

    • @fligthxgaming8398
      @fligthxgaming8398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I know

    • @Aarontank24
      @Aarontank24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Ikr

    • @khoahuynh5077
      @khoahuynh5077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      such a close call, right?:)

    • @crazytigerspy9420
      @crazytigerspy9420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      Too close the call waiting on Nevada

    • @oof4623
      @oof4623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

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

  • @MaximusMC1011
    @MaximusMC1011 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4870

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

    • @fundude4566
      @fundude4566 8 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      Still has a democratic governor though

    • @MaidenUtah1
      @MaidenUtah1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

    • @MaximusMC1011
      @MaximusMC1011 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

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

    • @bbigjohnson069
      @bbigjohnson069 8 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      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
      @JavierPwns 8 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      +bbigjohnson069 reagan was gov of california

  • @orangeflaws8088
    @orangeflaws8088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2228

    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
      @luiscastanon6031 4 ปีที่แล้ว +312

      now that's sportmanship

    • @aavocado7948
      @aavocado7948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @Sloppy Pancake LMFAOO SAME THO IT WOULD BE GREAT

    • @alphadoughnut2651
      @alphadoughnut2651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

    • @BarginsGalore
      @BarginsGalore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

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

    • @alphadoughnut2651
      @alphadoughnut2651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Sloppy Pancake you mean red?

  • @nrkgalt
    @nrkgalt 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2339

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

    • @bbigjohnson069
      @bbigjohnson069 8 ปีที่แล้ว +269

      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
      @coolguy02536 7 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      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
      @mdp1644 7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      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
      @mdp1644 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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
      @TonyMontana-qv8cx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      nrkgalt Mondale did get a participation trophy though.

  • @marion817
    @marion817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3620

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

    • @ELS-tone
      @ELS-tone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +230

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

    • @salaheddinesif2002
      @salaheddinesif2002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      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
      @jaketheflame02 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

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

    • @maxc1214
      @maxc1214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “United” irony

    • @Pro-nz9fj
      @Pro-nz9fj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Fuck minnesota, all my homies hate minnesota

  • @rajeshwariable
    @rajeshwariable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2090

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

    • @Flash4ML
      @Flash4ML 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      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
      @jacktheIV44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Flash4ML no this was T H E landslide

    • @cowboycurtis2229
      @cowboycurtis2229 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @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
      @Flash4ML 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@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
      @Flash4ML 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @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
    @TimmyTheTinman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +603

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

  • @arandompersonfromtheintern9596
    @arandompersonfromtheintern9596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1935

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

    • @moelester8307
      @moelester8307 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Jimmy Carter You we're too.

    • @MKD1101
      @MKD1101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@moelester8307 were*

    • @joseoku6946
      @joseoku6946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @brexil4133
      @brexil4133 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jimmy Carter you copy

    • @Scenariania
      @Scenariania 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @jamesbonnen
    @jamesbonnen 9 ปีที่แล้ว +933

    Mondale barely won his own state of Minnesota by 3761 votes

    • @Megacooltommydee
      @Megacooltommydee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      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
      @lukebutler3299 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

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

    • @keldonmcfarland2969
      @keldonmcfarland2969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

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

    • @keldonmcfarland2969
      @keldonmcfarland2969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @FAITHandLOGIC
      @FAITHandLOGIC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @victorarredondo304
    @victorarredondo304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1359

    The gentlemen's sweep. Reagan gave him Minnesota

    • @ZAGAD-i2x
      @ZAGAD-i2x 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @dutdut2.059
      @dutdut2.059 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      prob cause Mondale was from MN

    • @xanderbuil0073
      @xanderbuil0073 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah he campaigned less in ma because he lived there

    • @MacGovernor
      @MacGovernor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fuck you, he won it in his own right.

    • @johnnysalami27
      @johnnysalami27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The last time Minnesota has gone red was 1976

  • @RYANG6916
    @RYANG6916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +668

    Mondale: My mom voted for me.

  • @BrettCortright52
    @BrettCortright52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +675

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

    • @anakinvandyke
      @anakinvandyke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

    • @0RatedChess
      @0RatedChess 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @armstrongtixid6873
      @armstrongtixid6873 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Correction: > 500

    • @vojta4045
      @vojta4045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @J0HNJ0RDAN
    @J0HNJ0RDAN 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1611

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

    • @AlvinSeville1
      @AlvinSeville1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Always better to vote RED instead.

    • @stormixgaming8389
      @stormixgaming8389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Convenient Alliteration?

    • @waterwind2266
      @waterwind2266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Do you know what a simile is...?

    • @stormixgaming8389
      @stormixgaming8389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@waterwind2266 Exactly lmao

    • @deweyengelsma3054
      @deweyengelsma3054 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

  • @0RatedChess
    @0RatedChess 4 ปีที่แล้ว +322

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

  • @henkman00
    @henkman00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +719

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

    • @yournemesis192
      @yournemesis192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Clearly widespread voter fraud

    • @donniefleuryy.29
      @donniefleuryy.29 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      so many ballots added in after...

    • @Jays6926
      @Jays6926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Many dead people voted 😂

    • @JackyVSO
      @JackyVSO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

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

    • @bryang.8413
      @bryang.8413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Jays6926 where’s the proof?

  • @Watcher3223
    @Watcher3223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

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

  • @VideoAmericanStyle
    @VideoAmericanStyle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    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
      @royisdabest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      blue for biden, orange for trump

    • @Cyginjv6vu
      @Cyginjv6vu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @kakelso
      @kakelso 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @howardagnew8471
      @howardagnew8471 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @1943fighter
      @1943fighter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kakelso th-cam.com/video/yD0POrq1UFk/w-d-xo.html Here is a good video about political party colors if you are interested.

  • @keithdean9149
    @keithdean9149 8 ปีที่แล้ว +881

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

    • @TheMJfromTN
      @TheMJfromTN 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Probably dramatic because of the unbelievable margin.

    • @jasonraczkowski6001
      @jasonraczkowski6001 8 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      fdr in 1936 , 528 electoral votes

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      1996 was even bigger. President Blythe smoked Dole.

    • @TheMJfromTN
      @TheMJfromTN 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @landisoliver4441
    @landisoliver4441 9 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    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
      @josephmauro582 9 ปีที่แล้ว +25

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

    • @guodade2239
      @guodade2239 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +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
      @steelcityking7316 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Just wait for Dems to take the whole thing in 2020

    • @ElCid48
      @ElCid48 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @freakyfornash
      @freakyfornash 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @DrGodzilla1954
    @DrGodzilla1954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +597

    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
      @DrGodzilla1954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @kylealexander7024
      @kylealexander7024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

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

    • @DrGodzilla1954
      @DrGodzilla1954 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @kylealexander7024
      @kylealexander7024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @DrGodzilla1954
      @DrGodzilla1954 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kylealexander7024 which president was that?

  • @lol-ku1wl
    @lol-ku1wl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    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
      @JackyVSO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mondale won if you only count the legal votes.

    • @joespice785
      @joespice785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @JackyVSO
      @JackyVSO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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
      @joespice785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@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
      @JackyVSO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @rodney5969
    @rodney5969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    I WON IN A LANDSLIDE

  • @badwolf9956
    @badwolf9956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

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

    • @jocabulous
      @jocabulous 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

    • @badwolf9956
      @badwolf9956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @victorarredondo304
      @victorarredondo304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@jocabulous gentleman's sweep

    • @somerandomasshole4561
      @somerandomasshole4561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @metaldams78
      @metaldams78 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @JuicyTaz201
    @JuicyTaz201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

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

    • @FBI-ue9qf
      @FBI-ue9qf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yo juicy build me a tower

    • @FBI-ue9qf
      @FBI-ue9qf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Taylor swift SUCKS!!! ???

    • @JuicyTaz201
      @JuicyTaz201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FBI-ue9qf lol 😂

  • @MKD1101
    @MKD1101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +239

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

    • @connormitchell7707
      @connormitchell7707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s a gentleman’s sweep

    • @connormitchell7707
      @connormitchell7707 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He could have won

    • @yurayt1913
      @yurayt1913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @GadZip
      @GadZip 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yurayt1913 yeah he did

    • @davidmarlow6317
      @davidmarlow6317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @scotth9811
    @scotth9811 8 ปีที่แล้ว +87

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

    • @laurocoman
      @laurocoman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The most Alpha move of his whole life.

  • @kungfuninja55
    @kungfuninja55 8 ปีที่แล้ว +661

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

    • @Senkino5o
      @Senkino5o 8 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      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
      @katiehenry7 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @attackperson47
      @attackperson47 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @attackperson47
      @attackperson47 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Same with trump, little more hated though.

    • @emotionscomeandgo
      @emotionscomeandgo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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....

  • @NAH7D
    @NAH7D 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

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

  • @Yobbie72
    @Yobbie72 10 ปีที่แล้ว +330

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

    • @cactusjackNV
      @cactusjackNV 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If you read the description it will tell you.

    • @Yobbie72
      @Yobbie72 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats not much of a 'drama'.

    • @Yobbie72
      @Yobbie72 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Election 2000, over Florida, thats drama.

    • @hotwax9376
      @hotwax9376 9 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      +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
      @whiff1962 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +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.

  • @hamhawk2401
    @hamhawk2401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    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
      @noakhstrelec8478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Man, that's tough

    • @vadimzdonutube
      @vadimzdonutube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @hamhawk2401
      @hamhawk2401 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vadimzdonutube I know

  • @josh18230
    @josh18230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

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

    • @doggoswift6896
      @doggoswift6896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha they would say that too!

    • @pmv2015
      @pmv2015 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @McAwkwardRob
    @McAwkwardRob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I can just smell the cigarettes in this video.

  • @Gabowsk
    @Gabowsk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

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

    • @kakelso
      @kakelso 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @endermeap6488
      @endermeap6488 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @kakelso
      @kakelso 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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!

  • @randidoesthings
    @randidoesthings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

  • @quixvids7464
    @quixvids7464 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

  • @89Ayten
    @89Ayten 11 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    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
      @andremaxwell521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @Sokrabiades 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

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

    • @benlewis1087
      @benlewis1087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @Justinian506
      @Justinian506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @alcarbo8613
      @alcarbo8613 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @spider-man3309
    @spider-man3309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

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

    • @maximilianarold
      @maximilianarold 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah i See, you are quoting Mondale

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@maximilianarold nah he means trump

    • @JH-wi2xr
      @JH-wi2xr 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @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
      @JH-wi2xr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @iisylilia3424
      @iisylilia3424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True lol

  • @tencorgmail4075
    @tencorgmail4075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @guillermoelnino
      @guillermoelnino 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @monstermadness2076
    @monstermadness2076 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

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

    • @rachelgreen4510
      @rachelgreen4510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unbiased journalism!

    • @spconrad9612
      @spconrad9612 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great decade, loved it

    • @bobbywise2313
      @bobbywise2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @bobbywise2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Dutch van der Linde This is true.

    • @kamham5222
      @kamham5222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @lokeshwaranvr
    @lokeshwaranvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @jimroberts9327
      @jimroberts9327 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @AVeryRandomPerson 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @TheDiamondRealm
    @TheDiamondRealm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

  • @thespearmeister2251
    @thespearmeister2251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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
      @briane173 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @aperson22222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @ryanhasproblems
    @ryanhasproblems 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    TH-cam has brought us here together to... I don’t really know.

    • @607
      @607 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      banana I'm not sure either.

    • @SpiderMan-pc9oi
      @SpiderMan-pc9oi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe Cause Cod Black Ops Cold War

  • @ChiyaQT
    @ChiyaQT 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    that landslide damn.

  • @highplains7777
    @highplains7777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    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
      @ericpalacios920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @aperson22222
    @aperson22222 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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.

  • @nick56677
    @nick56677 8 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    2:13 ffs that is an all out rape LOL

  • @noahlonaker2668
    @noahlonaker2668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @beakedmonk3981
    @beakedmonk3981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @btez31
    @btez31 8 ปีที่แล้ว +281

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

    • @observeandreport2011
      @observeandreport2011 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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

    • @travelator3035
      @travelator3035 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

    • @VictorBR45
      @VictorBR45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @quantumwitcher9376
      @quantumwitcher9376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      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
      @icemachine79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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.

  • @VictoryinourStars66
    @VictoryinourStars66 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    2020 presidential election: *pathetic*

    • @roy9776
      @roy9776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Okay George

  • @mattioder
    @mattioder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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

  • @christianjackson4093
    @christianjackson4093 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @andrewjackson7758
    @andrewjackson7758 8 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    What drama? Reagan got 96% of the vote.

    • @jasonraczkowski6001
      @jasonraczkowski6001 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      96 percent of electoral
      54 percent popular

    • @johnjames9922
      @johnjames9922 8 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      58.8% actually

    • @johnguy3155
      @johnguy3155 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @dingers5days
      @dingers5days 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @ChristopherSaindon
      @ChristopherSaindon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was over in a heartbeat. :)

  • @posysdogovych2065
    @posysdogovych2065 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    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
      @AFT_05G 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @21reesethomas
    @21reesethomas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @ur3934
      @ur3934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @ur3934
      @ur3934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @President Joe Biden Makes Trumpanzees Cry the liberals saying "don't vote in person" were the same people going out and marching for "bidens victory " its a bunch of hypocrisy

    • @kinsleycow148
      @kinsleycow148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @ur3934
      @ur3934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kinsleycow148 mail in ballots shouldn't have been allowed it was kinda stupid

    • @wendellnovais
      @wendellnovais 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @President Joe Biden Makes Trumpanzees Cry "Goverment sponsored murder"...Yeah sure,everytime some worthless thug dies is because of _racism_ ...

  • @Burningdaylighter
    @Burningdaylighter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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
      @NickFoxSucks 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @bobbywise2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @doctorx1924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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
      @JR-fh9tc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obama came close.

    • @doctorx1924
      @doctorx1924 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @leninm.plazas1922
    @leninm.plazas1922 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    That's one for the Gipper :)

  • @solarxknight7953
    @solarxknight7953 8 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    2:12 thats emberrasing for Mondale

    • @firgasz2920
      @firgasz2920 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @honestmagafanhonestbillsfa452
      @honestmagafanhonestbillsfa452 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I screenshoted that lol.

  • @heisenberg6241
    @heisenberg6241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Who else got it recomended in 2020

    • @illmvtic6358
      @illmvtic6358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @hiTCAM00
    @hiTCAM00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Media if this was in 2016: Too Close to call

  • @jonasmortier9056
    @jonasmortier9056 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    0:55 this is just so funny/humiliating xD

  • @joannemartin3952
    @joannemartin3952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    What a beautiful country we had.

    • @andysmom117
      @andysmom117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "had" being the operative word

  • @flipfinish
    @flipfinish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So in 1984 Arizona was able to get us vote counts on election night but not 2020 and 2022?

  • @nathankoroush7918
    @nathankoroush7918 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can hear the disappointed sound in their voices, same as in 2016.

    • @Ryan2022
      @Ryan2022 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep.

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat ปีที่แล้ว

      They were more professional back then. Peter Jennings wouldn't have been shedding tears like Martha Raddatz did in 2016.

  • @WDRowlett
    @WDRowlett 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @buckspa
    @buckspa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @righteousgod8376
    @righteousgod8376 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pretty crazy how popular Reagan was, today he is seen more polarizingly

  • @jcomandante6629
    @jcomandante6629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We will never see this kind of result ever again.

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat ปีที่แล้ว

      From either party

  • @captainhaire
    @captainhaire 8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Not a lot of drama on this night.

    • @CapitalistSpy
      @CapitalistSpy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thompson haire comparing to 2016 😂😂😂

    • @kaedeakamatsu1583
      @kaedeakamatsu1583 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      comparing to 2020 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @captainhaire
      @captainhaire 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @kilroy987
    @kilroy987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @bobbywise2313
      @bobbywise2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @tbewin1z143 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @GGHum-lo2qm
    @GGHum-lo2qm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    See you again in my recomended in 4 years

  • @mr.squidward6947
    @mr.squidward6947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

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

    • @heisenmountainb6854
      @heisenmountainb6854 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ok squidwards

    • @TsdsxSansTSSunStone
      @TsdsxSansTSSunStone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      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
      @blainedriedger9310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @TsdsxSansTSSunStone 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @hb712
      @hb712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @marcparella
    @marcparella 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I bet Jimmy Carter voted for Reagan in 1984.

  • @briantw
    @briantw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @DaveDott
    @DaveDott 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's a red tsunami

    • @DK-zy5fm
      @DK-zy5fm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that is a red apocalypse

  • @seanv7934
    @seanv7934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @alexau9657
    @alexau9657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    NBC: To close to call.

    • @Nameless10949
      @Nameless10949 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Copied comment

    • @alexau9657
      @alexau9657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No?

    • @alexau9657
      @alexau9657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Nameless10949
      @Nameless10949 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @alexau9657
      @alexau9657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This video?

  • @gybx4094
    @gybx4094 8 ปีที่แล้ว +56

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

    • @DealerJack10
      @DealerJack10 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @UteFaithful
      @UteFaithful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @ronnettnorfleet7086
      @ronnettnorfleet7086 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @MoonlightXYZ
      @MoonlightXYZ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Xakslied
      @Xakslied 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fuuuuuuck you all

  • @AdamKlownzinger
    @AdamKlownzinger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @scottyeharris5724
    @scottyeharris5724 8 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    The best president in modern day!!!! We miss you

    • @Alan-lv9rw
      @Alan-lv9rw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dave .... you're ignorant and an ass.

    • @Alan-lv9rw
      @Alan-lv9rw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Enjoy life with an IQ in the 75-80 range.

    • @hgoyam3813
      @hgoyam3813 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jay Join the majority off USA

    • @alwillk
      @alwillk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Too bad he was senile. In the meantime his administration ran amok.

    • @TonyMontana-qv8cx
      @TonyMontana-qv8cx 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      al d. What's your excuse?

  • @w.ryanbutler8097
    @w.ryanbutler8097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

  • @realazduffman
    @realazduffman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @Googoogagamf
    @Googoogagamf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Red illinois? I must be drunk.

  • @dgcmusi
    @dgcmusi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When real journalists had integrity....

    • @travisdial1730
      @travisdial1730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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
      @borgCube100 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fuck off you moronic fuck

  • @seymourfatboy
    @seymourfatboy 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    What a close race.... (lol)

    • @EricEbac22
      @EricEbac22 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @APOCALYPSE_X-MEN 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Jck9102
    @Jck9102 10 ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

    • @guodade2239
      @guodade2239 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @gxbasemedia 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @christhorton6512
      @christhorton6512 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @EricEbac22 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +James Kingsmill Who the hell was Fritz?

    • @billsmith5985
      @billsmith5985 9 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @slshusker
    @slshusker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @alanmei2042
    @alanmei2042 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @firgasz2920
      @firgasz2920 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @oli27268
      @oli27268 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @garysheldonjr8379
      @garysheldonjr8379 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @MoonlightXYZ
      @MoonlightXYZ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @davidhood9712
      @davidhood9712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Ohpeaches87
    @Ohpeaches87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @thecomedypilot5894
      @thecomedypilot5894 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @rajeshwariable
    @rajeshwariable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @Cardah
      @Cardah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Still too close to call....

    • @joshschmitz6211
      @joshschmitz6211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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
      @roryschmidt5776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @damienlockhart6288
      @damienlockhart6288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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
      @wendellnovais 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@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.

  • @vibratingwafflez3551
    @vibratingwafflez3551 10 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    We need another Reagan. Badly.

    • @kiwimapping1010
      @kiwimapping1010 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We have Ron Paul but hes a libertarian Now

    • @23dlc
      @23dlc 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Vibrating Wafflez Ron Paul Rand Paul and now President Trump

    • @DealerJack10
      @DealerJack10 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Vibrating Wafflez
      We have another Reagan, President Trump

    • @abangemirzaihanabangzulkip9502
      @abangemirzaihanabangzulkip9502 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @MoonlightXYZ
      @MoonlightXYZ 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @H7B2ify
    @H7B2ify 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @MaidenUtah1
    @MaidenUtah1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    In your face, George Orwell! 1984 was a kick ass year: Judas Priest released Defenders of The Faith, Iron Maiden released Powerslave, Metallica WAS Metallica, and the Ron-Meister was re-elected by a landslide

    • @ChrisJones-ij3xp
      @ChrisJones-ij3xp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Canada too elected a Conservative government with an enormous majority in 1984. Safe to say it was certainly that kind of year.

    • @coolguy02536
      @coolguy02536 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was merely off by a few decades.

  • @saino2001
    @saino2001 8 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    What an AWESOME night that was!

    • @briane173
      @briane173 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @HamptonRoadsTVFan
    @HamptonRoadsTVFan 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ABC must have called Minnesota early for Mondale. I saw on the videoholic1980s channel a combination of 1984 election coverage footage and the brief NBC snippets (end of part 3) had Minnesota as the last state that was called (guessing around 1:00 a.m. or so?).

  • @finchborat
    @finchborat 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    40 yrs ago today!
    We're never gonna see anything like this ever again.

  • @bobbywise2313
    @bobbywise2313 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I laughed at the title because in 1984 there was no election drama. It was over after the second debate...

  • @idkman76
    @idkman76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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