It was probably on two tapes. Early VCR’s, like the one this was taped on, didn’t have the EP/SLP mode for recording because the technology was still too young. It might’ve also been recorded on something else. Who knows though.
@@retroryan838 Great recall. I forgot about the recording speeds. :) 2, 4 and 6 hour if I remember right. And you had to buy the right VHS tape for the longer recording times.
Having been born in 2001, it’s insane to imagine an incumbent president only winning about 6 states when up for re-election. If Trump only wins six states this November (which I highly doubt as of June), that will be a stunning landslide.
Has anyone else noticed how the media seems to be doing their job and fairly reporting the news without personal bias? Today’s media and news anchors are a sad joke of unprofessionalism.
Yeah, they assigned the colors back then by incumbent and challenger. I wish they still did it that way to be honest. There was no such thing as 'red states' and 'blue states' back then.
I was 9 & loathed Carter. My parents were life long Dems but I was rooting for Ford in '76 when I was 5 & Reagan in 1980. I did like Mondale, cause he was from a state I'd used to live in & my dad met him a few times (he was union leader) & got pictures with him & he was nice guy. I haven't rooted (or voted) for a dem president since then.
I remember watching this too. Anderson got the highest votes of any Independent Presidential candidate until Ross Perot in 1992. It is incredible to realize this was 44yrs ago! U also realize in rewatching this how much technology has advances in Television since then. Indeed there were still many ppl watching B&W TVs...typically not their primary TV. My grandmother was still watching a 19" B&W TV at this time.
Biden won't win. He told black people "You ain't black if you don't vote for me." He literally asked a black journalist "did you take a test for crack?" and he followed it up with "are you a junkie?" His mind is stuck in a time before the 1980 election we see here.
Me too I was 100% certain they wouldn’t be there when they announced the first commercial break. So glad we were able to watch this for what it genuinely is…or was I should probably say.
I didn’t hear any get called a bigot, fascist or n@zi the whole time. I guess the pink-haired they/thems had to scream like morons into a Betamax cam corder back then.
I was only nine years old at the time, yet I could-and can can still-recognize the impartiality and professionalism that once existed in a media landscape that was ostensibly more monopolized, whereas the media landscape today is genuinely monopolized & corporatized.
It was owned by RCA, a corporation which no longer exists. For much of RCA's corporate history, its CEO and Chairman was David Sarnoff, a staunchly pro-American Republican whose family had fled from the Soviet Union.
@@cesarjom none of them are honest anymore. DNC ran a campaign on solely lies and empty words with literal stolen valor on the ticket. We are less as a people, as a society, than what is depicted in this video. The corruption and rot is all encompassing, not limited to journalists or a certain party.
1:01 Reagan wins Florida 1:37 Reagan wins Mississippi 18:16 Reagan wins Alabama 18:40 Reagan wins Virginia 19:07 Carter wins Georgia 30:32 Reagan wins Ohio 41:12 Popular vote update 1:00:20 Reagan wins Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, North Dakota, and South Dakota 1:01:20 Reagan wins Kansas 1:01:29 Reagan wins Missouri 1:01:36 Reagan wins Tennessee 1:01:45 Reagan wins Oklahoma 1:01:52 Reagan wins Texas 1:06:00 Another popular vote update 1:09:43 Carter wins DC 1:12:15 Yet another popular vote update 1:14:20 Reagan wins the election by winning New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, and South Carolina 1:33:30 Another popular vote update 1:47:22 Carter wins West Virginia 1:59:15 Reagan wins Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Arizona 2:00:54 Another popular vote update 2:15:43 Carter wins Rhode Island 2:18:17 Another popular vote update 2:28:58 Reagan wins Kentucky and New Mexico 2:30:08 Another popular vote update 2:51:05 Carter concession speech 3:01:17 Mondale concession speech 3:06:41 Reagan wins Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, and Montana 3:09:01 Carter wins Minnesota 3:34:56 Reagan wins Louisiana 3:41:20 Anderson concession speech 3:49:52 Another popular vote update 3:59:15 Reagan wins California 4:08:32 Reagan wins popular vote 4:11:13 Carter wins Maryland, Reagan wins Washington 4:20:06 Reagan wins New York 4:20:37 Reagan wins Oregon 4:29:19 Reagan victory speech 4:46:33 Bush victory speech 5:40:20 Another popular vote update 5:55:23 Another popular vote update 5:58:57 Another popular vote update States not called on video: Carter wins Hawaii, Reagan wins Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, and Arkansas
Brokaw was biased, he just didn’t display it until his career was at its end. I still remember the nightly crying (from brokaw & rather) that we were headed for a new ice age.
Weeping ?!? Weeping is a stoic man whose intense emotion forces out a single tear he refuses to wipe away as he stands there with a stern look. What I saw after Trump was elected was not weeping. They were screaming at the top of their lungs, Throwing a Hissy fit tantrum like a 5 year old in a supermarket who didn't get the candy bar they wanted. There was one woman they turned into a Meme screaming over and over with each breath. It was full on retard night in America.
Except how they covered the Carter administration. “DAY 75 OF THE HOSTAGE CRISIS, BOY I SURE DO HOPE THE PRESIDENT ISNT A FAILURE WHO FAILS TO BRING HOME AMERICANS, DID I MENTION WHAT A FAILUE HE IS”
Usually I think of 1980 as the beginning of everyday use of high tech stuff, not the year that a lot of people still had and used b/w TVs (including our home when I was 10 yrs old that year).
They said the 76 election wasn't called until 330 am. This was only early cause it was a blowout. But I do understand your point about computers only complicating things.
There are 100 million more people in this country now, and turnout last time was 12% higher than 1980. Of course it took longer. Also, states having their own laws means different mail ballot deadlines apply in close elections.
I remember this election as a very young Republican. I was so excited to see state after state going for Ronald Reagan and that the country would hopefully be moving in the right direction for the first time in years. My mom, also conservative, tempered my excitement by saying that she felt bad for Jimmy Carter losing so badly. It reminded me to be compassionate toward others even if I bitterly disagree as we are all human. Reflecting on this video also reminds me that there was a time when Republicans and Democrats worked together and compromised to get things done.
The big reason media's changed is that it's much more profit-driven than it used to be. Providing news used to be seen by the networks as a professional service separate from their money-making goals. The president of CBS in the 1960s once said "I don't care if I lose money on Walter Cronkite. I'll make it back from the Beverly Hillbillies". Today, that mindset is gone, and they're trying to entertain viewers for the sake of ratings. That's especially true of Fox (which constantly brags about beating CNN and MSNBC in prime-time) but the same basic attitude has infiltrated all television news except PBS.
Blast from the Past. I was 10 years old when this happened. Seven years later I was standing between my parents at the Brandenburger Tor waving an American flag as President Reagan told Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down This Wall’. A couple of years after that we were celebrating as they hammered pieces of history out of that wall. It was quite a decade to live through.
Browns Fan I heard about him giving amnesty to a million illegals, and it's very unfortunate. I keep hearing about how great that Reagan was, and he did do good things. But that amnesty plan was a total leftist move.
The only reason Reagan did it was the Democrats promised to secure the border. Well, that never happened, obviously. He later admitted that he regretted the amnesty decision.
The reason why they do not bring up history today is that they do not want people to realize how the media is destroying the culture of America. For example what party did the KKK belong to.
@@bighands69 the conservative party of the time. the democrats. around the time of FDR, there was a political realignment. face it, conservatives have always worn the face of racism. you claim that media is poisoning people’s brains with propaganda (it is) but yet you spit out that very propaganda.
@@bigsirenguy You think the FDR democrat party was conservative. Tell me how as the FDR party that introduced the largest set of welfare programs in American history be considered conservative? Next you will be claiming LBJ and Carter were conservatives.
@@bighands69 No I said around the time of FDR the democrat(s), not democrat party, re-aligned. The Republicans became the conservatives and the Democrat(s) became the left. You still had southern democrat(s) who were conservative though, and that’s why JFK chose LBJ as his VP. In the year 2020 both the democrat(s) and republican(s) are right wing parties, with a very small minority fraction of democrat(s) on the left.
I absolutely love how you didn't cut the commercials. It allows us to relive the event as it happened, the tedious nature of this broadcast, as we await updates, and have to sit through the same commercials again and again! Not to mention it gives us a little glimpse of the culture.
Those cars...sad time for American auto design thanks to totally being caught with our pants down after '73 Arab Oil Embargo. It took 20 yrs before we made good rice burners and another 15 before we got back to American muscle ('08 Challenger). Now all being ruined on a giant hoax.
They would switch each election until 2000. During the recount controversy, the terms "red states" and "blue states" got ingrained in the news, and they've stayed that way ever since.
No only did they switch on elections but between networks. You could switch between ABC, NBC, CBS and see different color schemes but always red/blue. I think that the commentators tipped us off as to why they did this. Not necessarily to label the parties but to have enough contrast to show clearly on black & white TVs.
This was my first election too! I love how the one political commentator said that Carter was squeezed by history… no personal attacks, no blame games.
Seems like yesterday...my relatives were Reagan democrats...they claim the democrat party left them & feared we'd lose the country if Carter remained in office. The Reagan years were beautiful & America became respected again.
It reminds me of a well known slip up by a snooker commentator some 40 years ago here in the UK, 'For those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green'.
That was when NBC had the promotionals "NBC Proud as a Peacock" and NBC in Living Color" showing a peacock with feathers of every color of the rainbow.
It's great looking back at the commercials. I remember being a kid and having a phone call with a friend through the TV. It was weird. Felt like the whole house could hear your conversation.
@@GermanShepherd1983 What are you talking about? When Trump became President, the media and the left showed it's true colors. The left likes to twist everything and then blame on conservatives/white people. For example, when a police unjustifiably kills an innocent black man, the media instead of saying "corrupt cop kills innocent man" they twist it as "white cop kills black man" which creates this mindset to it's viewers and the left that cops target black people when in reality, statistics show white people get killed by the police much more than black people. This shows selective bias especially when those incidents where white people die by police barely get attention, thus, division occur between police, and many people left-leaning. The gender wage gap is also something non-existing that the left pushes out constantly. There are different numbers, but let's go with women averaging 80 cents per 1 dollar for men. That's actually accurate but extremely broad. If one breaks down this into factors that ACTUALLY matter, such as the "same number of hours worked in 1 week for the SAME profession and position within that profession" then the gender wage gap is absolutely non-existent. The left doesn't want to accept those facts, and if they push for the goal that women wage gap suffrage needs to be fixed, yet doesn't want to accept that such issue is already fixed (not to mention it's illegal to pay anyone less based on factors such as race, gender, religion, and more) then that shows that the left is pushing out for women wage gap superiority. Another example the left keeps pushing for which creates obvious division is Asian hate. Yes, Asian gets hated on by a lot. However the media likes to report Asian hate when WHITE people do it. There are dozens of videos online of Asians getting assaulted by people of color, but the left media barely brings light into it. The moment a white person does it however, the left all of a sudden cares so much about Asians, even doing a #StopAsianHate. This is obvious selective bias by the media to share light on a particular story but not another one with similar magnitude with only small modifications (in this particular case, it's skin color they're going for, just like the police brutality issue). I'm not saying that sharing light on these issues is a bad thing, but it should be more of "either all is okay, or none if it is" instead of selecting specific stories because of irrational factors. Also, in liberal cities, schools teaches kids as young as 8-9 year olds this nonsense, mainly starting with police brutality. They're already manipulating the upcoming generation with their agendas, which is why cities everywhere in red and blue states keep getting bluer and bluer. Conclusion is, the left does more division than the right with constantly pushing out stories and narratives that fit their agenda, and leaving out a more fair approach to these situations. So no, it's not Trump that's dividing us, it's the media constantly calling Trump things like "racist" "sexist" and more because they love taking his words out of context to eat him and conservatives alive.
@@GermanShepherd1983 And before you call me white, I'd let you know I'm a Hispanic currently living in Liberal New York City, so I know what the hell I'm talking about, especially with education in the city being made to manipulate children from the start.
@@GermanShepherd1983 the past 4-5 Administrations have been a series of sh** shows. Trump definitely didn’t help, but he wasn’t the cause of it. American regression has been happening since the end of the Cold War in the ‘90s.
And the American hostages were all released by Iran on January 20, 1981, just minutes after Reagan took the oath of office... so that Carter couldn't claim that victory.
The Trump win was the biggest shocker since the 1980 election. I still think 1980 was a bigger shocker, not because Reagan won, but because it was such a huge landslide when the polls showed Carter with a slight edge shortly before the election.
Plus, I was surprised how Tom Brokaw openly welcomed the prospect of a Reagan victory right on the news. So much for the myth of the liberal media. Although, I do remember David Brinkley tending to favor Democrats, and introducing a segment the following campaign with, "Now, here is our next President, Walter Mondale." (He wished.)
Lawrence Horner, myth of liberal media? So because there were commentators 36 years ago that showed approval of Reagan means no bias today? This kind of thinking does not compute. Over 90% of those in todays media vote democrat.
Oh well, that is America in a nutshell. As a non-American I see it's rare to find a truly decent and honest senator. Bernie should have really won the presidency....
The fact that you can't see the computers that are clearly in the background of almost every shot is very telling, also, you're nïeve or weren't alive if you think there were not cell phones in 1980
I remember the night he won, sitting in Arcadian Gardens parking lot in South Park PA. As a "democrat", I thought his win was the end of the world. Pleasantly surprised, I became a Reagan Republican by the 2nd term.
This was the last presidential election where I was too young to vote. My class was in the gym when the head coach came in and made an announcement that the president had been shot. I went on to serve in the military under President Reagan from 1983-1987. I miss those days when life seemed easier. When Reagon was reelected, I was teased about Mondale winning only my home state of Minnesota. I told them that I voted for Reagan.
@@zacharyfelder6604 they meant the senate elections. Interestingly, most southern states didn't locally turn republican, untill even 2010, with many senate seats in Arkansas, and Louisiana still having been represented by Democrats
It’s because the Republicans especially back then were still perceived as a rich persons party that did not resonate well in southern states that were blue collar. Reagan barely won those southern states even when he was the more conservative candidate because his economic policies were just not populist at all. But since you can’t be a social conservative since the party has gone full woke the only choice is the Republicans
@@jacksonsmith4935 Not entirely. Here in AR, the Dems were dominant on the state level until the 2010s. When that decade started, the Dems had the Governor's seat, Lt. Governor's seat, Attorney General's seat, 3 of the 4 House seats, both Senate seats, and both houses of the state legislature (by large margins). In 2010, 2 of the House seats (one of them for the first time since Reconstruction), the Lt. Governor's seat, and one of the Senate seats flipped and the gap in both state Houses shrunk. In 2012, the last blue district flipped and the State House and State Senate flipped for the first time since Reconstruction. In 2014, the Governor and Attorney General's seats and the other Senate seat were flipped (first time since Reconstruction both Senate seats were Republican).
When news was news and not 24 hours of suggestive, repetitive, force fed, narratives pushing political and social ideologies of the owner's of the stations
CNN actually hit the airwaves in 1980! Mom's transcriuption service used to do the MoneyLine show on CNN and I'd deliver it on my skates into the CNN offices in the basement of the WTC, right to Lou Dobbs himself.
Yeah, that's when the FCC had a rule called The Fairness Doctrine. Reagan and the GOP abolished it. You're literally watching the beginning of the end lol.
@@thedemonhater7748 Disagree 94% of Comcast executives’ and vice presidents’ contributions to Democratic presidential candidates have gone to Joe Biden, a Sludge review of FEC records finds.
I remember asking a Latina lady I knew "Did you vote for Reagan?" She chuckled and said "Oh no, if I was going to vote for an actor, I'd pick Ricardo Montalban"
Thank you for posting this wonderful video unedited just like it was originally broadcast and in it's entirety. I greatly appreciate it. If you have other similar election videos, I hope you will share those also. Thanks again.
You are kidding, right? People eat far more - more calories than ever. And it's SUGAR that is making people fat. People don't cook their own meals at home anymore from scratch. They buy frozen packaged meals loaded with sugar and they eat at restaurants.
Back then, in the news business, yes. At least at the top levels. You had correspondents coming up, but it would be a while until you had top level anchors who were minority, though top flight reporters would come first (Naturally, as top reporters got into positions where they were in line to jump to the anchor chair.) The Civil Rights Act of 1968 had been 12 years prior.
I remember watching this in 1980 with my parents. I was 16, and they were big Carter supporters, so of course I was too. It's so wonderful to see these old journalists who valued their reputation for fairness more than their own personal politics. On the one hand I love seeing John Chancellor, a young Tom Brokaw, and others, but on the other hand it makes me sad that we've fallen so far since then. The old advertisements are awesome. Who remembers Juan Valdez? He picked no bean before its time.
@@notajedimaster2489 anyone was going to win in 84, unfortunately. I for one dont like cowards who keep out citizens hostage like reagan did, but thats just me. and the only reason he was relected is because they felt sorry for him after his asassination atempt.
NICE! I believe we were watching this is on color tv in the front room and a black and white in the family room. Very cool for someone to have kept this and shared it.
I find this so interesting . I voted for President for the first time in 1980 . I was raised a Democrat , and had just become a "born again" Christian so I voted for Carter . I was so disappointed that Carter lost . By 1984 , I was living in southern California and watched Reagan on the TV , and listened to him myself . I was surprised at how brilliant , common sense he was . I not only became a Republican , but got involved in the Reagan Campaign for 1984 .
Reagan also started out as a democrat before turning right. It is wise people, both candidates and voters, who value the political realities of the day more than long time party allegiances .
@@jimreilly917 I think you're right.. what I meant to say was they hid it much better and they weren't as outwardly crazy because they understood would not agree with them
I was a sophomore in college, and 1980 was the first presidential election in which I voted. Unlike my fellow students -- all of whom were predictably liberal democrats -- I was a very strong supporter of Ronald Reagan, mainly because of the long lines for high-priced gas in my home state, California, the Iran hostage crisis, and the looming threat of the Soviet Union. After I graduated from college, I entered USN Officer Candidate School and ultimately served 30 years commissioned service, and President Reagan was THE finest Commander-in-Chief under which I served.
I guarantee every one of these anchors had a personal opinion about what they were reporting on. And most, if not all, were not happy about these results. But can you tell what their personal view was? No. It's called professionalism.
I feel like I have to be greatful for how they present the news where I come from (Switzerland). I feel like the moderators are shown way too long and are treated like stars in the US. Why do they have to split the screen (2 or 4) when they interview one or more people? Just show the person talking. The worst: BREAKING NEWS text and these titles. It covers half of the screen. That's so annoying and it looks very cheap. For more infos we have teletext. If you want to know what it looks like in Switzerland watch this (you don't have to understand just see how they present it): th-cam.com/video/1x6HXuUWYyo/w-d-xo.html or this th-cam.com/video/6vhOR7FDQq0/w-d-xo.html
Didn't have all these liberal crybabys we have these days. Liberals are only tolerant if you agree with them otherwise they have no tolerance. Liberals are not Americans because they don't believe in our basic freedoms.
***** I've heard a lot of reporting about violence from Trump supporters but not a single video to back that up. Mainly from CNN and MSNBC who are notorious for their liberal bias. On the other hand I have seen tons of violence from anti-Trump supporters, liberals!
***** Also, it's important to realize, being from a foreign country, that Trump supporters are made of many, many non-conservatives, in fact many conservatives opposed Trump for the very reason he didn't didn't really hold to conservative principles. The allegations about incivility came from the Trump supporters, NOT conservatives. Conservatives have a very strong belief in law and order and being uncivil is opposite of that.
***** Very good question and I'll try to be objective. The term liberal has been around many years and the meaning has changed over the years. In 70's and 80's it meant someone open to new ideas. A liberal politician was considered open to change where as conservatives wanted to keep status quo. Now the meaning of liberal is more subjective as many see liberals as socialists. The term conservative has also changed over the years and now conservatives, like me, hold to traditional values, like marriage and financial responsibility. Conservatives hold to law and order and having strong military. I'm a conservative and how I think. Conservatives are not racists but want all people to work for themselves and not a burden on everyone else, so we don't like entitlements (welfare).
Fascinating how the representative colors were not always fixed Dem Blue, GOP Red. It's also worth noting how strikingly honest the reporters were back then. The polling was real, correct and accurate. The reporters did not inject their opinion into it. They accepted what the story was and did not seek to change or control a narrative. Nobody melted down in tears.
It was so obvious early on. The south flipped early and Carter being a southerner had no chance after that. Remember, "everyone knew" Reagan would sweep the west coast back then!! This one was the first election that really solidified the south as a conservative bastion for decades to come. After '64 Goldwater loss, Nixon got two big wins, but then the foolish Ford nomination put things back in doubt until double hammer shots by Reagan and weak sister GHW Bush rode in on his coattails for one term...before Perot / Dole mismanaged fiascos.
One big biased moment toward the end was when Chancellor boldly stated that Carter "won the debate on points." Ridiculous. Carter looked and sounded weak. He'd looked and sounded that way for yrs and we were sick of his hesitant, weak, lecturing about how we'd had our best days. The only way to believe Carter won on the text would have to believe in Carter's failed policies that he spent the whole debate defending.
We also didn’t have assholes who claimed they won when they lost(causing a riot and the most embarrassing day in US history), the loser graciously accepted defeat
@@joshbates5710 it always has voted conservative, the Democrats in the south were conservative, then they switched to the Republican party because it agreed more with their views
1980 was the first election I was old enough to participate in. Watching this brings back memories, especially all the ads. From the perspective of 2023 life looks like it was a lot simpler then that it is now, but we didn't think so back then.
Well Reagan was governor... a PRO CHOICE governor, B movie actor. TRICKLED DOWN ALL OVER this country, wrecked the middle class, ignored his dying friend ROCK HUDSON'S AIDS diagnosis, started the crack epidemic to kill the black communities, GREAT GUY! AND NOW HE AND LIL JUST SAY NO NANCY are ROTTING on in the CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN SIDE... and each fire season those FLAMES GET CLOSER... and soon HE AND NANCE WILL BE BURNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@gmgz I know, we are just too polarized today. I think maybe someone will come along that will garner that much support in the future. I just want us to get out of this cycle where every election goes down to the wire and they are winning by less than 1%.
😢Now we have to wait days, weeks so dems will have time to collect their various questionable ballots that they will need to win. They have them ready to go, just need to know how many to get. How many they need to win.And then, sure enough, they win.Thats the new system.
I was 17 years old, watching this broadcast on NBC that night, and was grinning from ear to ear. Still makes me smile to this day thinking about it. America got a new lease on life in 1980. Glad I got to experience that moment of hope.
@Raine Cowles Reagan stood up to the communists, created a massive job boom, the likes which was not seen this side of WW II, lowered taxes, and created a patriotic spark in America that had been missing since the Vietnam War.
I was 18 then and glad Reagan won but, I didn't tell my family and neighbors. I didn't vote and kinda too late for me to register to vote. But in 1984 I voted for Reagan.
I was all of 14 years old when this aired but I remember it like it was yesterday. I never liked Carter as President. I thought he was weak and made things difficult for Americans while he was President and was so excited when Ronald Reagan was elected and got to actually vote for him as an 18 year old in 1984. Who remembers the Iranian hostage crisis, the gas lines, everything going through the roof price wise, etc etc etc.? Stuff got better it seems once Reagan got in office. It wasn't overnight but things eventually improved.
I wish we had this type of professionalism in our current era.
No kidding.
They cheat wake up
The country is in a constant state of degeneration.
All men.
Those were the golden days. I don’t think it’s coming back.
Someone had a vcr in 1980 and recorded for over 6 hours. Then got it digitized and put it on youtube. Thats amazing.
It was probably on two tapes. Early VCR’s, like the one this was taped on, didn’t have the EP/SLP mode for recording because the technology was still too young. It might’ve also been recorded on something else. Who knows though.
@@retroryan838 Great recall. I forgot about the recording speeds. :) 2, 4 and 6 hour if I remember right. And you had to buy the right VHS tape for the longer recording times.
Except for the TH-cam still existing part.
How is that “amazing”?
That is actually incredible
I forget how many people still didn't have color TVs by this time.
True.
Having been born in 2001, it’s insane to imagine an incumbent president only winning about 6 states when up for re-election. If Trump only wins six states this November (which I highly doubt as of June), that will be a stunning landslide.
Just wanted to let you know I'm a big fan
Mr. Beat just casually in the comments lmao. Big fan of your videos, keep up the good work
i love you mr beat
When journalists were far less biased. Look at how far we have digressed.
and when Republicans were not bat shit crazy
@@juliosanchez95 Fake.
@@juliosanchez95pregnant men. You lose
@@juliosanchez95 you're right, they shouldn't have let today's platform shift so far to the left
@@juliosanchez95Dude, Republicans were way farther right in 1980 than they are today, and so were Democrats.
Has anyone else noticed how the media seems to be doing their job and fairly reporting the news without personal bias? Today’s media and news anchors are a sad joke of unprofessionalism.
Interesting opinion piece, but I disagree.
@@skankhunt3624 That's because you're a commie.
@Omar Omar Always with a bit of humour, Omar...always with a bit of humour.
Skankhunt36 that’s your prerogative to disagree, just as I am free to disagree with you disagreeing with me.
@@skankhunt3624 fuk you then leave this country to cuba then smh
Man, I hope Reagan can pull this off!
LOL... Good one!! Me too!!
No jimmy carter will definitly win
Whose is this reagan giy? We just elected george washington
Good ole Ronnie! He needs to be on Mount Rushmore.
Why did they change Republican to red and when
it's weird not only to see the colours flipped, but also to see them explain the colours for people watching in black and white, lol
At first I thought they had made a mistakenat that point, but nope.
And they called Florida of all places first.
I thought gamers did not care about elections.
Yeah, they assigned the colors back then by incumbent and challenger. I wish they still did it that way to be honest. There was no such thing as 'red states' and 'blue states' back then.
@@user-nw5te4mo1q well sorry to say this but gamers can be citizens and should care about the governing of their country.
Indeed
Holy crap, I remember this like it was yesterday and it was 44 years ago. I was 15 at the time. Mom and dad were so right, time passes way too fast 🥲😪
I was 10.. swear it was like yesterday. Honestly it’s too bad many people alive today didn’t experience the 80s. Probably my favorite decade…
@@TNT46DOG I agree.
I was 9 & loathed Carter. My parents were life long Dems but I was rooting for Ford in '76 when I was 5 & Reagan in 1980. I did like Mondale, cause he was from a state I'd used to live in & my dad met him a few times (he was union leader) & got pictures with him & he was nice guy. I haven't rooted (or voted) for a dem president since then.
Time freaking flies amigo. Hard to believe it.
I remember watching this too. Anderson got the highest votes of any Independent Presidential candidate until Ross Perot in 1992. It is incredible to realize this was 44yrs ago! U also realize in rewatching this how much technology has advances in Television since then. Indeed there were still many ppl watching B&W TVs...typically not their primary TV. My grandmother was still watching a 19" B&W TV at this time.
Who's watching to remember what normal elections used to be like?
I’m here for normal election media coverage!
normal election bro he had a historic victory
JumboSqueeze who do you think wins this years election?
now it’s more like a fight for the country
Biden won't win. He told black people "You ain't black if you don't vote for me." He literally asked a black journalist "did you take a test for crack?" and he followed it up with "are you a junkie?" His mind is stuck in a time before the 1980 election we see here.
I’m glad they didn’t edit out the commercials. Those are a piece of history as well!
Me too I was 100% certain they wouldn’t be there when they announced the first commercial break. So glad we were able to watch this for what it genuinely is…or was I should probably say.
I saw the Boeing add with Pete Conrad - a NASA moon hero.
Me too, but I still don't want a ford granada.
They cheated wake up
Synthetic fuel and fracking
I was 7 but I remember watching with my parents. Who would have thought Jimmy Carter would still be alive 44 years later
The absolute contrast in network political coverage from then to now......is amazing.
They were professionals back then! And experts in their field.
I didn’t hear any get called a bigot, fascist or n@zi the whole time. I guess the pink-haired they/thems had to scream like morons into a Betamax cam corder back then.
I was only nine years old at the time, yet I could-and can can still-recognize the impartiality and professionalism that once existed in a media landscape that was ostensibly more monopolized, whereas the media landscape today is genuinely monopolized & corporatized.
"Tom, go on. I didn't mean to interrupt you"
Words never said on national news, post 2015
that was the first thing I noticed as well!
lol right? I was like "Wow....that was really nice of him."
What happened to those discussions?
post cable news
You can often hear it on Fox News.
Just came back for this. Wow. Amazing, isn’t it? Civil discussion, just reporting the news, the facts, as they were coming in.
Wow!! Who knew NBC was once an honest news organization.
No kidding.😁
It was owned by RCA, a corporation which no longer exists. For much of RCA's corporate history, its CEO and Chairman was David Sarnoff, a staunchly pro-American Republican whose family had fled from the Soviet Union.
And so was the Republican presidential candidate back then unlike today.
@@cesarjom keep doing exactly what you're doing, instead of learning anything 😂
@@cesarjom none of them are honest anymore. DNC ran a campaign on solely lies and empty words with literal stolen valor on the ticket. We are less as a people, as a society, than what is depicted in this video. The corruption and rot is all encompassing, not limited to journalists or a certain party.
Great to set what unbiased news looks like. CNN and NBC could learn a lot from these old videos.
Who is watching this after last Tuesday's Trump victory???
I Am
This was my 2nd election. I voted for Gerald Ford in '76 against the peanut farmer.
I am! Judy woodruff distraught 🤣🤣🤣
Me!
1:01 Reagan wins Florida
1:37 Reagan wins Mississippi
18:16 Reagan wins Alabama
18:40 Reagan wins Virginia
19:07 Carter wins Georgia
30:32 Reagan wins Ohio
41:12 Popular vote update
1:00:20 Reagan wins Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, North Dakota, and South Dakota
1:01:20 Reagan wins Kansas
1:01:29 Reagan wins Missouri
1:01:36 Reagan wins Tennessee
1:01:45 Reagan wins Oklahoma
1:01:52 Reagan wins Texas
1:06:00 Another popular vote update
1:09:43 Carter wins DC
1:12:15 Yet another popular vote update
1:14:20 Reagan wins the election by winning New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, and South Carolina
1:33:30 Another popular vote update
1:47:22 Carter wins West Virginia
1:59:15 Reagan wins Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Arizona
2:00:54 Another popular vote update
2:15:43 Carter wins Rhode Island
2:18:17 Another popular vote update
2:28:58 Reagan wins Kentucky and New Mexico
2:30:08 Another popular vote update
2:51:05 Carter concession speech
3:01:17 Mondale concession speech
3:06:41 Reagan wins Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, and Montana
3:09:01 Carter wins Minnesota
3:34:56 Reagan wins Louisiana
3:41:20 Anderson concession speech
3:49:52 Another popular vote update
3:59:15 Reagan wins California
4:08:32 Reagan wins popular vote
4:11:13 Carter wins Maryland, Reagan wins Washington
4:20:06 Reagan wins New York
4:20:37 Reagan wins Oregon
4:29:19 Reagan victory speech
4:46:33 Bush victory speech
5:40:20 Another popular vote update
5:55:23 Another popular vote update
5:58:57 Another popular vote update
States not called on video: Carter wins Hawaii, Reagan wins Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, and Arkansas
That's only 47 +1 (D.C.)
forgot reagan massachusetts
Where was the spoiler space?😅
😂
Awesome outline!! Worth 10,000 ups!
I love how unbiased news was back then. Can we go back to that.
Brokaw was biased, he just didn’t display it until his career was at its end. I still remember the nightly crying (from brokaw & rather) that we were headed for a new ice age.
The media turned on Reagan fast after he took office. The baby boomers were now adults and getting into positions of influence in media by then.
So much more integrity then. No slander. No weeping. No gnashing of teeth. Just honest analysis.
Weeping ?!? Weeping is a stoic man whose intense emotion forces out a single tear he refuses to wipe away as he stands there with a stern look. What I saw after Trump was elected was not weeping. They were screaming at the top of their lungs, Throwing a Hissy fit tantrum like a 5 year old in a supermarket who didn't get the candy bar they wanted. There was one woman they turned into a Meme screaming over and over with each breath. It was full on retard night in America.
I saw a little from Brinkley and Chancellor
@Repomeister nice
That's because Reagan hadn't yet created Fake News with the elimination of the Fairness Act.
Except how they covered the Carter administration. “DAY 75 OF THE HOSTAGE CRISIS, BOY I SURE DO HOPE THE PRESIDENT ISNT A FAILURE WHO FAILS TO BRING HOME AMERICANS, DID I MENTION WHAT A FAILUE HE IS”
Who’s still watching in 1981?
Nah I’m watching in 1977.
@@leftenentcrittendon3134 silly, it's only 1980 still
Watching in 1991
Only ten minutes in:
- Anchors saying south usually goes democrat
- Mention of measles
- Mention of black and white tvs
It must be 1980 or something.
StupidTrainStudios ten
Colar TVs where expensive at the time
@@robertspencer703 Spealing.
Usually I think of 1980 as the beginning of everyday use of high tech stuff, not the year that a lot of people still had and used b/w TVs (including our home when I was 10 yrs old that year).
Omar Omar The entire south went for Carter in ‘76 and it went for kennedy in ‘60 it stopped going to the dems after LBJ signed the civil rights act.
I guess I'm not the only one who finds 40 year old broadcasts that last six and a half hours covering an election entertaining.
Alex FRD quarantine has made all of us insane
Yeah and the race for president was over at 8:15. 4 years later they called it even crazier.
I find this entertaining as well Alex.
your never alone
I find this fascinating, and Iived thru it.
The fact that Florida was called first blows my mind.
Florida man
Gets them out of the way easier!
17 electoral votes....what the?
Before the state got ruined by the Yankee invasion
Long before hanging chads.
I wish television news was still like this. I remember it well.
This is how it SHOULD be.
I think Reagan might just be able to pull this off.
No spoilers !!!
It's not over until it's over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
I'm watching until the end to make sure
nope! he'll never do it! I'm waiting for Reagan's concession speech.
Reagan is a threat to democracy
Imagine having your election results the same day, and without computers. The country fell a long time ago.
So true! I remember watching this like it was only yesterday.
They had computers but you definitely couldn’t hold it in your hand.
@@Greeley.d we still got the count before bed. Computers now do teraflops per second, but it takes 3 extra weeks to count for some reason
They said the 76 election wasn't called until 330 am. This was only early cause it was a blowout. But I do understand your point about computers only complicating things.
There are 100 million more people in this country now, and turnout last time was 12% higher than 1980. Of course it took longer. Also, states having their own laws means different mail ballot deadlines apply in close elections.
I remember this election as a very young Republican. I was so excited to see state after state going for Ronald Reagan and that the country would hopefully be moving in the right direction for the first time in years. My mom, also conservative, tempered my excitement by saying that she felt bad for Jimmy Carter losing so badly. It reminded me to be compassionate toward others even if I bitterly disagree as we are all human. Reflecting on this video also reminds me that there was a time when Republicans and Democrats worked together and compromised to get things done.
then Reagan began the decline of the US
Please don’t write to me again.
@@charlesevans6918 You spelled Obama wrong.
Kaylynn Hammond u so smart , only you think so
@@RejectedRecords1998 Reagan and all of the presidents after him turned this country to a cesspool.
Remembering when NBC had a soul...
Wow! Look at how professional the media was.....a far cry from modern day CNN.
Yeah, I know, none of them shed a single tear!
At least Fox News has women, unlike the rest where half of the women look like men.
Rocky Madcow comes to mind
The big reason media's changed is that it's much more profit-driven than it used to be. Providing news used to be seen by the networks as a professional service separate from their money-making goals. The president of CBS in the 1960s once said "I don't care if I lose money on Walter Cronkite. I'll make it back from the Beverly Hillbillies". Today, that mindset is gone, and they're trying to entertain viewers for the sake of ratings. That's especially true of Fox (which constantly brags about beating CNN and MSNBC in prime-time) but the same basic attitude has infiltrated all television news except PBS.
You mean Fox
So THIS is what news looks like. Thanks 1980!
Back when news was almost "real"😮
Can we tell who the news casters voted for? Nope.
@@danr1920 That's the way it should be.
"Tom, go on, I did not mean to interrupt you." kek, no one talks like this on television anymore.
They say “let me interrupt you,”. I have heard it on the 2000 election results for example when they were pulling back Florida.
No one talks like this at all anymore.
when the media wasn't the propaganda arm of the democrat party
"Blue, if you have a color television set"
How quaint.
A gentle reminder, like NBC's peacock logo, that people should get a color set. NBC was owned by RCA, a leading manufacturer of color TVs at the time.
Yeah, the quaint generation that put men on the moon...
@Jeff Butterkl you should be thanking Mexicans for inventing color tvs
@@Anonymous-wy5dc John Logie Baird wasn't Mexican.
@@ScriptedLinks but Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena was
REAGAN won so big that even the audio was only played on the RIGHT .
well played Sir
Ooffffff
ahahha
That’s that high quality mono audio
And then in 1984, Reagan demolished Walter Mondale taking every state in the union except Mondale's home base, Minnesota!
Take me back to 1980. I will even agree to a black and white tv.
Gladly. No cell phones or social media either.
9:33 My Dad had a 1974 Chevy Nova, I think I'll try to convince him to buy a "front wheel drive" Plymouth.
Makes no difference in how much you can enjoy a show, I remember that much.
Yuck, everyone was a racist and sexist back then. Just hoping Kamala dominates in Novemba!
@@evgkib1 Right. Color TV didn't even come out until Clinton.
Blast from the Past.
I was 10 years old when this happened.
Seven years later I was standing between my parents at the Brandenburger Tor waving an American flag as President Reagan told Gorbachev to ‘Tear Down This Wall’.
A couple of years after that we were celebrating as they hammered pieces of history out of that wall.
It was quite a decade to live through.
So weird watching all those Dem states like NY, CA, NJ and CT going Republican. Reagan was the man!
Atlas King CA leaned more Republican back then.
What happened to change CA so drastically? Was it all the illegal immigration?
+D. P. Robertz Yup. Reagan legalized a whole bunch of illegals at the end of his term, and it has gone Democrat ever since.
Browns Fan I heard about him giving amnesty to a million illegals, and it's very unfortunate. I keep hearing about how great that Reagan was, and he did do good things. But that amnesty plan was a total leftist move.
The only reason Reagan did it was the Democrats promised to secure the border. Well, that never happened, obviously. He later admitted that he regretted the amnesty decision.
It's amazing that they're so civil here, but you can tell they're pissed that Reagan one.
Reagan won, not "Reagan one".
No...
Perhaps, but they kept it professional.
When he mentions FDR vs. Landon, that's like talking about Carter vs. Ford today.
The reason why they do not bring up history today is that they do not want people to realize how the media is destroying the culture of America.
For example what party did the KKK belong to.
Yep they were the current talking about history and now they are history themselves. The word 'new' is so silly.
@@bighands69 the conservative party of the time. the democrats. around the time of FDR, there was a political realignment. face it, conservatives have always worn the face of racism.
you claim that media is poisoning people’s brains with propaganda (it is) but yet you spit out that very propaganda.
@@bigsirenguy
You think the FDR democrat party was conservative. Tell me how as the FDR party that introduced the largest set of welfare programs in American history be considered conservative?
Next you will be claiming LBJ and Carter were conservatives.
@@bighands69 No I said around the time of FDR the democrat(s), not democrat party, re-aligned. The Republicans became the conservatives and the Democrat(s) became the left.
You still had southern democrat(s) who were conservative though, and that’s why JFK chose LBJ as his VP.
In the year 2020 both the democrat(s) and republican(s) are right wing parties, with a very small minority fraction of democrat(s) on the left.
These anchors voices alone take me straight back to that night.
I absolutely love how you didn't cut the commercials. It allows us to relive the event as it happened, the tedious nature of this broadcast, as we await updates, and have to sit through the same commercials again and again! Not to mention it gives us a little glimpse of the culture.
Yes i remember that Primatene mist commercial with the cartoon like lungs lol!!
Those cars...sad time for American auto design thanks to totally being caught with our pants down after '73 Arab Oil Embargo.
It took 20 yrs before we made good rice burners and another 15 before we got back to American muscle ('08 Challenger). Now all being ruined on a giant hoax.
@@teller1290 it’s not 2023 I don’t think the auto maker for ruined by Covid. It was not a hoax.
@@markkrull556 I never mentioned COVID. I'm referring to climate scam.
@@markkrull556 did I mention 2023?
This is starting to feel like ancient history. And I was born in the 1970's.
Now it's been 50 years since 1970. Crazy, huh?
@The Wraith LOL 🤣🤣
I'm 28 and anything 90s related makes me feel ancient as hell lmao😂
@@tigervalley62 Just wait. I can remember being a kid and watching the moon landing.
infowars.com
The republicans used to blue?? My mind is blown...
tek87 oh yeah every couple years the parties would switch colors.
tek87 the democrats should be red since they're a bunch of commies.
It was changed because people would snicker that the Democrats were labeled in red.
They would switch each election until 2000. During the recount controversy, the terms "red states" and "blue states" got ingrained in the news, and they've stayed that way ever since.
No only did they switch on elections but between networks. You could switch between ABC, NBC, CBS and see different color schemes but always red/blue. I think that the commentators tipped us off as to why they did this. Not necessarily to label the parties but to have enough contrast to show clearly on black & white TVs.
My first vote was for reagan. And I knew the hostages would come home
This was my first election too! I love how the one political commentator said that Carter was squeezed by history… no personal attacks, no blame games.
Who’s watching for a reminder of what journalism used to look like?
I am, Adrianne.
I am enjoying time traveling back to a better time and political memories. Good times
I was 15 in 1980. This seems so long ago. Cherish your youth kids. Life goes quick.
Yes. It does seem so long ago. I was 15 too.
Seems like yesterday...my relatives were Reagan democrats...they claim the democrat party left them & feared we'd lose the country if Carter remained in office. The Reagan years were beautiful & America became respected again.
@@barneshomestead1240 Reagan was absolutely horrible for America. A cancer to society.
I was 18 and was hoping Reagan would win and he did. I was a closeted republican and didn't let my parents and siblings know. Boy those were the days.
I was 12 and I remember how much people were disappointed in Carter.
“For those of you watching in color” oh my god how times have changed lol
It reminds me of a well known slip up by a snooker commentator some 40 years ago here in the UK, 'For those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green'.
Never mind. . . My parents bought one of those long wired push button channel changers. . . .
That was when NBC had the promotionals "NBC Proud as a Peacock" and NBC in Living Color" showing a peacock with feathers of every color of the rainbow.
My right ear really enjoyed this look back at the 1980 election
😂
Wait, y’mean they were able to know the winner on the same day as the election?!? That’s crazy! 😂
Today, Nevada and Arizona are like: Vote 1… um… vote 2… vote 3… uh… don’t rush me I have to manually read each one
May be not: 4:25:06 .... Next time they should use an Apple McIntosh not a Microsoft DOS !!
before they had computers to count them?
@@gizzyguzzi glitchy and sussy computers at that.
Well, you know, technology was much more advanced back then.
Notice how all the companies advertising actually produced a product people used.
It's great looking back at the commercials. I remember being a kid and having a phone call with a friend through the TV. It was weird. Felt like the whole house could hear your conversation.
1980 when we thought that the future was bright. 2020 would like to go back to 1980.
yes
@@Razer__ Blame trump for destroying what was once a forward looking America. That idiot trump was a disaster.
@@GermanShepherd1983 What are you talking about? When Trump became President, the media and the left showed it's true colors. The left likes to twist everything and then blame on conservatives/white people. For example, when a police unjustifiably kills an innocent black man, the media instead of saying "corrupt cop kills innocent man" they twist it as "white cop kills black man" which creates this mindset to it's viewers and the left that cops target black people when in reality, statistics show white people get killed by the police much more than black people. This shows selective bias especially when those incidents where white people die by police barely get attention, thus, division occur between police, and many people left-leaning. The gender wage gap is also something non-existing that the left pushes out constantly. There are different numbers, but let's go with women averaging 80 cents per 1 dollar for men. That's actually accurate but extremely broad. If one breaks down this into factors that ACTUALLY matter, such as the "same number of hours worked in 1 week for the SAME profession and position within that profession" then the gender wage gap is absolutely non-existent. The left doesn't want to accept those facts, and if they push for the goal that women wage gap suffrage needs to be fixed, yet doesn't want to accept that such issue is already fixed (not to mention it's illegal to pay anyone less based on factors such as race, gender, religion, and more) then that shows that the left is pushing out for women wage gap superiority. Another example the left keeps pushing for which creates obvious division is Asian hate. Yes, Asian gets hated on by a lot. However the media likes to report Asian hate when WHITE people do it. There are dozens of videos online of Asians getting assaulted by people of color, but the left media barely brings light into it. The moment a white person does it however, the left all of a sudden cares so much about Asians, even doing a #StopAsianHate. This is obvious selective bias by the media to share light on a particular story but not another one with similar magnitude with only small modifications (in this particular case, it's skin color they're going for, just like the police brutality issue). I'm not saying that sharing light on these issues is a bad thing, but it should be more of "either all is okay, or none if it is" instead of selecting specific stories because of irrational factors. Also, in liberal cities, schools teaches kids as young as 8-9 year olds this nonsense, mainly starting with police brutality. They're already manipulating the upcoming generation with their agendas, which is why cities everywhere in red and blue states keep getting bluer and bluer. Conclusion is, the left does more division than the right with constantly pushing out stories and narratives that fit their agenda, and leaving out a more fair approach to these situations. So no, it's not Trump that's dividing us, it's the media constantly calling Trump things like "racist" "sexist" and more because they love taking his words out of context to eat him and conservatives alive.
@@GermanShepherd1983 And before you call me white, I'd let you know I'm a Hispanic currently living in Liberal New York City, so I know what the hell I'm talking about, especially with education in the city being made to manipulate children from the start.
@@GermanShepherd1983 the past 4-5 Administrations have been a series of sh** shows. Trump definitely didn’t help, but he wasn’t the cause of it. American regression has been happening since the end of the Cold War in the ‘90s.
I was 14 watching this live, Everyone hated Carter, no one thought anyone could be worse. .... Biden said hold my beer.
Carter has more than redeemed himself in his post presidency if you ask me. A good decent man. Here’s hoping he makes it to his 100th birthday!
And the American hostages were all released by Iran on January 20, 1981, just minutes after Reagan took the oath of office... so that Carter couldn't claim that victory.
Thank you. Mr. Carter did move up in rank when Biden came up from the basement.😮
@@misterakt A very nice man who did wonderful things for Habitat for Humanity, but a lousy POTUS.
40% of the nation voted for Carter... "everyone" didn't hate him.
The Trump win was the biggest shocker since the 1980 election. I still think 1980 was a bigger shocker, not because Reagan won, but because it was such a huge landslide when the polls showed Carter with a slight edge shortly before the election.
yeah, but Chancellor said right off the bat that Reagan was heading for a landslide in 1980. Last presidential election I did not vote in
Plus, I was surprised how Tom Brokaw openly welcomed the prospect of a Reagan victory right on the news. So much for the myth of the liberal media. Although, I do remember David Brinkley tending to favor Democrats, and introducing a segment the following campaign with, "Now, here is our next President, Walter Mondale." (He wished.)
Trump win wasnt shocker at all it was propaganda by main stream media that made people think trump was going to lose
Lawrence Horner, myth of liberal media? So because there were commentators 36 years ago that showed approval of Reagan means no bias today? This kind of thinking does not compute. Over 90% of those in todays media vote democrat.
While there might indeed be a majority of media bigwigs who vote Democrat, over 90% seems excessive. Where are you getting that statistic?
Patrick Leahy is still a senator today. 40 YEARS LATER. We need term limits asap!
Hmmmm.... Maybe a term limit, but these guys have experience now, and they are less likely to be corrupted becacuse they have money now.
To be fair he's good
Oh well, that is America in a nutshell. As a non-American I see it's rare to find a truly decent and honest senator. Bernie should have really won the presidency....
@@Adyman182
As a foreignor, you're a Communist 😂
All foreigners are communists? Damn, Americans are getting pretty wild....
No computers or cell phones. Excellent coverage. The good old days.
And only 3 Networks. Man! Have times changed.
The fact that you can't see the computers that are clearly in the background of almost every shot is very telling, also, you're nïeve or weren't alive if you think there were not cell phones in 1980
@@lukewatson8848 They weren't commonplace.
@@lukewatson8848 1980 not-commonplace though.
@@lukewatson8848 cell phones weren't even common in 2000, tf is wrong with you?
I remember the night he won, sitting in Arcadian Gardens parking lot in South Park PA. As a "democrat", I thought his win was the end of the world. Pleasantly surprised, I became a Reagan Republican by the 2nd term.
This was the last presidential election where I was too young to vote. My class was in the gym when the head coach came in and made an announcement that the president had been shot. I went on to serve in the military under President Reagan from 1983-1987. I miss those days when life seemed easier. When Reagon was reelected, I was teased about Mondale winning only my home state of Minnesota. I told them that I voted for Reagan.
It was close.
@@johndavis8669yep. Mondale barely won MN.
and Mondale only won by less than 4,000 votes out of ~ 2,000,000
It shut them up didn't it? Reagan came very close to sweeping all 50 States in 1984.
@@jt7250yet they could still call it before polls on West closed
By the time I got almost 30 minutes in, at the Jordache and Mary Tyler Moore commercials, I'd completely forgotten about the internet.
GunClinger I do love me some Mary Tyler Moore...
I'm more of a Mary Hartman guy LOL.
Remarkable that Carter is still around 42 years after leaving office.
Yeah, he should have ran for a 2nd term in 2020. Maybe it wouldn't be this bad now.
@@alkohalak8199 He would get my vote!
Exactly. He literally has beaten the odds. God bless him
@@alkohalak8199 He was terrible as a POTUS. Nice guy, but not good at politics.
Carter turns 100 in 2 weeks!
So strange to see reporters just reporting. Just relaying information as they receive it. No bias and partisan diatribes and crying 😂
"That's it. It's over. We now live in a world where our daughters will never know the taste of Billy Beer."
I like that the commercials are included
Even the commercials back then are way better and more entertaining than most of today’s pop culture tv/online programming of today!
The Zenith TV with a built in phone blew my mind
It's easily my favorite part of these videos. I remember the jingles well.
They also didn't have 3 minute+ commercial breaks.
Not one single commercial telling you to ask your doctor if Zenamorphaprofazylex is right for you.
@@DMS-pq8 , I was amazed as well.
Isn't it fun listening to some of these old commercials?
Yep
Especially when your old enough to remember them
1:04:47 Alabama senate. "If Alabama elects a Republican it will be the first time since reconstruction". Man times were so different in 1980.
I mean Alabama voted for a Republican Goldwater in the 1964 election
@@zacharyfelder6604 they meant the senate elections. Interestingly, most southern states didn't locally turn republican, untill even 2010, with many senate seats in Arkansas, and Louisiana still having been represented by Democrats
Zachary the cringe-guy there’s more elections than just presidential elections. The south was still dominated by local democrats till the 90s
It’s because the Republicans especially back then were still perceived as a rich persons party that did not resonate well in southern states that were blue collar. Reagan barely won those southern states even when he was the more conservative candidate because his economic policies were just not populist at all. But since you can’t be a social conservative since the party has gone full woke the only choice is the Republicans
@@jacksonsmith4935 Not entirely. Here in AR, the Dems were dominant on the state level until the 2010s. When that decade started, the Dems had the Governor's seat, Lt. Governor's seat, Attorney General's seat, 3 of the 4 House seats, both Senate seats, and both houses of the state legislature (by large margins).
In 2010, 2 of the House seats (one of them for the first time since Reconstruction), the Lt. Governor's seat, and one of the Senate seats flipped and the gap in both state Houses shrunk.
In 2012, the last blue district flipped and the State House and State Senate flipped for the first time since Reconstruction.
In 2014, the Governor and Attorney General's seats and the other Senate seat were flipped (first time since Reconstruction both Senate seats were Republican).
Anyone else here watching after we elected Trump to a second term? Let’s drain this swamp!
Yep! I am and grateful Trump is back
When news was news and not 24 hours of suggestive, repetitive, force fed, narratives pushing political and social ideologies of the owner's of the stations
CNN actually hit the airwaves in 1980! Mom's transcriuption service used to do the MoneyLine show on CNN and I'd deliver it on my skates into the CNN offices in the basement of the WTC, right to Lou Dobbs himself.
Well not necessarily the owners of the stations. MSNBC criticizes trump, but Comcast donated 170k to his campaign.
Yeah, that's when the FCC had a rule called The Fairness Doctrine. Reagan and the GOP abolished it. You're literally watching the beginning of the end lol.
@@thedemonhater7748 Disagree 94% of Comcast executives’ and vice presidents’ contributions to Democratic presidential candidates have gone to Joe Biden, a Sludge review of FEC records finds.
I remember asking a Latina lady I knew "Did you vote for Reagan?" She chuckled and said "Oh no, if I was going to vote for an actor, I'd pick Ricardo Montalban"
lmao
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I was 15 years old. It's calming, unlike today.
Thank you for posting this wonderful video unedited just like it was originally broadcast and in it's entirety. I greatly appreciate it. If you have other similar election videos, I hope you will share those also. Thanks again.
Thanks for your nice feedback Dalton! Unfortunately, I just have the 1980 election
memoryretro
That's ok-it was the best one anyway!
Did you see what I see? People back then were so slim. Not skinny nor were they fat, just natural.
i know, chemicals and preservatives in the food make people fat, while eating far less, very sad
You are kidding, right? People eat far more - more calories than ever. And it's SUGAR that is making people fat. People don't cook their own meals at home anymore from scratch. They buy frozen packaged meals loaded with sugar and they eat at restaurants.
+RonixEnclave Go back to your hole, vermin.
u got a problem with that son?
Back then, in the news business, yes. At least at the top levels. You had correspondents coming up, but it would be a while until you had top level anchors who were minority, though top flight reporters would come first (Naturally, as top reporters got into positions where they were in line to jump to the anchor chair.) The Civil Rights Act of 1968 had been 12 years prior.
Oh for the days without Facebook!
Jonathon Edwards there’s no FB in my world and I love it that way.
or even MySpace!
@@dan4466 Same here!
and everyones white or irish
my parents were all in for Jimmy Carter... never forgot that cloud of despair in the living room as this was on the television
I remember watching this in 1980 with my parents. I was 16, and they were big Carter supporters, so of course I was too. It's so wonderful to see these old journalists who valued their reputation for fairness more than their own personal politics. On the one hand I love seeing John Chancellor, a young Tom Brokaw, and others, but on the other hand it makes me sad that we've fallen so far since then. The old advertisements are awesome. Who remembers Juan Valdez? He picked no bean before its time.
On the other hand Jimmy Carter was a piece of crap as a President.
@@paulwhite7924 fuck that. Can I let you in on a little secret? outside of hardcore CONservatives, reagan isnt considered that great.
@@guitarplayer8918 right, that’s why he won in a landslide in 84.
@@notajedimaster2489 anyone was going to win in 84, unfortunately. I for one dont like cowards who keep out citizens hostage like reagan did, but thats just me. and the only reason he was relected is because they felt sorry for him after his asassination atempt.
I remember Jessica Savitch - RIP.
This footage is sensational! Such a brilliant level of everything, computer graphic, modern studio, clear talking ,news coverage... And this is 1980!
2:46:00 No crying, no screaming at the sky, no rioting, and no unhinged tantrums. The differences in society between then and now are incredible.
I miss the 80s and I wasn’t even alive yet lol
Very true
America was a decent, civilized society back then. Look at what we got know, a country in decline and unrecognizable from even 10 years ago.
This was culturally more like the late 70s than it was the 80s. The Reagan years changed a lot of things. Some good. Some not so good.
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The Reagan years were a golden age. He was not only a great President, but the culture was in a very good place as well.
NICE! I believe we were watching this is on color tv in the front room and a black and white in the family room. Very cool for someone to have kept this and shared it.
I find this so interesting . I voted for President for the first time in 1980 . I was raised a Democrat , and had just become a "born again" Christian so I voted for Carter . I was so disappointed that Carter lost . By 1984 , I was living in southern California and watched Reagan on the TV , and listened to him myself . I was surprised at how brilliant , common sense he was . I not only became a Republican , but got involved in the Reagan Campaign for 1984 .
It was my first time voting. I was a Ronald Reagan supporter.
This was exactly me :).
You're a special kind of fool if you think that Jimmy Carter is a saved born again Christian.
Good for you. I was too young to vote
Reagan also started out as a democrat before turning right. It is wise people, both candidates and voters, who value the political realities of the day more than long time party allegiances .
Isn't it great to see a news team that isn't slanted.
Isn't it nice not to see divisiveness and wokeness shoved in your face here?
@@dankelly5150 Hell Yes 👍
Oh they were slanted, trust me. Americans just weren’t as susceptible to BS so they were subtle about it.
@@jimreilly917 I think you're right.. what I meant to say was they hid it much better and they weren't as outwardly crazy because they understood would not agree with them
They were slanted all right, just not deceptive yet.
I really miss this kind of reporting. Reporters didn't tell us how to vote or tell us we were ignorant if we didn't think like they did.
I was a sophomore in college, and 1980 was the first presidential election in which I voted. Unlike my fellow students -- all of whom were predictably liberal democrats -- I was a very strong supporter of Ronald Reagan, mainly because of the long lines for high-priced gas in my home state, California, the Iran hostage crisis, and the looming threat of the Soviet Union. After I graduated from college, I entered USN Officer Candidate School and ultimately served 30 years commissioned service, and President Reagan was THE finest Commander-in-Chief under which I served.
I guarantee every one of these anchors had a personal opinion about what they were reporting on. And most, if not all, were not happy about these results. But can you tell what their personal view was? No. It's called professionalism.
I feel like I have to be greatful for how they present the news where I come from (Switzerland). I feel like the moderators are shown way too long and are treated like stars in the US. Why do they have to split the screen (2 or 4) when they interview one or more people? Just show the person talking. The worst: BREAKING NEWS text and these titles. It covers half of the screen. That's so annoying and it looks very cheap. For more infos we have teletext. If you want to know what it looks like in Switzerland watch this (you don't have to understand just see how they present it): th-cam.com/video/1x6HXuUWYyo/w-d-xo.html or this th-cam.com/video/6vhOR7FDQq0/w-d-xo.html
Yes they had class and dignity.
Nobody liked Carter. The left hated Carter because Carter was a Christian and he was very conservative
Wow, EXACTLY two weeks before I was born. It's weird to see an election that's actually civil.
Didn't have all these liberal crybabys we have these days. Liberals are only tolerant if you agree with them otherwise they have no tolerance. Liberals are not Americans because they don't believe in our basic freedoms.
The '80s were the best, if you don't count the Moon landings.
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I've heard a lot of reporting about violence from Trump supporters but not a single video to back that up. Mainly from CNN and MSNBC who are notorious for their liberal bias. On the other hand I have seen tons of violence from anti-Trump supporters, liberals!
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Also, it's important to realize, being from a foreign country, that Trump supporters are made of many, many non-conservatives, in fact many conservatives opposed Trump for the very reason he didn't didn't really hold to conservative principles. The allegations about incivility came from the Trump supporters, NOT conservatives. Conservatives have a very strong belief in law and order and being uncivil is opposite of that.
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Very good question and I'll try to be objective. The term liberal has been around many years and the meaning has changed over the years. In 70's and 80's it meant someone open to new ideas. A liberal politician was considered open to change where as conservatives wanted to keep status quo. Now the meaning of liberal is more subjective as many see liberals as socialists. The term conservative has also changed over the years and now conservatives, like me, hold to traditional values, like marriage and financial responsibility. Conservatives hold to law and order and having strong military. I'm a conservative and how I think. Conservatives are not racists but want all people to work for themselves and not a burden on everyone else, so we don't like entitlements (welfare).
Fascinating how the representative colors were not always fixed Dem Blue, GOP Red. It's also worth noting how strikingly honest the reporters were back then. The polling was real, correct and accurate. The reporters did not inject their opinion into it. They accepted what the story was and did not seek to change or control a narrative. Nobody melted down in tears.
What? The polling was way off in 1980. It (in)famously showed a “close race that never happened”.
@@dingers5daysI think he meant “manipulated “.
It was so obvious early on. The south flipped early and Carter being a southerner had no chance after that. Remember, "everyone knew" Reagan would sweep the west coast back then!!
This one was the first election that really solidified the south as a conservative bastion for decades to come. After '64 Goldwater loss, Nixon got two big wins, but then the foolish Ford nomination put things back in doubt until double hammer shots by Reagan and weak sister GHW Bush rode in on his coattails for one term...before Perot / Dole mismanaged fiascos.
One big biased moment toward the end was when Chancellor boldly stated that Carter "won the debate on points." Ridiculous. Carter looked and sounded weak. He'd looked and sounded that way for yrs and we were sick of his hesitant, weak, lecturing about how we'd had our best days. The only way to believe Carter won on the text would have to believe in Carter's failed policies that he spent the whole debate defending.
We also didn’t have assholes who claimed they won when they lost(causing a riot and the most embarrassing day in US history), the loser graciously accepted defeat
Very interesting. I was a college student then. We were happy to hear about the election outcome. ( RIP Jessica Savitch)
Hard to believe that the commercial interruptions that once annoyed me now bring back fond memories. Life is strange that way I guess...
That's what nostalgia does to you. That, and literally everything was better back then, including commercials for that matter too!
Back when the country had real Americans.
And great to see well-known Crack-head Mayor Marion Barry! Before the roof fell in on him.
and a real media
And no traitors like Trump!
@@seanmolloy9297TDS? I’m sure that you were sucking on Obama’s sack. Yes you can
yep, true. i was there and cast my first vote that year. its been downhill ever since for this nation. i first noticed the rot in the 80s.
Phew, that was a close one
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LoL!
Had me biting my nails
Good thing he won Montana. Those votes made all the difference.
I was still in my mom's stomach
I remember this, but it was so hard to understand trying to hear it while I was in my mommas belly 😂
I love watching these vintages presidential elections. Such a nostalgic beauty! But I must say that the commercials are my favorite part of it all!
Dreadful, actually. Those cars.
I like hearing the “Buzz” by the rabbit ears.
"The south isn't always going to vote Democratic." That's for damned sure!
Now it's all conservative!
@@joshbates5710 it always has voted conservative, the Democrats in the south were conservative, then they switched to the Republican party because it agreed more with their views
@@joshbates5710 Immigration has caused Virginia to go blue and North Carolina is 50/50
@@DMS-pq8 North Carolina was 50/50 between the 2012 and 2016 election. It's still very conservative here, but Mitt Romney just sorta sucked.
@@Tinfoil_Hardhat From what I've heard the Hispanic population has really grown the last 20yrs are so which is tipping the balance True?
We need media like this again, MAKE MEDIA GREAT AGAIN
MMGA. I agree.
I wish but it is too far gone.
Today we have a 24/7 365 (366 in a leap year) where news outlets are trying to out scoop each other with no regards to accuracy.
The good'ol 80's. Hearing those busy typewriters in the background makes it sound more professional. Lol
1980 was the first election I was old enough to participate in. Watching this brings back memories, especially all the ads. From the perspective of 2023 life looks like it was a lot simpler then that it is now, but we didn't think so back then.
Back when California had its shit together
Well Reagan was governor... a PRO CHOICE governor, B movie actor. TRICKLED DOWN ALL OVER this country, wrecked the middle class, ignored his dying friend ROCK HUDSON'S AIDS diagnosis, started the crack epidemic to kill the black communities, GREAT GUY! AND NOW HE AND LIL JUST SAY NO NANCY are ROTTING on in the CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN SIDE... and each fire season those FLAMES GET CLOSER... and soon HE AND NANCE WILL BE BURNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!
California was paradise in 1980. I was very fortunate to grow up in that era.
Being born in 2003 its cool watching these old election coverages
When the original 1980 commercials first came on, I looked over to the right lower corner for the "skip ad" icon. LOL
Real reporters. Forgot what they actually looked like. Those were the days.
and then there is chris
@Rafael Garcia According to Tara Reade, so was Biden.
Can ya'll imagine a presidential election being called at 8:15 PM? This seems like ancient days, I wish we could get those days back.
I can't imagine a swing state being called at 8:15 pm
@@gmgz Me either, No one could get enough support to win an election in a landslide today. 😀
@@cindypruitt9534 Even in 2008, when the Democrats had every advantage known to man, Obama didn't win until 11 pm
@@gmgz I know, we are just too polarized today. I think maybe someone will come along that will garner that much support in the future. I just want us to get out of this cycle where every election goes down to the wire and they are winning by less than 1%.
😢Now we have to wait days, weeks so dems will have time to collect their various questionable ballots that they will need to win. They have them ready to go, just need to know how many to get. How many they need to win.And then, sure enough, they win.Thats the new system.
I was 17 years old, watching this broadcast on NBC that night, and was grinning from ear to ear. Still makes me smile to this day thinking about it. America got a new lease on life in 1980. Glad I got to experience that moment of hope.
Four more years of a failed Carter administration and America would have been devastated.
I too was 17. My folks and I were so happy that Carter lost.
1980 was a couple of years before my time, but between the election of Reagan and the 1980 US Hockey Team, it was a year of hope like no other!
@Raine Cowles Reagan stood up to the communists, created a massive job boom, the likes which was not seen this side of WW II, lowered taxes, and created a patriotic spark in America that had been missing since the Vietnam War.
I was 18 then and glad Reagan won but, I didn't tell my family and neighbors. I didn't vote and kinda too late for me to register to vote. But in 1984 I voted for Reagan.
I was all of 14 years old when this aired but I remember it like it was yesterday. I never liked Carter as President. I thought he was weak and made things difficult for Americans while he was President and was so excited when Ronald Reagan was elected and got to actually vote for him as an 18 year old in 1984. Who remembers the Iranian hostage crisis, the gas lines, everything going through the roof price wise, etc etc etc.? Stuff got better it seems once Reagan got in office. It wasn't overnight but things eventually improved.