...Reagan only lost Minnesota by about 4000 votes...Ron always heard, he would have win Minnesota too, had he pushed a recount...but he saw no need to further humiliate Mondale in his own home state...
@@anarchorepublican5954 Minnesota was irrelevant because Reagan Won the Most Populated State in the Union: California. With CA won by Reagan, his Re-Election was completely fully secured.
@@Tornado1994 ...I remember that night ..Reagan's re-Election was secured ...long before Minnesota...or California..in fact it was called nearly 2 hours before the polls closed in California...angering down ballot Democrats..TV hasn't done that early of a call since...
Notice how much classier and professional the press was in those days. Peter Jennings, with no hint of bias in his voice, simply reporting the facts while respectfully referring to each candidate as “Mr”.
Although he was 100% for Mondale, he was professional enough, at least back then, to conceal it well. By the time Clinton was president, it was becoming more and more obvious where his politics were. I remember watching him after one Clinton State of the Union address when I turned to my wife and said, "wow, Clinton sounds like Ronald Reagan." And then Jeff Greenfield, doing analysis on ABC said exactly what I had just said! And Peter Jennings haughtily replied, "well, Jeff, I think he sounds like....BILL...CLINTON" in the most smug way imaginable, like "That's my boy." That's when I realized how in the tank he was for the Slickster.
But this is how life was in general back then. We had respect for our neighbors, no matter their politics, and we respected the rule of law. No one was above the law. We really believed that back then. You could respect the president even if he was of the opposite party and you disagreed with him. Nixon had to resign, not because Democrats were coming after him, but because his own party told him that Watergate was a bridge too far.
Probably has a bit to do with the rise of 24 hour news channels. Back in '84, network news was king. They didn't spend all this time discussing what the news meant and how you should think. Everyone was allowed to make up their own mind.
Dude was a chad. He was probably one of the most genuinely electable people ever. It’s strange to think people thought he was an a extremist warmongerer in 1980. I’d say that shows the downright stupidy of Americans from time to time
Are you aware of what Reagan’s beliefs and policies were? He was pro gun law-reform, he was anti nuclear weapon, he was ANTI requiring social security, he was anti-tax increase on income, he was pro tax increase on corporations, and lastly he was pro UNIVERSAL healthcare. Now I ask you this, if he were running today, which party would he align with? Furthermore, if he were running today with these same beliefs, would you vote for him? I can say this, he would win NY, easily.
@@joshuacoldwater He was anti government. He was not anti nuclear weapon, was continuing to stockpile nukes until he got the agreement with the Soviet Union. He also spent trillions on black budget projects and Star Wars. He was also a globalist that continued getting U.S involved in other conflicts, which was nothing more then power projection. His economic policies were not great they were tailored towards the top end and business not the average working class. He was average at best if you look back, short boom then bust. Lot of little wars going on during his time. No he would not win NY CA, MASS or the traditional leftist states. None of the R Gov that won Ca would ever win it today. CA has gone so far left along with NY that I doubt we ever see a R win either ever again.
I dont get why Minnesota is so assbackward , must be the weather there make people stupid that they will continue to believe the party that want to make life difficult.
@@bigverybadtom I mean surprise is one thing, but just the feeling of seeing your results being absolutely OBLITERATED like nothing before, all for the world to note and witness live.
I started my documentary on Election '84 with a press conference Mondale had the morning after the election. He was very pragmatic about it: th-cam.com/video/CzWEMX2RIV0/w-d-xo.html
Yeah basically embarrassing yourself in front of the entire nation and the world. Although there’s nothing embarrassing about making it to the final vote
Reagan could have won Minnesota if he campaigned more there, but since he already knew that Mondale was gonna be humiliated since the other 49 states were literally gonna go to him, he let Mondale have the chance to win his home state. Tho after all, you can pretty much say that the election was decided after the second debate. All Reagan had to prove was that he still had the physical and mental capability at 73 years old to be the commander in chief. The joke he cracked, plus Mondale's reaction, says it all. Walter actually did really well in the first debate, which led people to question Reagan's physical state as a candidate. A 50 state sweep would have been narly tho. At least Walter could have taken pride in having DC vote Democrat literally every time 😂
Interesting you mention that, because the Republican color was blue on some TV stations up until the 2000 election. You can see this around the 10-minute mark of this video. But ABC was using red for Republicans even in 1984. The rest of the media changed blue to mean Democrats as of the 2000 election, so today's younger generations only know Democrats as the blue party.
Well he did later serve as US Ambassador to Japan during the Clinton years and was an elder statesman of the Democrats Party due to his long public service career and maintaining his dignity in crushing defeat. Responding with grace after a bitter lose rather that be a 49 state blowout or a 500 vote lose in Florida used to be a respected public example of good character vs spending the next 4 years taking a flamethrower to our government institutions
@@augustopinochet42069 I was a democrat back in the 70s, 80s, 90s and the 00s. It wasn't until 2014 I switched by party. I did vote for Reagan and at the time I was living in the very liberal state of Tennessee. Weird to say that now haha.
@@stephenbates8111 do you think the southern strategy had an impact with southerners voting for liberal economics in the 20th century, then switching to conservative economics as a result of the republican party becoming socially and economically conservative?
@@stephenbates8111 - I live in TN as well. It's so weird going through each election and seeing TN go from red to blue to red again. We went with the winner of every election from 1964 to 2004.
@@alexfilma16 Exactly. Without the electoral college, Reagan's Victory would not seem so impressive, and Hayes 1876, Bush '00, and Trump '16 would not have won.
@@JeffBujak no. They don’t. Plenty of MSM still sticks to the facts. AP is a great example. PBS. ABC and CBS news are very Americanized news centers, but they’re “centrist” in the way of not challenging right wing extremist and pretending there are extreme leftists in the US But still, they stick to facts. Get with reality bud
@@Adriaantje2008 even if you just consider the popular vote, it was something like 58-41 Reagan, no president I can think of has had that wide of a margin.
one thing ive noticed is that this news station is straight forward and to the point in this video, the man here shows no bias and speaks in a consistent voice. i'd love to watch a news station like this this is really nice.
Honestly, CNN when it's doing projections sounds pretty normal, they go "X person won this state and here is their path to victory", etc. It's only when they cover it that you get the bias like "unfortunately it looks like X is happening"
Man... I can't even imagine how incredibly liberating it must have felt to be able to travel from coast to coast and feel the confidence that every single place you landed shared the same moral and political compass as you. That is something we'll likely never see ever again.
Legend has it that Reagan won every province in Canada also that night. Along with Mexico, Zimbabwe, Bermuda and the United Kingdom. Even the planet of mars voted for him.
May I remind you that any thought of 'winning' the United Kingdom would have been firmly rebuffed by a certain Mrs Thatcher. It is fortunate indeed that they had a good relationship and mutual understanding.
If you're under the age of about 20 or so, this is what politics used to looked like. People were actually harmonious and put common sense before idealism. Parties existed for democratic balance, not citizen tribes.
And the only reason Mondale even won that was because Reagan decided not to campaign in MN out of respect. If Reagan really wanted to he would’ve won that too.
@@mike197714Were these the Good Old days or What? If I Could go Back in a Time Machine and Be Put Back in the 80's I'd Stay there!! Anyone else ever Feel this Way?
As a fan of the team who won it, thanks for bringing that memory in the comment section. As a republican, it’s just satisfying to remember we won an election by this much
Man I can't even imagine how amazing that Superbowl must have been for Seahawks fans where let's be honest that game was over after that first snap by the Broncos Halftime up 22 points second half starts with an 87 yard kick off return 😂 end up being up 36 Points by the time the Broncos scored their first and only td in garbage time let's be honest but man that must be cool games only half over and yet the result is clear just chilling waiting for the game to end and your team officially declared world champions
I just turned old enough to vote in 1984 and Mr. Reagan was the first President i ever voted for in New York State. As a youngster i didn't realize how historic this election would be. Many years later in 2024 i voted for Trump for the third time in another historic election. Life is crazy sometimes. God bless America 🇺🇸
I remember 1984 election and when the networks called Minnesota for Mondale fairly late in the evening, my dad says "isn't that nice that he finally won a state and it's his home state."
Compare the professionalism of these three (Jennings, Brinkley and Brokaw) to the meltdowns that their successors would have 32 years later on election night 2016. I don't know what these three men believed politically, but that was the point.
No bias? Just look at what they choose to use for each candidates photo. The difference was back then they pretend on air not to be biased since it would be tolerated as the media was, at the time, supposed to be above that.
Ironically the fairness doctrine was revoked under Reagan which is why they are so biased today, and he even vetoed it when congress tried to bring it back in 1989.
@@dandeluxe8731 Don Lemon cried in 2020 even though he claimed his side won. No one on the right cried. Trump came out and yelled, Tucker and Hannity were angry, but no one cried like Maddow.
@@andreag-punkt9319 Man was too popular that in the election New Hampshire, Connecticut and Maine were more Republican Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee percentage wise. Good ol' times before it all went to shit.
It also really exemplifies the issue with our electoral college. Reagan actually only had 60% of the popular vote. If you go by electoral college numbers however, which most people will, you'd think he was somewhere closer to 90% of the popular vote. This probably warps people's views about Reagan and the political landscape he lived in.
Mr.Reagan cleaned house. I remember this election night like yesterday. Btw I love the way they showed election results back then, very simple and straight to the point.
I loved watching Peter Jennings back in the '80s. Really liked seeing John Stossel show up for special reports too, and, thankfully, Stossel is still around.
fewer votes to count and wider margin of victory allows for early 'proections' the same projections some people bitch about as being undemocratic because 'not all the votes' have been counted. lol.
It would be nice if we could go back to a time when people voted based on the candidate and not just blindly vote for the person with a D or R next to their name.
@@bigpapi6688I don't think it would be possible. This country is soooooooo divided by political party lines. I think you could put Ted Bundy up there and a majority of the right would vote for him over Biden, and you could put Jeffery epstien up there and the majority of the left would vote for him over Trump. Most voters literally vote for the R or D.
My dad told me that he was waiting in line to vote in Minneapolis near the time polls were closing. People were shouting out their windows that Reagan won before he even got to cast a ballot.
Reagan did not even campaign there yet lost by a few thousand. If he wanted it he could have done the 50 state sweep by going to the suburbs of Minneapolis. Kinda wish someone achieved the feat
Washington, DC has voted Democratic since 1964 after the 23rd Amendment was approved. Similarly, the state of Utah has voted Republican in every election since 1968.
@@JimHeathChannel so what I’m hearing is pick one representative from Washington DC and one representative from Utah to fight to the death, winner gets our country
@@josephr.bidenjr9908 key word: more I said it’s good that America has been voting more along their party lines when it comes to federal offices. Such as voting for president and senate.
@@Raspberries9372 But why? I'm an environmentalist and I believe in tax sponsored healthcare. But I also believe in gun rights and I am a christian. There isn't really any place in either big party for me.
@@serronserron1320 it’s good thing because it makes republican and democrat party unite on their own sides to fight in battle ground states and districts. It makes them go out their way to gain voters to fight, gain and conquer. Look at Reagans Presidency. He won by landslide but the house congress was majority democrat. Weighing down a lot of what he wanted. Same can be said about Richard Nixon, bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
I loved '84. So many cool things happening. Hair metal was kicking off. Solar eclipse. I was discovering girls. Reagan was our POTUS. Marino dominated. Chocolate milk was still an option for school lunch.
At least he was honest though, even if that totally killed off whatever miniscule chance he ever had at winning! That of which was also a big reason as to why he might as well be the first major party candidate to select a woman as his running mate, knowing there wasn't a snowball's chance in Hell that Reagan was going to possibly lose this election, while having virtually no ammunition to throw at his opponent for that matter either. Yet you gotta admit it was fairly impressive that four out of ten voters actually preferred Mondale over Reagan. Not bad for someone who just BARELY won a mere single state if you ask me too! L.O.L.!
@@freakyfornash Right, reagan on the other hand didnt tell us about his plan for Iran Contra which very well could have been going on during this election. And yes, people look at the electoral map and call this a blowout but Mondale did actually win 4/10 voters which if the electoral vote mimicked that, reagan would have won 323 EV's. Still a solid win but nowhere near the blowout people try to say this was.
I remember this. It was pretty amazing. My parents liked Mondale but voted Reagan as so many others did. They did not like what the Democratic Party was becoming. And just 15 years earlier they were staunch democrats. Most tv stations used blue for republicans and red for democrats. I think only abc did the opposite.
@@3dartistguy the thing to remember this was before cable tv all the tv networks in the country blocked off the date for the election coverage. From the : us election night 1984 nbc live coverage they called it at 1h15m into the broadcast. Also by 9pm they were seeing if Reagan was going to sweep all 50 states.
I can't imagine being in a world where the news is straightforward and just told the news as it is, and people voted whoever without antagonizing each other's candidate or party.
You should read up on Bleeding Kansas then. Democrats then vs. Democrats now. Not a lot has changed. The 1984 election was merely one where the Democrats had little to offer but "tax and spend" against what was essentially a nationwide block party of indulgences.
Anyone alive when Jimmy Carter was in office will understand why Fritz Mondale lost so badly in 84. Nobody wanted to go back to the sky high gas prices and stagflation of the Carter years.
I was born in and still live in Massachusetts to this day. I was born in the '90s, and could never imagine this state voting for a Republican president. Obviously President Reagan is the exception.
@@backtobasic8566 different back then. Democrats weren’t complete victim players constantly and radical! There was no antifa and BLM burning cities down while they buy million dollar houses in white communities. Back when we took care of Florida 1st instead of Ukraine which has never helped us in any way. It has helped Joe and Hunter get rich though. We had secure boarders back then and out America 1st! I miss those times! When only women could get pregnant and we could clearly define what a woman was.
We had a 3.2% unemployment rate, interest rates were down, gas was cheap, no inflation and rising wages. It was a fantastic time in America, following the Jimmy Carter 4 year nightmare.
@josephblankenship591 Beg your pardon, but what about the 2000s and the 2010s decades where George w bush and Barack Obama are presidents? Besides, they both are at least fine presidents to me.
@@JoJoDaTireMan Stop waiting. It's not going to happen. Democrats are no longer democrats. They're communists now and real Americans will never unite with communists.
@@bemhibbits4157 Thanks! To this day I have mixed feelings about Reagan. No president is 100% bad or 100% good. His second term was way more problematic than his first - probably due in part to his age.
@@bigverybadtom Economic prosperity?? In 1986, unemployment was at 7%. Interest rate on a 30 year mortgage was at 9%. A year of slow growth and moderate inflation, and the dollar was weak. WTF are you talking about?? Did you hit your head? the only reason the cold war ended was because the Soviets finally went broke. Reagan had nothing directly to do with it. Anymore than Clinton had anything to do with the booming tech economy. You thank Reagan for ending the Cold war, you better thank Clinton for the internet.
My 1st time voting was 1984 and I remember having a Reagan/Bush bumper sticker on my car. N.J. was a different state then. Great memories and yes America loved President Reagan
@@travisdarko5781 🔴254 Electoral Votes REAGAN to 🔵3 Electoral Votes MONDALE ...that was what was truly embarrassing... 📺⇠😆 even liberal SNL did a hilarious skit..." since Everyone was voting for Reagan...they asked Mondale, why not you Vote for him too, and make it unanimous?"
Too bad. Given that trickle down economics slowly gutted our economy, how does one profiteer 2 separate world wars and still manage to squander that generational wealth in one lifetime?
I'm a lifelong Republican - having voted for the first time for Ronald Reagan in 1980 (I go WAY back!) - but I've gotta say that Geraldine Ferraro was an awesome woman. I didn't agree with all her political views but she was an intelligent, accomplished, classy, and charming person and would have been a great bet for a Democratic candidate in her own right.
And started as a Democrat. Was even a union leader (Screen Actors Guild). And the more he thought about things the more he realized that he wasn't a Democrat after all.
The reason he won this big wasn’t because of political view in fact a good amount of people didn’t agree with him but they trusted him. My parents were in high school during the 80s and they said that even though people disagreed with Reagan they still liked and trusted him. Much different from what we see today with politicians.
Mondale BARELY carried his home state of Minnesota by about 4,000 votes. To put it another way, we came within one vote per precinct of carrying the state for Reagan. We did re-elect Sen. Rudy Boschwitz and took control of the MN house.
Minnesota did go for Nixon in 1972, though :) That race was actually more lopsided than 1984 from a popular vote standpoint. Richard Nixon received over 60 percent of the vote that year, a feat that Reagan was (barely) unable to duplicate.
@@MirzaAhmed89 I can believe that, many cities in the U.S tend to vote Democrat while the parts of the states that they're in that aren't big cities tend to vote Republican. Just look at Washington and Oregon, the big cities like Seattle and Portland vote Democrat (which has caused them major problems) while the rest of their states vote Republican but because they're outnumbered population wise, those states go to whoever the Democrat candidate is in U.S presidential elections.
@@girlgardelook at IL. It’s red everywhere baring Chicago and some suburbs. Or as a better example PA, it’s so red it’s a joke but Philly and the suburbs made jt blue. When you don’t appeal to suburbs you can’t expect rural areas to save you
@@mam162Nixon’s victory was inflated to a large degree by him getting dictator margins in the south and this inflated his popular vote total. Getting 66% in TX and 72% in FL is what am talking about plus 58% in NY . Elsewhere he won but not equally. Reagan in 1984 was the most well rounded victory ever since he performed well everywhere unlike Nixon who underperformed in key Republican constituencies.
I have to say thank you for putting this video up. On my 18th birthday this was my first election to vote in. When I was at the point where I could vote on November 4th which just so happened to be my 18th birthday. I was still a senior and I was the only one that was able to vote. Because of my birthday I had to start school a year later. I was also the first of my class to get my driver's license on my birthday. Again thank you for the memories. David
Back then you wouldn't have someone go pick up the ballot drop box at 7:30pm, return at 3am with tens of thousands of ballots without a single republican vote to add to the tally.
This was my second election to vote in. I was in the Air Force and in MS. Happy and proud to have voted for Reagan. 2024 now and happily cast my vote for Trump.
@@jrc872 Don't, we are doing great, 9 kids 5 grand kids. We all live within 10 miles of each other and see each other all the time. I took them all to the polls Tuesday to vote and they where all happy to vote Trump and GOP. That is 15 total votes from my kids their spouses and my wife and I.
@jamescutler8055 How's it feel voting for a guy who dodged a draft, given himself multiple fake purple hearts, and continuously makes fun of the military?
It wis so intriguing to me to see the Nation as a whole all agree on someone for the most part. I don't think I've lived in a time where it wasnt a razor edge majority.
It is a good thing. Having closer elections means two things - people making laws are careful about whether they have a public mandate for them, and the opposition is not left as merely a symbolic one, they still have influence, so their supporters are not completely alienated. It also is a symptom of there being a larger clash of ideas and visions for the country, which is good for democracy.
@@shotguncreeper i love when a minority of voters get a majority of the electoral college votes, allowing a deeply unpopular party to remain in power. What an awful system of government.
Bruh just crushed it. I was born in 1971. I grew up in the 80s. I loved me some Hair Bands, hated New Wave, and fell in love with Randy Rhoads, The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Terminator, Hot Dog: The Movie, Up the Creek, The Blues Brothers, Strange Brew, Mount St Helens, etc., etc! *What I miss most from the 1980s is PRESIDENT Ronald Wilson Reagan!*
Me too, was my first presidential election. I loved Reagan, I am still working 43 years later and ready to retire, from the company I got a job with at 19 because of his successful presidency. God bless his memory.
@helljumper5613 won't ever happen in our lifetime. The Democratic Party made sure that states such as Califronia won't change for decades. They basically pay minorities and immigrants to vote democrat.
Different country 40 years ago. This was before mass amnesty for illegals and wokeness. For Trump to win over 300 EVs and the popular in 2024 was really as impressive as Reagan's 1984 win.
I love how quickly they went from, “let’s see if Mondale can make some somewhat decent gains” to “can Reagan win all 50 states”
Reagan won California. California pretty much secured his Reelection. It was a Breeze.
Back then the media pretended to be unbiased too. Today they would have a meltdown and lash out at anyone that called them out.
...Reagan only lost Minnesota by about 4000 votes...Ron always heard, he would have win Minnesota too, had he pushed a recount...but he saw no need to further humiliate Mondale in his own home state...
@@anarchorepublican5954 Minnesota was irrelevant because Reagan Won the Most Populated State in the Union: California. With CA won by Reagan, his Re-Election was completely fully secured.
@@Tornado1994 ...I remember that night ..Reagan's re-Election was secured ...long before Minnesota...or California..in fact it was called nearly 2 hours before the polls closed in California...angering down ballot Democrats..TV hasn't done that early of a call since...
Very close election! This one had me on the edge of my seat
Ok CNN
At 6 years old I was laughing 😃
😂
LMAO
@@LeemurOfDeath10 He was obviously joking when he said it but I get it as that's what CNN or MSDNC would say. LOL
Notice how much classier and professional the press was in those days. Peter Jennings, with no hint of bias in his voice, simply reporting the facts while respectfully referring to each candidate as “Mr”.
Although he was 100% for Mondale, he was professional enough, at least back then, to conceal it well. By the time Clinton was president, it was becoming more and more obvious where his politics were. I remember watching him after one Clinton State of the Union address when I turned to my wife and said, "wow, Clinton sounds like Ronald Reagan." And then Jeff Greenfield, doing analysis on ABC said exactly what I had just said! And Peter Jennings haughtily replied, "well, Jeff, I think he sounds like....BILL...CLINTON" in the most smug way imaginable, like "That's my boy." That's when I realized how in the tank he was for the Slickster.
lmao magats are delusional
But this is how life was in general back then. We had respect for our neighbors, no matter their politics, and we respected the rule of law. No one was above the law. We really believed that back then. You could respect the president even if he was of the opposite party and you disagreed with him. Nixon had to resign, not because Democrats were coming after him, but because his own party told him that Watergate was a bridge too far.
His voice is clearly dejected.
@@therealniksongs how do you know he was 100% for mondale?
Notice how the broadcasters back, then did not give their views on everything, but simply reported what was happening
They were real broadcasters , you couldn’t compare the pundit like Peter Jennings, Walter Cronkite, or the Huntley and Brinkley team .
It's brutal how everything is part of the liberal media industrial complex these days. Even Fox News is nothing but controlled opposition.
Probably has a bit to do with the rise of 24 hour news channels. Back in '84, network news was king. They didn't spend all this time discussing what the news meant and how you should think. Everyone was allowed to make up their own mind.
@@karbearmama1973 notice how you like to steal popular comments
Except they didn't when Mondale won Minnesota. They mentioned he hadn't lived there in 20 years for really no reason
7:30 PM - Welcome to our election night coverage
7:31 PM - Reagan won, good night!
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7:30PM - Welcome to our election night coverage
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A Republican winning CA, NY, or MA would be a huge deal today. Reagan won all three.
Dude was a chad. He was probably one of the most genuinely electable people ever. It’s strange to think people thought he was an a extremist warmongerer in 1980. I’d say that shows the downright stupidy of Americans from time to time
Are you aware of what Reagan’s beliefs and policies were? He was pro gun law-reform, he was anti nuclear weapon, he was ANTI requiring social security, he was anti-tax increase on income, he was pro tax increase on corporations, and lastly he was pro UNIVERSAL healthcare. Now I ask you this, if he were running today, which party would he align with? Furthermore, if he were running today with these same beliefs, would you vote for him? I can say this, he would win NY, easily.
@@joshuacoldwater He was anti government. He was not anti nuclear weapon, was continuing to stockpile nukes until he got the agreement with the Soviet Union. He also spent trillions on black budget projects and Star Wars. He was also a globalist that continued getting U.S involved in other conflicts, which was nothing more then power projection. His economic policies were not great they were tailored towards the top end and business not the average working class. He was average at best if you look back, short boom then bust. Lot of little wars going on during his time. No he would not win NY CA, MASS or the traditional leftist states. None of the R Gov that won Ca would ever win it today. CA has gone so far left along with NY that I doubt we ever see a R win either ever again.
@@joshuacoldwater The GOP still, his social policies are very aligned and so are his tax policies too. We wouldn't win NY
Back when Americans had some common sense and haven't been utterly brainwashed into being stupid Leftists
Fun Fact: Reagan came within 3,761 votes from sweeping all 50 states.
True, but it wouldn't be a perfect sweep due to Washington DC
@@슬라바우크라이나헤로 who cares about DC
@@슬라바우크라이나헤로 Washington DC isn't a state. They don't even have congresscritters so how they get electoral votes is a complete mystery.
@@슬라바우크라이나헤로 you are aware that Washington D.C. is not a state right?
@@jeffcarr5174They are not a state, but they still get 3 electoral votes.
If you ever feel useless, just remember Mondale had a campaign manager
oh snap lmao
It was Bob Beckel. Went to work for Fox News until his death in 2022.
Tbh, I'm not sure Reagan needed one
LMAO But he advised him that telling the American people that he would raise their taxes was a brilliant idea! How could that possibly backfire?
Later that year one of Reagan’s aides asked him what he wanted for Christmas.
In true Reagan fashion he replied “Well, Minnesota would have been nice”
amazing
I dont get why Minnesota is so assbackward , must be the weather there make people stupid that they will continue to believe the party that want to make life difficult.
@@thewestisthebest6608 I have seen a mention that but for a few thousand votes, Minnesota could have been Reagan’s as well.
Lol Reagan was a funny guy .. great personality
@@Renville80 3,761
At least Mondale nailed his field goal kick.
LMAO
Laces out
@@danielm8950THE LACES WERE IN!! THEY WERE IN!!
Wow
Think of the points spread
I can't even imagine how Mondale felt not only learning the results, but seeing them unfold at that moment *on live television*
I don't think he was surprised. Everyone was expecting Reagan to win easily.
@@bigverybadtom I mean surprise is one thing, but just the feeling of seeing your results being absolutely OBLITERATED like nothing before, all for the world to note and witness live.
I started my documentary on Election '84 with a press conference Mondale had the morning after the election. He was very pragmatic about it: th-cam.com/video/CzWEMX2RIV0/w-d-xo.html
@@JimHeathChannelwhere is the documentary?
Yeah basically embarrassing yourself in front of the entire nation and the world. Although there’s nothing embarrassing about making it to the final vote
Ah, back when it was election night, rather than election week.
@@BigPete212 now we're back to election night
4 years of Lets Go Brandon and he's finally gone
@@kiasj1794 😁
Election hour
I'm surprised it didn't stretch out this time like I was expecting it to.
Reagan almost had a full 50 state win. He was just 4 thousand votes away in Minnesota from making that happen.
Ya it’s pretty liberal here it kinda sucks
I'm pretty sure Reagan let Mondale have Minnesota.
@@trystansparks3947 he probably did after Mondale was getting destroyed 😂😂.
Reagan could have won Minnesota if he campaigned more there, but since he already knew that Mondale was gonna be humiliated since the other 49 states were literally gonna go to him, he let Mondale have the chance to win his home state.
Tho after all, you can pretty much say that the election was decided after the second debate. All Reagan had to prove was that he still had the physical and mental capability at 73 years old to be the commander in chief. The joke he cracked, plus Mondale's reaction, says it all. Walter actually did really well in the first debate, which led people to question Reagan's physical state as a candidate.
A 50 state sweep would have been narly tho. At least Walter could have taken pride in having DC vote Democrat literally every time 😂
And he took 44 states in 1980. He was 193-7.
"No Democrat has ever won without the state of Texas"..... God, have times changed!
I just said that to my wife!
Dems just have to cheet, then they win! 😢
Trump should’ve mentioned that in his court challenges in 2020.
Back then, Texas was blue, and California was red.
Look at Vermont then and now.
I remember as a teen my grandpa saying there was so much red on the screen he thought the color had went out 😂
Your grandfather was either senile or a liar. Red/blue states didn't exist until the 2000 election.
Interesting you mention that, because the Republican color was blue on some TV stations up until the 2000 election. You can see this around the 10-minute mark of this video. But ABC was using red for Republicans even in 1984.
The rest of the media changed blue to mean Democrats as of the 2000 election, so today's younger generations only know Democrats as the blue party.
My nana probably said something similar, too bad she died thanks Regans awful economic policies
@@TheSMR1969how so?
@@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING suicide after being released from state run facility after Reagan's healthcare cutbacks
I love the professionalism of the journalists at that time, they are respectful and have good oratory skills.
Wasn’t a Jennings fan but I do miss the professionalism.
Same. Today it’s just diatribe and unprofessional.
i actually don't have a problem with today's election coverage.
Its the one thing that CNN still does competently.
@@theprofessor8517and they basically care about they’re own opinion and not the facts 😂
I remember those times vividly. I miss them very much.
Mondale winning Minnesota is like the meaningless touchdown a team finally scores in the last 2 minutes of the game when they are losing 65-3.
Yes but it gave vice president Mondale great satisfaction in winning his home state
Field Goal you mean lol.
@@relicman actually I did mean TD. in ‘84 Minnesota had 10 electoral votes Mondale winning gave him 13 total for the election.
@@UGAmike34 sometimes consolation prizes are ok I guess.
Well he did later serve as US Ambassador to Japan during the Clinton years and was an elder statesman of the Democrats Party
due to his long public service career and maintaining his dignity
in crushing defeat.
Responding with grace after a bitter lose rather that be a 49 state
blowout or a 500 vote lose in Florida used to be a respected
public example of good character
vs spending the next 4 years taking a flamethrower to our government institutions
Imagine being a Democrat in 1984 watching this......
Horror show
@@LBJHater9000 nah a lot of democrats voted for Reagan. And we were less polarized back then.
@@augustopinochet42069 I was a democrat back in the 70s, 80s, 90s and the 00s. It wasn't until 2014 I switched by party. I did vote for Reagan and at the time I was living in the very liberal state of Tennessee. Weird to say that now haha.
@@stephenbates8111 do you think the southern strategy had an impact with southerners voting for liberal economics in the 20th century, then switching to conservative economics as a result of the republican party becoming socially and economically conservative?
@@stephenbates8111 - I live in TN as well. It's so weird going through each election and seeing TN go from red to blue to red again. We went with the winner of every election from 1964 to 2004.
Hard to imagine there was a time when basically the entire country was in support of one nominee. Those days are so far gone, it’s amazing.
@@fry9700 37.5 million people still voted for Mondale though 🤷♂️
I remember my brother telling me "you're probably not likely to see something this big for a long time if ever again" 😮
@@alexfilma16 Exactly. Without the electoral college, Reagan's Victory would not seem so impressive, and Hayes 1876, Bush '00, and Trump '16 would not have won.
No, normal for a country in a downward spiral.
@@PrimericanIdol Do you really know history?
These newscasters had such class. This is what professional journalism should be!
Reporting without bias opinions. What a breath of fresh air!
Notice, news is being reported. Not feelings and personal opinions like they do today. This is what my gen grew up with.
Yeah bro Fox News just complains and cries.
@@avacadomangobanana2588 They all do, now.
@@JeffBujak no. They don’t. Plenty of MSM still sticks to the facts. AP is a great example. PBS. ABC and CBS news are very Americanized news centers, but they’re “centrist” in the way of not challenging right wing extremist and pretending there are extreme leftists in the US But still, they stick to facts. Get with reality bud
@@avacadomangobanana2588so does everyone else
This was an ass-kicking of epic proportions. Final score 525-13 for Reagan.
But tbh this system makes it look like everyone voted for Reagan. 41% of the country voted for Mondale. Still an asskicking but damn
@@Adriaantje2008it's not about overall votes though it comes down to winning states
@@Adriaantje2008 even if you just consider the popular vote, it was something like 58-41 Reagan, no president I can think of has had that wide of a margin.
❤yes sir 😊
And the closest swing state in that election went to Mondale. It almost could have been 535-3
one thing ive noticed is that this news station is straight forward and to the point in this video, the man here shows no bias and speaks in a consistent voice. i'd love to watch a news station like this this is really nice.
Notice how Peter Perfect and David Brinkley always referred to Reagan as Mr. instead of President.
Honestly, CNN when it's doing projections sounds pretty normal, they go "X person won this state and here is their path to victory", etc.
It's only when they cover it that you get the bias like "unfortunately it looks like X is happening"
Wrong. Those bozos HATED Reagan even if the public largely liked him very much.
i didnt notice anything, i had completely forgotten i even made this comment
It's true that the media was biased back then and hated Reagan, but they WERE much better at hiding that bias than today's media.
Man... I can't even imagine how incredibly liberating it must have felt to be able to travel from coast to coast and feel the confidence that every single place you landed shared the same moral and political compass as you. That is something we'll likely never see ever again.
Good ol' days when coastlines and countryside shared the same political values!
Legend has it that Reagan won every province in Canada also that night. Along with Mexico, Zimbabwe, Bermuda and the United Kingdom. Even the planet of mars voted for him.
May I remind you that any thought of 'winning' the United Kingdom would have been firmly rebuffed by a certain Mrs Thatcher. It is fortunate indeed that they had a good relationship and mutual understanding.
That joke flew right over you didn’t it
@@Hereford1642do you also have a witty comment about the mars vote?
True
@@KatSuYeah Did he win in Mars, Pennsylvania?
If you're under the age of about 20 or so, this is what politics used to looked like. People were actually harmonious and put common sense before idealism. Parties existed for democratic balance, not citizen tribes.
The demographics have changed massively.
Lol, no
Well people went crazy during Covid so half of our population isnt doing so well anymore.
I'm 40 and have never seen that, times changed quickly.
@@savaget2058 Yes. By the time you were old enough to be concerned with politics, things were getting more messed up.
Mondale won one state. It was his home state. And it was the closest state of all 50. Amazing.
I think Nixon also got 49 states (all but Massachusetts) in 1972. However, Reagan got slightly more electoral votes. God bless Ronald Reagan 🙏
He also didnt live there for over 20 years at the time of this election lmao.
And the only reason Mondale even won that was because Reagan decided not to campaign in MN out of respect. If Reagan really wanted to he would’ve won that too.
@@ChrisSuperDude No, ever since Hubert Humphrey ran Minnesota has had Democrat worship in it's elections.
Which is another reason Minnesota should be returned to Canada.
Back when ABC wasn't biased, what a time to be alive
Or Fox.
@@savaget2058 and back when Fox News didn't actually exist
Yes it was. We gen-x crowd were a lucky bunch.......only the boomers had it better!
Or NBC and CBS. The media wasn't owned and controlled by Deep State globalists as it is today.
Back then the media produced a video titled bye bye Biden highlighting his plagiarism and lies. They thought his political career was finished.
Reagan: "I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponents' youth and inexperience." Mondale could not help but smiled. 1984.
That quip in the ‘84 debate was the nail in the coffin for Mondale and Mondale knew it
Mondale has said at that exact moment he knew he wasn't going to win. I am Republican but have to say Mindale was a nice guy
Smiled? He laughed out loud!
I think I remember that. Reagan said: There you go again.
@@mike197714Were these the Good Old days or What? If I Could go Back in a Time Machine and Be Put Back in the 80's I'd Stay there!! Anyone else ever Feel this Way?
I love it when almost all states were already announced before Minnesota so they could go "Hey, Mondale got one!"
It felt like watching Super Bowl 48, where you already know who’s going to win but you still just keep watching them pile up.
As a fan of the team who won it, thanks for bringing that memory in the comment section.
As a republican, it’s just satisfying to remember we won an election by this much
I gotta admit, Mondale got DOGGED in that election
Man I can't even imagine how amazing that Superbowl must have been for Seahawks fans where let's be honest that game was over after that first snap by the Broncos
Halftime up 22 points second half starts with an 87 yard kick off return 😂 end up being up 36 Points by the time the Broncos scored their first and only td in garbage time let's be honest but man that must be cool games only half over and yet the result is clear just chilling waiting for the game to end and your team officially declared world champions
@@kurtpunchesthings2411hilarious calling whoever wins American football, world champions , when it's only America that plays it 😅😅😅😅
@@gerald1108 I know it's a joke but it's cooler to say
" World champions
I just turned old enough to vote in 1984 and Mr. Reagan was the first President i ever voted for in New York State. As a youngster i didn't realize how historic this election would be. Many years later in 2024 i voted for Trump for the third time in another historic election. Life is crazy sometimes. God bless America 🇺🇸
I remember 1984 election and when the networks called Minnesota for Mondale fairly late in the evening, my dad says "isn't that nice that he finally won a state and it's his home state."
😂
A consolation prize
No bias commentary, no emotions, just reporting the facts. Take notes MSM!
@@Gomez1915 EXACTLY, JUST THE FACTS. 🇺🇸❤️👍
Compare the professionalism of these three (Jennings, Brinkley and Brokaw) to the meltdowns that their successors would have 32 years later on election night 2016. I don't know what these three men believed politically, but that was the point.
@@noname8710 pj and tb were gop. rather was dnc
No bias? Just look at what they choose to use for each candidates photo. The difference was back then they pretend on air not to be biased since it would be tolerated as the media was, at the time, supposed to be above that.
@@rodmunch69 the photos were fine
I miss the good old days where news anchors kept their bias and opinions to themselves.
Yeah Peter Jennings was one of the greats.
I enjoyed watching Maddow cry on election night 2016🤣
Ironically the fairness doctrine was revoked under Reagan which is why they are so biased today, and he even vetoed it when congress tried to bring it back in 1989.
@@johnmartin46412020 was even funnier.
@@dandeluxe8731 Don Lemon cried in 2020 even though he claimed his side won. No one on the right cried. Trump came out and yelled, Tucker and Hannity were angry, but no one cried like Maddow.
CNN: "It was a very close race, Mondale ran a flawless campaign"
Tbf he didnt run a bad campain. It was just that Reagan was too popular
@@andreag-punkt9319 Man was too popular that in the election New Hampshire, Connecticut and Maine were more Republican Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee percentage wise.
Good ol' times before it all went to shit.
I was 15 in 1984. The best decade during my lifetime.
The 80's was an amazing time!
1984 was the peak of humanity
@@fredgarvin716 couldn't agree more
Yup, I was 14. The 80's rocked. The 90's was the last great decade for the United States.
@@Flackvest Agreed 👍
Mondale also missed the Catholic Dinner like Kamala did.
@@mosesmanaka8109 history will repeat itself
@@NelsonNyongesa-s4n and it did congrats all the best for u country
@@kakun63 we're safe for four more years at least
@@JonTent-mz6fe yup problem here is same left so far left that they will burn the country for power
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
This had to be mind blowing to watch this live
I did. it was glorious.
It was. We knew Reagan won by 7 pm Eastern time. It was also the first presidential election I was old enough to vote.
It most certainly was.
@@kingofspades5098 It was! Everyone loved Reagan and the 80’s!
Yes and no, it wasn't mind-blowing that he won by a huge margin but to basically sweep Mondale wasn't expected
Man what a time to be alive. No interest groups, no think tanks, no bias from anchors and what seems to be like a united country!
Ya, it was awesome, I remember it
@ I don’t think we’ll ever get a glimpse of this again
You had to dig really deep to find the radical leftists back then. They were there, but they metastasized like a cancer over the years.
@@TheTomKellner We got pretty close to it with the 2024 election one. It was a public annihilation.
@ not really 😂 I wish it was but the lefties still showed up and it wasn’t close but. It wasn’t even close to this
I mean, can you even believe how horrible this defeat was. It's incredible.
Mondale must've felt like a real loser by the end and wanted to shout 'WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE LIKE ME?!'.
@@girlgarde It not that people don't like him, its that reagen was 100 times better.
@@girlgarde😅😅
This was before democrat started rigging elections
It also really exemplifies the issue with our electoral college. Reagan actually only had 60% of the popular vote. If you go by electoral college numbers however, which most people will, you'd think he was somewhere closer to 90% of the popular vote. This probably warps people's views about Reagan and the political landscape he lived in.
As a Minnesotan, I still find this a very comical election.
You probably voted for Obama, Hillary and Biden....🤮
Why is it so comical? To me it shows how f’n out of touch people in Minnesota are
y’all ruined it man :/ along with freaking washington dc
The People Republic of Minnesota!
@@chesucat They once voted in Jesse Ventura as governor. He sure proved to be a laughingstock and didn't even run again!
Mr.Reagan cleaned house. I remember this election night like yesterday. Btw I love the way they showed election results back then, very simple and straight to the point.
Imagine knowing the results of the election on election night. I'd honestly be surprised if that happened again.
AMEN SISTA!
TRUMP 2024
Color me surprised. We had a decisive outcome before midnight on the west coast. America needed that even more than it needed Trump.
@@Lennis01 Took until after bedtime for the East Coast though. And Kamala didn't get the memo until next morning, LOL.
I would actually watch the news if they were like this.
Unbiased and Tell it like it is.
I loved watching Peter Jennings back in the '80s. Really liked seeing John Stossel show up for special reports too, and, thankfully, Stossel is still around.
Back when it didn't take a week to count votes, no drop boxes, no universal mail in ballots.
If they had them Mondale might have won lol
@@tomdrew1297that’s a bunch of bullshit and you know it
@@tomdrew1297 Na, Reagan was very much popular among pretty much everyone, although he did p*ss of quite a few groups in his second term.
no dead people voting
fewer votes to count and wider margin of victory allows for early 'proections' the same projections some people bitch about as being undemocratic because 'not all the votes' have been counted. lol.
It would be nice if we could go back to a time when people voted based on the candidate and not just blindly vote for the person with a D or R next to their name.
If we had a president as good and likable as Reagan, maybe that would be possible
@@bigpapi6688I don't think it would be possible. This country is soooooooo divided by political party lines. I think you could put Ted Bundy up there and a majority of the right would vote for him over Biden, and you could put Jeffery epstien up there and the majority of the left would vote for him over Trump. Most voters literally vote for the R or D.
@@Raiders1234 Most voters are morons.
Exactly right !
so basically, never? people always voted along party lines. nowadays is no different
Back in the day when news media people just reported the facts Peter Jennings. You are a great!
A video clip that took me back down memory lane, and still puts a BIG SMILE on my face today. I remember that night vividly.
My dad told me that he was waiting in line to vote in Minneapolis near the time polls were closing. People were shouting out their windows that Reagan won before he even got to cast a ballot.
Reagan did not even campaign there yet lost by a few thousand. If he wanted it he could have done the 50 state sweep by going to the suburbs of Minneapolis. Kinda wish someone achieved the feat
The fact that DC was so far removed from what the people were feeling even back in 1984 is such a telling fact.
Washington, DC has voted Democratic since 1964 after the 23rd Amendment was approved. Similarly, the state of Utah has voted Republican in every election since 1968.
@@JimHeathChannel so what I’m hearing is pick one representative from Washington DC and one representative from Utah to fight to the death, winner gets our country
I mean, it could also just be, you know, DC being a city. A lot of cities voted moreso Democratic in 1984.
So true. It's absurd.
It was majority black, what do you expect?
Back when people didn’t just vote along party lines.
America is better that people vote more on party lines when it comes to federal public offices/seats.
@@Raspberries9372 uhh how?
I have a very republican friend who is actually considering voting for RFK Jr.
@@josephr.bidenjr9908 key word: more
I said it’s good that America has been voting more along their party lines when it comes to federal offices. Such as voting for president and senate.
@@Raspberries9372 But why? I'm an environmentalist and I believe in tax sponsored healthcare. But I also believe in gun rights and I am a christian. There isn't really any place in either big party for me.
@@serronserron1320 it’s good thing because it makes republican and democrat party unite on their own sides to fight in battle ground states and districts. It makes them go out their way to gain voters to fight, gain and conquer.
Look at Reagans Presidency. He won by landslide but the house congress was majority democrat. Weighing down a lot of what he wanted. Same can be said about Richard Nixon, bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Wow I'd like to go back to 1984, what a time!
I loved '84. So many cool things happening. Hair metal was kicking off. Solar eclipse. I was discovering girls. Reagan was our POTUS. Marino dominated. Chocolate milk was still an option for school lunch.
The only places that voted for Mondale:
1. District of Columbia
2. His home state
And Gilligan's Island
Leave it to DC. Fantasyland.
even Iowa and the Dakotas could not Help.
@@joeomalley2835 DC loves DemoCrats
DC is an embarrassment
1979 graduating high school Duluth East MN Mondale was our keynote speaker. I still voted Reagan.
How these guys kept from laughing I'll never know, true professionals.
They were crying inside.
@@MK-fc2hnvery true. The media despised Reagan.
Radical left didn’t exist
7:39 "Well at least Mondale has a shot at Massachusetts..."
Literally one second later: "We project Massachusetts for Reagan"
Ronald Reagan also won the Superbowl, Stanley cup, and an Oscar that year.
Back when they were professional and not allowed to be dumb children in elementary school.
And a Grammy of Best Latin Album
while Mondale made the Playoffs, but was One and Done.
@@Phil-tt3xg he won content creator of the year too
@@Phil-tt3xg and the Heisman
As it turns out, telling people that you are going to raise their taxes as a campaign promise doesn’t work out amazingly well.
At least he was honest though, even if that totally killed off whatever miniscule chance he ever had at winning! That of which was also a big reason as to why he might as well be the first major party candidate to select a woman as his running mate, knowing there wasn't a snowball's chance in Hell that Reagan was going to possibly lose this election, while having virtually no ammunition to throw at his opponent for that matter either. Yet you gotta admit it was fairly impressive that four out of ten voters actually preferred Mondale over Reagan. Not bad for someone who just BARELY won a mere single state if you ask me too! L.O.L.!
@@freakyfornash Right, reagan on the other hand didnt tell us about his plan for Iran Contra which very well could have been going on during this election. And yes, people look at the electoral map and call this a blowout but Mondale did actually win 4/10 voters which if the electoral vote mimicked that, reagan would have won 323 EV's. Still a solid win but nowhere near the blowout people try to say this was.
@rawn4203 well at least you admit this was a solid win lol
@@conservative4523 I really cant deny it, even winning the PV by 60/40 cant be argued against.
@@conservative4523solid win , yeah a 75 -25 senate and 334 democratic hold in the house
I remember this. It was pretty amazing. My parents liked Mondale but voted Reagan as so many others did. They did not like what the Democratic Party was becoming. And just 15 years earlier they were staunch democrats. Most tv stations used blue for republicans and red for democrats. I think only abc did the opposite.
L parents.
would reagan support trump NEVER!!!
@@patrickmulroney9452 who cares? Let it go.
Your parents were smart to figure out how the party was becoming bad . glad they saw the light
@@patrickmulroney9452 And how would you know? Bob Dole did.
Trump is our Reagan reborn ❤️🇺🇸💪🏻
He has shown that he can talk the talk, but can he walk the walk?
(Not trying to debate anyone here)
The closest anyone has ever gotten to beating Jeb Bush's historical all state sweep in the 2016, 2020, 2024, and 2032 presidential election.
jeb!
Please Clap 👏👏👏👏
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👏
JEB!
Mondale is catching up, he's got three electoral votes...lol!
to be fair Reagans lead dropping to 15% in a state was what passed for drama that night
@@paratrooper321fa why didn’t they just declare it for Reagan once he gained 270?
@@3dartistguy because that would have been at 830 at night they had to drag it out more
@@paratrooper321fa why it was essentially over
@@3dartistguy the thing to remember this was before cable tv all the tv networks in the country blocked off the date for the election coverage. From the : us election night 1984 nbc live coverage they called it at 1h15m into the broadcast.
Also by 9pm they were seeing if Reagan was going to sweep all 50 states.
40 years later and our improvements in technology has actually regressed to the point where we don’t know who wins on election night.
It’s because of the damn mail in ballots. It’s criminal.
I was only 2 years old when this took place. 2-year-old me was not old enough to appreciate this victory. 42-year-old me appreciates it!
@schooltrashers same here man!!
People who are not old enough to remember,may not have realized how popular Reagan was at the time
You have to remember Carter was in over his head as President and pride in being an American was down .one of the things Reagan did was reverse that
@compilationhub54because the economy boomed, patriotism flourished and the country was reborn.
@@donniefleuryy.29read my reply below
@@Sole-tx9cx thanks for the east to digest, short explanation
@@donniefleuryy.29 You are welcome
I can't imagine being in a world where the news is straightforward and just told the news as it is, and people voted whoever without antagonizing each other's candidate or party.
You should read up on Bleeding Kansas then. Democrats then vs. Democrats now. Not a lot has changed. The 1984 election was merely one where the Democrats had little to offer but "tax and spend" against what was essentially a nationwide block party of indulgences.
It was like a boxing match with a knock-out after three seconds...
More like a Mike Tyson boxing match from back in the day, which would barely last a minute during his prime too! L.O.L.!
@@freakyfornash - More like trying to fight Mike Tyson while handcuffed.
😂😂
Yess
@ShawnKendricks Won't dare argue with that after what happened last night! 😂 XD
Like Brazil Germany in 2014.
Anyone alive when Jimmy Carter was in office will understand why Fritz Mondale lost so badly in 84. Nobody wanted to go back to the sky high gas prices and stagflation of the Carter years.
Yep, and anybody who just lived through the last four years when Biden was in office and understand why Harris lost.
My sis and I were young back then. We had babysitters. In '76, we had one. In '77,'78 we had a few of them.
@@lisalu910b-but Orange Man Bad!
I was born in and still live in Massachusetts to this day. I was born in the '90s, and could never imagine this state voting for a Republican president. Obviously President Reagan is the exception.
Things were way different back then
@@backtobasic8566 different back then. Democrats weren’t complete victim players constantly and radical! There was no antifa and BLM burning cities down while they buy million dollar houses in white communities. Back when we took care of Florida 1st instead of Ukraine which has never helped us in any way. It has helped Joe and Hunter get rich though. We had secure boarders back then and out America 1st! I miss those times! When only women could get pregnant and we could clearly define what a woman was.
@@rs8247 Yes! Totally agree!
We had a 3.2% unemployment rate, interest rates were down, gas was cheap, no inflation and rising wages. It was a fantastic time in America, following the Jimmy Carter 4 year nightmare.
I was born and raised in California, and born in the '90s also, and I never thought I'd see California red! 😮
I'm so ready for America to be united again. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and the late 80s early 90s was peak America for me.
@josephblankenship591 Beg your pardon, but what about the 2000s and the 2010s decades where George w bush and Barack Obama are presidents?
Besides, they both are at least fine presidents to me.
Amen!
@@jamesmukuria4673 the middle east would like to have a word with you
@@DrMemesYT no thanks.
@@JoJoDaTireMan Stop waiting. It's not going to happen. Democrats are no longer democrats. They're communists now and real Americans will never unite with communists.
I love watching these historical videos…I was too young to remember this happening live but enjoy seeing this so many years later.
I remember and I become more sad with each watching my republic slowly die
I was born in 82 but damn I miss that decade
Mondale received three more electoral votes than I got, and I didn't even run.
And you or Mondale would likely have made a better president than Reagan.
@@bemhibbits4157 Thanks! To this day I have mixed feelings about Reagan. No president is 100% bad or 100% good. His second term was way more problematic than his first - probably due in part to his age.
@@bemhibbits4157 Economic prosperity and winning the Cold War sure suck, right?
@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont No it was ignoring AIDS and his help-the-rich tax plan. Good orator, no doubt.
@@bigverybadtom Economic prosperity??
In 1986, unemployment was at 7%. Interest rate on a 30 year mortgage was at 9%. A year of slow growth and moderate inflation, and the dollar was weak. WTF are you talking about?? Did you hit your head?
the only reason the cold war ended was because the Soviets finally went broke. Reagan had nothing directly to do with it. Anymore than Clinton had anything to do with the booming tech economy. You thank Reagan for ending the Cold war, you better thank Clinton for the internet.
My 1st time voting was 1984 and I remember having a Reagan/Bush bumper sticker on my car. N.J. was a different state then. Great memories and yes America loved President Reagan
Too bad about all the black and gay people he killed :(
my First Presidential Vote too!...and I never ever regretted that one..
That’s embarrassing lmao
@@travisdarko5781
🔴254 Electoral Votes REAGAN
to
🔵3 Electoral Votes MONDALE
...that was what was truly embarrassing...
📺⇠😆 even liberal SNL did a hilarious skit..." since Everyone was voting for Reagan...they asked Mondale, why not you Vote for him too, and make it unanimous?"
Too bad. Given that trickle down economics slowly gutted our economy, how does one profiteer 2 separate world wars and still manage to squander that generational wealth in one lifetime?
My history teacher was a high ranking worker on the Mondale Ferraro campaign.
He said they all knew they basically had no hope.
Mondale was like Mccgovern. Knew he couldn’t beat a popular incumbent but hey they had to put up somebody. 😂😂.
I'm a lifelong Republican - having voted for the first time for Ronald Reagan in 1980 (I go WAY back!) - but I've gotta say that Geraldine Ferraro was an awesome woman. I didn't agree with all her political views but she was an intelligent, accomplished, classy, and charming person and would have been a great bet for a Democratic candidate in her own right.
I remember watching this at 15 years old and loving every minute of it.
And Reagan was such a down to earth fellow. Loved his wife, his horses, and his country.
And started as a Democrat. Was even a union leader (Screen Actors Guild). And the more he thought about things the more he realized that he wasn't a Democrat after all.
The reason he won this big wasn’t because of political view in fact a good amount of people didn’t agree with him but they trusted him. My parents were in high school during the 80s and they said that even though people disagreed with Reagan they still liked and trusted him. Much different from what we see today with politicians.
So erotic and so sensual to think that
Did they trust him with his big iran contra coverup?
I guess the Iran Contra Affair wouldn't break the news for a couple years.
@@RisingRecluse True, it likely had either just started or was about to start around this time.
@@rawn4203he still would've won
I thought Carter got his behind handed to him in '80, but this is next-level!!!
Republicans winning California? ABC not hating republicans? No talking nonstop about racism? Must have been good times
and Reagan takes a huge amount of blame for how shit the world is now. ironic
I feel like Regan is like Obama, a President with an easy election victory and great human being, but questionable president.
Mondale BARELY carried his home state of Minnesota by about 4,000 votes. To put it another way, we came within one vote per precinct of carrying the state for Reagan. We did re-elect Sen. Rudy Boschwitz and took control of the MN house.
Minnesota did go for Nixon in 1972, though :) That race was actually more lopsided than 1984 from a popular vote standpoint. Richard Nixon received over 60 percent of the vote that year, a feat that Reagan was (barely) unable to duplicate.
Outside of the Twin Cities, it was all Reagan.
@@MirzaAhmed89 I can believe that, many cities in the U.S tend to vote Democrat while the parts of the states that they're in that aren't big cities tend to vote Republican.
Just look at Washington and Oregon, the big cities like Seattle and Portland vote Democrat (which has caused them major problems) while the rest of their states vote Republican but because they're outnumbered population wise, those states go to whoever the Democrat candidate is in U.S presidential elections.
@@girlgardelook at IL. It’s red everywhere baring Chicago and some suburbs. Or as a better example PA, it’s so red it’s a joke but Philly and the suburbs made jt blue. When you don’t appeal to suburbs you can’t expect rural areas to save you
@@mam162Nixon’s victory was inflated to a large degree by him getting dictator margins in the south and this inflated his popular vote total. Getting 66% in TX and 72% in FL is what am talking about plus 58% in NY . Elsewhere he won but not equally. Reagan in 1984 was the most well rounded victory ever since he performed well everywhere unlike Nixon who underperformed in key Republican constituencies.
10:29 Mondale wins Minnesota. Chris Paul hits a huge 3 to cut the lead to 42
CP3 electoral votes
"no democrat has ever won without winning Texas" "republicans have won New Jersey in the last 4 elections"
Man, times have changed lol
New York City and Philly slime oozing into the state over the last 40 yeara lol
People forget Joe Biden came close to winning Texas in 2020 was only off by four points
@@TimmyTheTinman Trump won Texas by roughly 5.6% en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas
@@TimmyTheTinman six points
Lol
I have to say thank you for putting this video up. On my 18th birthday this was my first election to vote in. When I was at the point where I could vote on November 4th which just so happened to be my 18th birthday.
I was still a senior and I was the only one that was able to vote. Because of my birthday I had to start school a year later. I was also the first of my class to get my driver's license on my birthday.
Again thank you for the memories.
David
Wow, imagine that, they can count all the votes in a single night. Why on earth can’t we do that today?
Back then you wouldn't have someone go pick up the ballot drop box at 7:30pm, return at 3am with tens of thousands of ballots without a single republican vote to add to the tally.
Wish I could go back in time and relive this amazing decade. It was the best time of my life!
True
Yes it was! No division just a good time. And Atari 😂
@@bjenkins803And no "Preferred Pronouns".. 😂
And Metallica at its best!
Because you were young maybe? In the 80s people called the 50s the best decade
What a magical night. I was 17 and remember watching this -- my parents always watched ABC.
Reagan was a beast a true American
This was my second election to vote in. I was in the Air Force and in MS. Happy and proud to have voted for Reagan. 2024 now and happily cast my vote for Trump.
@@jamescutler8055 you are suddenly LOST. Feel sorry for you and your family.
@@jrc872 Don't, we are doing great, 9 kids 5 grand kids. We all live within 10 miles of each other and see each other all the time. I took them all to the polls Tuesday to vote and they where all happy to vote Trump and GOP. That is 15 total votes from my kids their spouses and my wife and I.
@@jrc872 🤡 🤡🤡🤡🤡
It appears that you are the one lost.
@jamescutler8055 How's it feel voting for a guy who dodged a draft, given himself multiple fake purple hearts, and continuously makes fun of the military?
It wis so intriguing to me to see the Nation as a whole all agree on someone for the most part. I don't think I've lived in a time where it wasnt a razor edge majority.
Dems dominate popular votes since 1992.
It is a good thing. Having closer elections means two things - people making laws are careful about whether they have a public mandate for them, and the opposition is not left as merely a symbolic one, they still have influence, so their supporters are not completely alienated. It also is a symptom of there being a larger clash of ideas and visions for the country, which is good for democracy.
@@Michael-mh2twthat's the reason for the electoral college in a nutshell. Majority doesn't rule but number of states gained=everyone has a voice.
@@Rick-qh2zu I love when votes in battleground and small states have more weight than others
@@shotguncreeper i love when a minority of voters get a majority of the electoral college votes, allowing a deeply unpopular party to remain in power. What an awful system of government.
What a charismatic clean sweep by Reagan in 1984.
What a great feeling, watching this history...that I was an active participant in!!!
I miss those days when states like California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont were solidly red.
They are trying to turn Texas blue.
@@AFT_05G as a Californian, I really do too
@@AFT_05G Texas was blue tho 😭
The whole country wishes they were capable of seeing reality and voting accordingly. City folk be crazy.
@@AFT_05G Reagan did help to make California blue.
One cool thing about watching these is seeing the change in electoral votes. Texas was only worth 29, and since then it has gained 11!
And Louisiana had 10 while today it only has 8. Interesting stuff.
Bruh just crushed it. I was born in 1971. I grew up in the 80s. I loved me some Hair Bands, hated New Wave, and fell in love with Randy Rhoads, The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Terminator, Hot Dog: The Movie, Up the Creek, The Blues Brothers, Strange Brew, Mount St Helens, etc., etc! *What I miss most from the 1980s is PRESIDENT Ronald Wilson Reagan!*
I am proud to say I got to vote for the very first time in 1984 for Ronald Reagan and 2024 I got to vote for Donald J Trump God bless both of them🇺🇲✝️
religious people shouldn't be allowed to vote yikes
@@Binzob suck |t, you lost LOL
Me too, was my first presidential election. I loved Reagan, I am still working 43 years later and ready to retire, from the company I got a job with at 19 because of his successful presidency. God bless his memory.
My very first vote was for Reagan in 1980, I had just turned 18 and couldn't wait to register to vote for my candidate. I sure miss those days.
I'm ready to see a repeat of this in a few days.
Not happening
@TheMackoftheyear It would if only Americans voted.
cry @helljumper5613
Too much fraud going on.
@helljumper5613 won't ever happen in our lifetime. The Democratic Party made sure that states such as Califronia won't change for decades. They basically pay minorities and immigrants to vote democrat.
Love the old school accents and the absolutely simple and dispassionate journalistic coverage, bereft of agenda or gratuitous commentary
Peter Jennings was Canadian. It's not an "old school accent," it's a canadian one.
You said it all, dude! Back when there still was some class left in those tv talking heads.
@@jlma-xc9ol You mean the Canadian accent hasn't changed since the 1980s?
@@FarhanAmin1994 Correct
@@jlma-xc9olWhoa! I see.
I remember one comedian joked back then about this saying "This guy spent millions to run and I spent nothing and almost tied him"
Different country 40 years ago. This was before mass amnesty for illegals and wokeness. For Trump to win over 300 EVs and the popular in 2024 was really as impressive as Reagan's 1984 win.
When Dems were normal people
It was impressive, but nowhere need 84’ election impressive. It’s more like an 08’ impressive