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NBC's 1980 Election Night Coverage: Shock, Dismay -- and Faulty Polling
« on: October 26, 2016, 05:34:34 PM »
NBC's 1980 Election Night Coverage: Shock, Dismay -- and Faulty Polling
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/25/nbc_s_1980_election_night_coverage_shock_dismay_and_faulty_polling

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RUSH: Yesterday on this program I discussed the 1980 election, Ronaldus Magnus and Jimmy Carter, and in it I described the election night coverage that night and how I will never forget it. Because this was the election that they called it for Reagan before California had even closed the polls, it was such a landslide.

Yet the last polling data going into the election in 1980 had Jimmy Carter winning by nine points.  And so Cookie went back to the archives and got a bunch of audio from John Chancellor, Judy Woodruff, Tom Brokaw and David Brinkley on NBC's election night coverage of 1980 simply because of the way I had described it yesterday.  It was even discussed on Fox & Friends today.  So we'll start with those two just to set it up.

Jimmy Carter was running on his second term and looks like he would win overwhelmingly against Ronald Reagan in 1980. That was proven wrong.
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Re: NBC's 1980 Election Night Coverage: Shock, Dismay -- and Faulty Polling
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2016, 06:10:57 PM »
Good times, good times . . . :whistling:
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