Ron, we need you!!!! On second thought, you are in a much better place right now. God bless you for being with us when you did. ES
Posted on 11/04/2011 2:23:45 PM PDT by SMGFan
What a wonderful night it was when Ronald Reagan was elected and GOP won the Senate defeating all of those liberals! I hate that the media gave blue to the Democrats. Yes , I have read about this.
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They must have looked into the future to see that Monika Lewinsky would have Bubba Clinton stained Blue Dress. lol
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Remember it well. Bought my first VCR and came home to record the election results. By the time I got it hooked up, I was stunned to see that NBC News had declared RR the winner and the electoral map was a sea of blue. Back then, the GOP states were blue. That, supposedly from a race “too close to call”
Still have those tapes somewhere. One of the most euphoric feelings ever.
I do wonder how things would have been if the Congresses during his tenure had been Republican . . .
Ron, we need you!!!! On second thought, you are in a much better place right now. God bless you for being with us when you did. ES
Lord, thank you for blessing us with your servant Ronald Reagan.
I was at the Loews Anatole in Dallas with a lot of the Texas campaign staff - what a great memory!!
Thanks for the reminder.
Oh, I remember it! I was extremely pregnant with my third child and it was the first election I voted in. I stood in line quite awhile, but since I was actually due that week, they got a chair for me and let me sit in line. Everyone was very nice (I think they were afraid I would give birth in line)!
I was so thrilled to cast my vote for Ronald Reagan and it was a very jovial crowd in Midland TX that day. I thought, at the time, that it was always like this, voting FOR someone. Little did I know it would be the last time I would happily cast my vote for a candidate I was completely excited about. But it’s a very happy memory. God Bless Ronald Reagan, my favorite President! :)
Very, very much the truth !
> “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
“By the time I got it hooked up, I was stunned to see that NBC News had declared RR the winner “
I was living in Alaska at the time. We heard RR had won before we even left work that night to go to our polling place. Wonderful day!
I was a mere lad of 13 and I remember watching these two that night. Chancellor kept his cool but Brokaw was blown away and couldn't conceal it.
Those are Reagan victories in Blue. Brokaw's capacious melon hides a lonely Red state that went to Carter.
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I could not vote for Reagan until 1984.
As I posted on September 1st I was in the audience for Ronald Reagan at Jersey City’s Liberty State Park on September 1st, 1980.
It was a far better day 31 years ago compared to the day after Jimmy ‘I’ll never lie to you” Carter had won 1n 1976.
Wikipedia on 1980 election is not bad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1980
That night, I was in Reagan headquarters in Ohio. We were incredibly nervous, but had a sense that things were going our way. I recall watching the races being called, East to West, and the same nearly-uniform color washing over the network maps. Tears of joy and cries of relief. What a feeling. What a night.
link to 1980 ads
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1980
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