Posted on 10/25/2016 3:02:35 PM PDT by NYer
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And that was 1980, when everyone had a landline and answered their phone.
The polls nowadays must be even less accurate.
I loved the look of dismay on the commentator’s faces that night. It was one of my greatest memories.
Why is hillary hitting Utah and TX. What is she, nuts?
I remember the media telling me Reagan was going to lose - but my gut told me he was a way better candidate. Plus I was a college student worried about finding a job when I graduated.
The amount of early voting, voting by mail, and voter fraud was minuscule in 1980 compared to what we have today. Reagan was also a known political figure. Trump is a massive wildcard politically. I don’t know if Trump plays to the middle as well as Reagan, even when compared to evil reincarnated as Hillary. And where Reagan appealed to the blue dog/conservative DEMs, that group is almost non-existent in America today.
It seems like she thinks the election’s in the bag. By vote stealing, I guess.
The polls are wrong!
The crowds at the dem rallies are tiny, and ours are overflowing!
The news channels are lying!
They don't know what's about to hit them!
And on election night all my hopes are on a small county in Ohio that ends up 58% Dem and 42% Repub.
Are we going to have to go through this AGAIN!!??
Their internals may be telling her to expand the map. Not sure about Texas, except it plays to the MSM's interest in reporting it. Seems she would be better off trying to pick up some light red states.
A common theme in elections where the media is shocked like in 1980 and, hopefully, 2016 is the insulated mindset that can’t imagine the polls (affected by that insulation) missed the mood of the electorate.
1980 was my first election to vote. I was so happy to vote that I did not care that everyone said The Gipper would never get elected. I was so elated the next day that I began to recruit fellow students to form the first College Republicans chapter at my university.
YouTube is a treasure. I highly recommend watching the 1980 Election night coverage of Reagan’s landslide victory.
They never saw it coming.
That Hillary may win this election? You bet I am concerned.
1980 was a bad time to be coming into the job market. And for those with a job, the double-digit inflation was devastating.
Rush made the point today that the unemployed now get a lot more welfare than they did in 1980.
And the demographics are a lot different today.
I don’t have a handle on how the difference in the MSM in 1980 compared to today affects things.
In 1980, the MSM big three networks had such a monopoly, that they were less overt in their propaganda than today, when the MSM shouts to get their message out.
In 1980, the MSM was more subliminal.
So it’s hard to project from 1980 to today. I guess we’ll see in two weeks!
I occassionally re-watch parts of that night on youtube...warms my heart.
BRINKLEY: I’d like to ask a question of you folks. We have here what I think reasonably could be called a landslide or certainly something approaching a landslide. Where did it come from? Nobody anticipated it. No polls predicted it. No one saw it coming. How did that happen? I don’t want to knock the polls, because I believe in them, and they generally do very good work. One thing I wondered. Have a lot of people — did a lot of people decide to vote for Reagan, but didn’t want to say so?
Looking forward to deja-vu all over again Nov. 8.
Mike Gallagher had a pollster on this morning (fox) saying they weren’t seeing a movement toward Trump. Somebody’s wrong somewhere.
I had a YUGE liberal tell me today that he was voting Trump. This guy voted for Obama twice and used to be what I would consider one of the liberal elite. He has seen the light and was even talking about wikileaks and how corrupt the left is now. He let me know that he would never openly and verbally support Trump, but that he wanted to vote for him.
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