This is for election junkies only. Interesting to watch how different and how similar the reporting was 36 years ago. Only 4 minutes and 33 seconds and gets you ready for Tuesday night. We are having our fifth election night party in a row, the score so far – 2 for Clinton, 2 for Bush.
He got his vote count and percentages mixed up. Did you notice that?
Yikes!! I can’t believe this video. The local part at the end is from my local CBS station here in Washington DC. The reason this is particularly of interest is that the broadcast covers returns from the ’72 Virginia senate race between Wm. Spong, Jr. (incumbent Democrat) and Wm. Scott. I was the office manager at Spong’s Northern Virginia campaign office. He lost. The winner, Bill Scott, was the first Republican senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia since Reconstruction. It was a major blow to my young sense of political idealism.
Not to mention, of course, how badly Nixon beat McGovern that year – the first year I voted in the Presidential election.