Election Night 1972 Coverage CBS News 7:00-7:30

[efan2011]

@TheMcCainiac He looks like a reject from the old Star Trek show, lol.

[zaius316]

I keep waiting for Leslie Nielsen to do something wacky in that Ford commercial!

[efan2011]

@zaius316 Nope this was in his more serious days.

[Michael1966W]

Obama will probably get re-elected but it won't be anything like '64, '72 or '84. With the fact he will lose Indiana and North Carolina back to the Republicans pretty well says it will be a close race. Romney is a far better cry than Goldwater, McGovern, Dukakis or MCCain who all 4 of these men had no buisness winning any nomination to be dog catcher much less president. Mondale was a great candidate, just the times were against him as him being VP to one of the worst Presidents ever.

[efan2011]

@Michael1966W

I really don't know what will happen to be honest. I think he could win, but he will loose the swing states he gained in 2008, it will most likely be a close race. But it depends on if Trump decided to run, he could take away enough of the Republican's votes to give Obama a landslide. We will know for sure by May or June.

[Michael1966W]

Thanks for putting this on

[efan2011]

@Michael1966W  No problem, I am glad you liked it!

[stringbenderE2E]

This is what's going to happen to Obama next year. See ya Barry!

[efan2011]

@stringbenderE2E

From the way it looks now, it does not look good for Obama

[hellboundmatt]

@stringbenderE2E except he's pulling up in the polls and beats almost every candidate in the National polls by decent margins. The only one who is close is Romney and he's still leading him by a few points... I would stop watching FOX and reading drudge and actually read statistics if I were you

[wmbrown6]

The announcer on duty for CBS that night was Stuart Metz.

[dgendvil]

The very young, late Leslie Nielsen (who died this year) appears in the Ford commercial at 7:55.

[efan2011]

@dgendvil

Yep, and this was in his more serious days...

[WayneInSF]

@dgendvil - About a month after this election coverage, Mr. Nielsen would appear in the biggest box office hit of 1973, "The Poseidon Adventure."

[mattLAW]

Thanks for the upload! I was four years old when this happened. I like that funky music at the opening.

[efan2011]

@mattLAW

No problem! And yes it is quite a different tune than you would usually hear nowadays...

[CoolBlue71]

Thanks for uploading. I wonder if anyone has election-night coverage of 1964?

[altfactor]

@CoolBlue71 I don't, but I suspect the only network that broadcast it's 1964 election-night coverage in color was NBC.

I was a small tyke then, but I seem to recall that NBC's studio segments and remotes from the Johnson and Goldwater headquarters were in color, with other remotes in black-and-white.

ABC and CBS broadcast their 1964 election-night coverage in black-and-white.

The 1966 midterms were the first to be broadcast in color by all three networks.

[efan2011]

@altfactor

I just wish I could find some of the '64 EN coverage anywhere, the only thing around is a post election wrap up specual, which is of no use. The same with 66.

I do have like an hour of 1968 coverage in color though, it's pretty cool to see