You all are so lucky to have lived and worked during the heyday of this country. While our social fabric was still somewhat intact, when finding a job wasn't impossible, when Americans were still proud to be Americans and intelligent. You all are blessed unlike my generation.
Yes; Mondale did win just one state, and it was his home state of Minnesota; other than that, he only won that and the District of Columbia, for a total of 13 votes; Reagan won the other 49 states for a total of 525 Electoral Votes.
@smokes2468 Actually, Mondale only held his home state of Minnesota by about 3,300 votes (if memory serves). He, of course, won the District of Columbia. No Republican has ever taken DC since the first presidential election where they were allowed to vote in 1964. And, I believe it is a sign of the Second Coming if DC ever went Republican.
In 2010, for the first time, some voters were allowed to "legally" vote 6 times (yes, that's right, 6 times), in a New York county. The resson the anti-Constitutional judge gave a segment of citizens an un-Constitutional advantage was that they were racially profiled and determined to be "minority" members.
That's the best part of the debate because even Mondale had class. I mean people can learn from Democrats like Mondale because he knew when he lost the election and he knew he wasn't going to win. He even had a sense of humor, ubnlike today's democrats.
@Shinimegami86 get over it...it was 41 years ago Southern Stategy was a political tool, just like raising taxes, welfare state are the tool for Democrats to keep blacks in poverty. I'm black and I'm over the party of the Welfare State.
With who? Palin? She's a moron. Won't happen. the Republicans are a bunch a fascists who led us to ruin. They are not connected to Reagan at all. Stay in fantasy land, it's better off for the rest of us.
Well, how about Romney? In terms of the fascists who led us to ruin -- while I disagreed with Bush on the Iraq War and other matters, please remember that Democrats have been in complete control of Congress since 2006, and Barney Frank and his idiotic policy ideas were what contributed to the housing crisis and the disastrous economic downfall. The president may have been Republican at the time, but Democrats controlled most of government. Think about it.
Uh you are half right, but Obama will be the one landsliding you guys again.And deep down inside I think you know it.l But that's ok, keep saying to yourself it wont happen, just like you did about a year ago....
@rawn4203 Landsliding again? He won by 6 % points, a landslide is considered 10 points or better. Reagan won by 20% points in '84. Obama will have a chance to be re-elected again but if the economy is still bad, he will be in a landslide but the other way around; on the losing in of the race. Plus in order to win a landslide you must win in the south, Obama don't have a prayer in the South, so there goes your landslide dream. You may be talking about Electoral College. That don't count
Youre a riot. In the steal, oops I mean election, of 2k, you guys didnt even want to talk about the popular vote, it was all about the electoral college and how that should override the popular vote. Funny how you change your tunes like that so fast.
Obama wont win the whole south just like a republican wont ever win the west coast or the northeast. But obama won enough of the south (NC, and the biggest prize there, Florida) to trounce mccain. Obama will get Georgia in 2012 too.
@rawn4203 Well as a black man who worked on the Gore Campaign in 2000 and plus a resident in GA, Obama will lose GA. If he couldn't beat McCain in Ga in 2008, what make you think he will win Ga in 2012. I live in Augusta the only county in Ga Obama won in 2008. I voted for Gore in 2000, but rules states you go by Electoral College. So your statement about "you guys" is incorrect. I did vote for Bush in '04 and McCain in '08. As a college Freshman I voted for Clinton in '96.
Well if you live there fine I'll believe it. But I definitely noticed Obama did significantly better there than Kerry. That is a trend.
Now, I live in AZ and Obama is definitely targeting this state, as evidenced by his multiple visits here this year. Even with Mccain being from here, Obama lost it by a respectable 45-54. Funny how Mccain said during the election "im from the southwest, vote for me". And the only sw states he won were AZ and mindless Utah.
@rawn4203 well you are correct, McCain was a weak, weak weak Candidate. I am a pragmatic Independent Conservative. I left the dem party because I felt like the Dems take the black voted for granted. Mondale won the black vote in '84 and lost every single demographic held historically by democrats: Women, ages 18-24, 60 years old and older and farmers, Union workers. How in the HELL did he win the black vote? Because we have been told to vote dem because they care about us.
@rawn4203 well we followed after that with Michael Dikacus(misspell) and in '88 we lost again to Bush, Sr. Michael lost every group like Mondale and won the black vote, We as blacks never think outside of the box like other Democratic voters. Women and older people voted for Reagan and Bush because they saw Mondale as a joke when he proclaimed I will RAISE YOU TAXES WITH A SMILE...WHAT AN IDIOT. No wonder he lost 49 states.
After seeing what Reagan did in his first term, I voted for Mondale in '84 -- and afterward I switched from being a Republican to a Democrat. Have been ever since!
Yeah! And the guy who promised to get us out of Iraq and to win the war in Afghanistan and give us a true bi-partisan spirit in Washington -- that was was all bull. Hey, wait a second. That's Obama! Hmmm. Seems like there is a lot of bull to go around, eh?
If you can show me a video of Obama saying he'd have the 2 bush messes in Iraq and Afganistan all cleaned up by October of 2009, I will give you million bucks. Bi-partisan - what part of keeping robert gates as sec of defense and nominating sonia sotomayor (a bush41 appellate court appointee) do you have trouble comprehending?
He never gave an exact date for withdrawal from Iraq or winning the war in Afghanistan -- I suppose we will just have to have "faith" in this inexperienced junior senator then, huh? Sotomayor is rabidly pro-abortion. Gates is kept on to maintain a little continuity. Hardly bi-partisan, especially with the rest of the administration purely democratic and both houses of Congress in the Democrat stranglehold since 2006. No bi-partisanship there.
Also you can add the idiotic and childish way the Democratic Congress tried to ram through a massively expensive health care initiative before the recess, the current re-writing (behind closed doors) of the bills until nothing the Republicans proposed remains in them, and Obama's ludicrous assertion of bi-partisanship when there was a SINGLE Republican vote in favor of his health care initiative. Ridiculous.
Sounds like the republicans dont mind it when the dems go along with their ideas (iraq, afganistan anybody??) yet when dems propose ideas, the republicans just want to take their ball and go home. Yes, very ridiculous indeed.
You can also add Obama's childish assertion that the health care debate over the summer was rigged by the Republican party, even though the furor over the proposals came from the grass roots level. There has not even been a rudimentary attempt at bi-partisanship.
True, but that's a lot in an Election where millions of ballots are cast. 58.8%-40.6% is a huge Landslide, but the other guys had bigger margins: Johnson 61.1%-38.5%, Roosevelt 60.8%-36.5%, Nixon 60.7%-37.5%, Harding 60.3%-34.2%. Even Coolidge's Landslide was more impressive to me, 54.0%-28.8%-16.6%.
gopconservative78 you are a racist. i am a real conservative. you are what stop the coservative movement. a real conservative is not racist. dont call your self a conservative.
Walter Mondale won only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. He won Minnesota by less than 3,000 votes. The electoral count when Mondale won Minnesota and it's 10 electoral votes was 522-3. The Final electoral vote was Reagan 525,
Probably because Washington, DC is just a single city. So the only votes that come from D.C. come from urban areas, which almost always go for Democrats.
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Huge national debt, invasion of Greneda, releasing mental patients to the streets of our cities, ignoring AIDS and HIV, the Iran-Contra scandal. I'm not saying his Presidency was 100% bad, but he definately had some severe faults.
"Traitor" doesn't mean you disagree with one particular President............(even at that I don't completely disagree with Reagan). When you throw that term around, you look like a horses ass, not me. You should play in the sandbox, and leave politics to the adults. I feel bad for you mother.
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Your type of angry fake patriotism, it may have worked between Sept 2001 and March 2003. Nobody takes that kind of nonsense seriously any more, that's why the GOP got mashed up at the poles in back to back years.
gopconservative78 you are a racist. i am a real conservative. you are what stop the coservative movement. a real conservative is not racist. dont call your self a conservative.
@foxh8er he also created 17 million new jobs, brought interest rates from 21% to under 5%, brought inflation, and stagflation under control, oh and gas dropped from 1.50 in 1981 to .89 a gallon in 1989. democrats liked throwing up iran contra because they had nothing to run on, jimmy carter wasa pathetic loser who drove this country into a ditch; kind of like obama is doing now. i remember carter and i also remember reagan. the 80s were the best of times.
They should not of even bothered with covering the '84 election night like a regular election where wither side could win. Reagan was poised to sweep the nation according to almost every poll in the weeks leading up to the GE, and he did.
I am so proud to be a minnesota native! I am so proud Minnesota was couragous enough to vote for democratic even though every other state voted republican! Minnesota was the ONLY state to vote for what was right and voted for Mondale. GO MINNESOTA!
Ok in 1984 I was too young to vote but, I have read about both Mondale and Reagan and I still would have voted for Mondale along with over 37,000,000 other smart Americans who voted for Mondale. I think that people were fooled by Reagan's personality and didn't really pay attention to the issues. I don't think that everyone knew something that I didn't, I just think people were ignorant when they voted.
I am also from Minnesota,and I for one am ashamed that Mondale won our state. The only reason he won it was because he was from Minnesota. Carter/Mondale was the one of the worse times in American history. Even worse then the financial problems we are in right now! America was heading for a second great depression,and Carter had no clue how to fix it. Reagan saved America,and if you can't see that,then you are a blind fool.
You were 6 years old at the time so your "knowledge" of American politics at the time is meaningless. You only know what you've been spooned by other socialist pukes over the years. Maybe one day you'll learn (I hope) to think for yourself.
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I already do think for myself, Reagan wasn't all bad, some of his dealing with the Russians were very crafty and helped win the cold war (but he did not single handedly win it). But he helped shrink the middle class, had the Iran-Contra scandal, blew a hole in the budget, got our boys killed in Lebanon.
Let me guess...you're one of those that believes double digit inflation, double digit unemployment rates, negative GDP growth, and gas rationing are somehow great accomplishments.
Reagan never could have won D.C., thus an electoral sweep was impossible. As did Vermont and Maine when they prevented FDR in 1936 from an electoral sweep. The closest any President has ever gotten, and will ever get, was James Monroe in 1820 when he won all but 1 of 232 electoral votes and each state.
btz2005, Greetings. In fact, I place Reagan along with T. R. & Truman as one of our best three Presidents of the 20th century. Who are your picks for the top 3 Presidents of the 20th?
They agreed to not concede or declare victory before all of the polls closed?? Good grief, Reagan had been re-elected before the polls had even opened.
I cannot believe that they are still leaving it up there uncalled in the beginning at 254-3like Mondale could actually catch up and win. If just 4,000 votes in Minnesota went the other way and DC had not received 3 electoral votes a couple of decades earlier, the Democrats would not of got a single electoral college vote that year.
Yep! It was over at about 5:00 P.M. on the west coast. In 2004, I was just getting home from school at 5, turning on the television to see the early results. I watched for several hours until President Bush finally reached 270+ electoral votes in the late evening here. I just can't get it through my mind that in '84, I would have only watched for a few minutes before it was all over! Heck, Reagan won the Presidency 3 hours before our polls closed in California!
Oh, I was enjoying this! Wish you had more to upload!
leandar 3 months ago
To everyone who were adults during this period:
You all are so lucky to have lived and worked during the heyday of this country. While our social fabric was still somewhat intact, when finding a job wasn't impossible, when Americans were still proud to be Americans and intelligent. You all are blessed unlike my generation.
conned126 5 months ago
@smokes2468 He also won Washington DC
truvianni 6 months ago
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Worst in history.
HalfBornUnicornFetus 1 year ago
smokes2468--
Yes; Mondale did win just one state, and it was his home state of Minnesota; other than that, he only won that and the District of Columbia, for a total of 13 votes; Reagan won the other 49 states for a total of 525 Electoral Votes.
EricEbac22 1 year ago
REAGAN RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nicky6293 1 year ago
@smokes2468 Actually, Mondale only held his home state of Minnesota by about 3,300 votes (if memory serves). He, of course, won the District of Columbia. No Republican has ever taken DC since the first presidential election where they were allowed to vote in 1964. And, I believe it is a sign of the Second Coming if DC ever went Republican.
Porkcfish 1 year ago 5
@smokes2468 It was. VERY sad that we got a blowhard in the White House.
foxh8er 1 year ago
In 2010, for the first time, some voters were allowed to "legally" vote 6 times (yes, that's right, 6 times), in a New York county. The resson the anti-Constitutional judge gave a segment of citizens an un-Constitutional advantage was that they were racially profiled and determined to be "minority" members.
pkpapers 1 year ago 2
there will be a tromping like this again-2012 ! newt!!!!!!!
BillyBlues34 1 year ago
@Shinimegami86 Look up Marxism...the tool by which blacks remain on welfare
molloyboytoy 1 year ago
I don't think that there will ever be a tromping like this ever again.
VendettaStang 1 year ago 2
@VendettaStang an absloute conclosive victory
StFidjnr 1 year ago
@smokes2468 The only State Mondale took was Minnesota, and he only won by 3800 if I remember right.
VendettaStang 1 year ago
@Shinimegami86 Mondale lost because he was too liberal
norr4636 1 year ago
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After Reagan said "I will not exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience", Mondale said, "I already lost the election".
Mage13246 1 year ago 2
@Mage13246 True
norr4636 1 year ago
@norr4636
That's the best part of the debate because even Mondale had class. I mean people can learn from Democrats like Mondale because he knew when he lost the election and he knew he wasn't going to win. He even had a sense of humor, ubnlike today's democrats.
Mage13246 1 year ago 2
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Typo: Unlike
Mage13246 1 year ago
@Shinimegami86 get over it...it was 41 years ago Southern Stategy was a political tool, just like raising taxes, welfare state are the tool for Democrats to keep blacks in poverty. I'm black and I'm over the party of the Welfare State.
norr4636 1 year ago
@Shinimegami86 Yeah...Payroll taxes....not federal taxes
norr4636 1 year ago
Gosh, the media was in a funeral-like mood over the Reagan win! They must have CRIED themselves to sleep that night back in '84!!!
Albanynyer84 2 years ago
I voted for Mondale in the General Election although I voted for Gary Hart in the Indiana Primary that year.
amateurextra58 2 years ago
They should not have called michigan because polls were still open in part of the state.
DONUTBUZZCUT 2 years ago
Ah, those were the days. To actually talk about the possibility of a Republican winning all 50 states. It could very well happen again...in 2012!
chrisman737 2 years ago
With who? Palin? She's a moron. Won't happen. the Republicans are a bunch a fascists who led us to ruin. They are not connected to Reagan at all. Stay in fantasy land, it's better off for the rest of us.
ShawnML2 2 years ago
Well, how about Romney? In terms of the fascists who led us to ruin -- while I disagreed with Bush on the Iraq War and other matters, please remember that Democrats have been in complete control of Congress since 2006, and Barney Frank and his idiotic policy ideas were what contributed to the housing crisis and the disastrous economic downfall. The president may have been Republican at the time, but Democrats controlled most of government. Think about it.
chrisman737 2 years ago
Uh you are half right, but Obama will be the one landsliding you guys again.And deep down inside I think you know it.l But that's ok, keep saying to yourself it wont happen, just like you did about a year ago....
rawn4203 2 years ago
@rawn4203 Landsliding again? He won by 6 % points, a landslide is considered 10 points or better. Reagan won by 20% points in '84. Obama will have a chance to be re-elected again but if the economy is still bad, he will be in a landslide but the other way around; on the losing in of the race. Plus in order to win a landslide you must win in the south, Obama don't have a prayer in the South, so there goes your landslide dream. You may be talking about Electoral College. That don't count
norr4636 2 years ago
Youre a riot. In the steal, oops I mean election, of 2k, you guys didnt even want to talk about the popular vote, it was all about the electoral college and how that should override the popular vote. Funny how you change your tunes like that so fast.
Obama wont win the whole south just like a republican wont ever win the west coast or the northeast. But obama won enough of the south (NC, and the biggest prize there, Florida) to trounce mccain. Obama will get Georgia in 2012 too.
rawn4203 2 years ago
@rawn4203 Well as a black man who worked on the Gore Campaign in 2000 and plus a resident in GA, Obama will lose GA. If he couldn't beat McCain in Ga in 2008, what make you think he will win Ga in 2012. I live in Augusta the only county in Ga Obama won in 2008. I voted for Gore in 2000, but rules states you go by Electoral College. So your statement about "you guys" is incorrect. I did vote for Bush in '04 and McCain in '08. As a college Freshman I voted for Clinton in '96.
norr4636 2 years ago
Well if you live there fine I'll believe it. But I definitely noticed Obama did significantly better there than Kerry. That is a trend.
Now, I live in AZ and Obama is definitely targeting this state, as evidenced by his multiple visits here this year. Even with Mccain being from here, Obama lost it by a respectable 45-54. Funny how Mccain said during the election "im from the southwest, vote for me". And the only sw states he won were AZ and mindless Utah.
rawn4203 2 years ago
@rawn4203 well you are correct, McCain was a weak, weak weak Candidate. I am a pragmatic Independent Conservative. I left the dem party because I felt like the Dems take the black voted for granted. Mondale won the black vote in '84 and lost every single demographic held historically by democrats: Women, ages 18-24, 60 years old and older and farmers, Union workers. How in the HELL did he win the black vote? Because we have been told to vote dem because they care about us.
norr4636 2 years ago 3
@rawn4203 well we followed after that with Michael Dikacus(misspell) and in '88 we lost again to Bush, Sr. Michael lost every group like Mondale and won the black vote, We as blacks never think outside of the box like other Democratic voters. Women and older people voted for Reagan and Bush because they saw Mondale as a joke when he proclaimed I will RAISE YOU TAXES WITH A SMILE...WHAT AN IDIOT. No wonder he lost 49 states.
norr4636 2 years ago 3
@rawn4203 Obama di win another county in Ga...near Savannah and in Atlanta. The rest of the state all RED.
norr4636 2 years ago
after 4 years of carter there was no way that the people were going to vote for his vice president.
okrabay 2 years ago 2
Which is precisely why Cheney didnt run in '08.
Too bad the republicans still put up a bush clone though. They might have made it half interesting had they not.
rawn4203 2 years ago
Ron Paul told the truth like no one before. And the idiots paid no attention. ( or they rigged the vote).
okrabay 2 years ago
After seeing what Reagan did in his first term, I voted for Mondale in '84 -- and afterward I switched from being a Republican to a Democrat. Have been ever since!
marcostar57 2 years ago
Good for you! Iran Contra and giving us a VP who would say "read my lips, no new taxes"..........Fuggin bullshit.
rawn4203 2 years ago
Yeah! And the guy who promised to get us out of Iraq and to win the war in Afghanistan and give us a true bi-partisan spirit in Washington -- that was was all bull. Hey, wait a second. That's Obama! Hmmm. Seems like there is a lot of bull to go around, eh?
chrisman737 2 years ago
If you can show me a video of Obama saying he'd have the 2 bush messes in Iraq and Afganistan all cleaned up by October of 2009, I will give you million bucks. Bi-partisan - what part of keeping robert gates as sec of defense and nominating sonia sotomayor (a bush41 appellate court appointee) do you have trouble comprehending?
rawn4203 2 years ago
He never gave an exact date for withdrawal from Iraq or winning the war in Afghanistan -- I suppose we will just have to have "faith" in this inexperienced junior senator then, huh? Sotomayor is rabidly pro-abortion. Gates is kept on to maintain a little continuity. Hardly bi-partisan, especially with the rest of the administration purely democratic and both houses of Congress in the Democrat stranglehold since 2006. No bi-partisanship there.
chrisman737 2 years ago
Also you can add the idiotic and childish way the Democratic Congress tried to ram through a massively expensive health care initiative before the recess, the current re-writing (behind closed doors) of the bills until nothing the Republicans proposed remains in them, and Obama's ludicrous assertion of bi-partisanship when there was a SINGLE Republican vote in favor of his health care initiative. Ridiculous.
chrisman737 2 years ago
Sounds like the republicans dont mind it when the dems go along with their ideas (iraq, afganistan anybody??) yet when dems propose ideas, the republicans just want to take their ball and go home. Yes, very ridiculous indeed.
rawn4203 2 years ago
You can also add Obama's childish assertion that the health care debate over the summer was rigged by the Republican party, even though the furor over the proposals came from the grass roots level. There has not even been a rudimentary attempt at bi-partisanship.
chrisman737 2 years ago
Smart cookie.
CommissionerBele 2 years ago
God bless Ronald Reagan. A wonderful night for the world.
bdgop 2 years ago 5
terrible night
backinblackk1980 2 years ago
True, but that's a lot in an Election where millions of ballots are cast. 58.8%-40.6% is a huge Landslide, but the other guys had bigger margins: Johnson 61.1%-38.5%, Roosevelt 60.8%-36.5%, Nixon 60.7%-37.5%, Harding 60.3%-34.2%. Even Coolidge's Landslide was more impressive to me, 54.0%-28.8%-16.6%.
MIKESOWELL 2 years ago
HOW MUCH MORE MISERABLE CAN THE MEDIA ELITE BE?!?! REAGAN WINS AND THEY WERE VERY DISMISSIVE. No shock.
Albanynyer84 2 years ago
gopconservative78 you are a racist. i am a real conservative. you are what stop the coservative movement. a real conservative is not racist. dont call your self a conservative.
SuperJoeHaslitt01 2 years ago
GopConservative78 you are the epitome of what keeps Conservative Blacks out of the Republican Party.
MIKESOWELL 3 years ago 2
He won 58.8 percent. Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon and Harding had larger shares of the Popular vote in their Landslide Elections.
MIKESOWELL 3 years ago
58.8 is only a few points away from the 61% that Johnson, Roosevelt, Nixon and Harding had.
bjoh249 2 years ago
wow he destroyed mondale.
the election was over with 6 percent in. I think he won 60 percent of the vote.
there will never be another election like this. Never.
Monty1994 3 years ago
At least McCain got over 20 states and over 170EVs lol
ChiTownGuyIndy 3 years ago 2
Walter Mondale won only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. He won Minnesota by less than 3,000 votes. The electoral count when Mondale won Minnesota and it's 10 electoral votes was 522-3. The Final electoral vote was Reagan 525,
Mondale 13.
conlanding 3 years ago 3
I'm still trying to figure out how he won DC.
belltownboy2012 3 years ago
Probably because Washington, DC is just a single city. So the only votes that come from D.C. come from urban areas, which almost always go for Democrats.
tjoceasde 3 years ago
DC has always been Democratic.
conlanding 3 years ago 2
Ronald W. Reagan was an excellent president.
jamesspencerjackson 3 years ago 27
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Huge national debt, invasion of Greneda, releasing mental patients to the streets of our cities, ignoring AIDS and HIV, the Iran-Contra scandal. I'm not saying his Presidency was 100% bad, but he definately had some severe faults.
bigfilmhat 3 years ago
You are a traitor then and should be rounded up and sent to Gitmo
gopconservative78 3 years ago
"Traitor" doesn't mean you disagree with one particular President............(even at that I don't completely disagree with Reagan). When you throw that term around, you look like a horses ass, not me. You should play in the sandbox, and leave politics to the adults. I feel bad for you mother.
bigfilmhat 3 years ago
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Your type of angry fake patriotism, it may have worked between Sept 2001 and March 2003. Nobody takes that kind of nonsense seriously any more, that's why the GOP got mashed up at the poles in back to back years.
bigfilmhat 3 years ago
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Now we are stuck with the Nigger in the White House
gopconservative78 3 years ago
I know. After all, I voted him in and phone banked to get him in.
bigfilmhat 3 years ago
You sound like a total idiot.
snoops71 3 years ago
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gopconservative78 you are a racist. i am a real conservative. you are what stop the coservative movement. a real conservative is not racist. dont call your self a conservative.
SuperJoeHaslitt01 2 years ago
@jamesspencerjackson HE LED US ASTRAY! HE LED US INTO DEBT AND DEFECIT! And do I even NEED to talk about Iran contra?
foxh8er 1 year ago
@foxh8er he also created 17 million new jobs, brought interest rates from 21% to under 5%, brought inflation, and stagflation under control, oh and gas dropped from 1.50 in 1981 to .89 a gallon in 1989. democrats liked throwing up iran contra because they had nothing to run on, jimmy carter wasa pathetic loser who drove this country into a ditch; kind of like obama is doing now. i remember carter and i also remember reagan. the 80s were the best of times.
BillyBlues34 6 months ago
i remember watching this
tmsan74 3 years ago
Why does Jennings have that wierd lil pansy pinkie ring? lol
Nesser480 3 years ago
It's fun seeing this old footage. I was four years old at the time.
tygersflowerz 3 years ago 2
Michigan for Reagan: Yeah!!
gurney50 3 years ago 2
They should not of even bothered with covering the '84 election night like a regular election where wither side could win. Reagan was poised to sweep the nation according to almost every poll in the weeks leading up to the GE, and he did.
bjoh249 3 years ago
I am so proud to be a minnesota native! I am so proud Minnesota was couragous enough to vote for democratic even though every other state voted republican! Minnesota was the ONLY state to vote for what was right and voted for Mondale. GO MINNESOTA!
sral187 3 years ago
Actually, your state was within 4,000 votes of going to Reagan. You ruined a clean sweep. Maybe everyone else knew something you didn't?
tigerbandalumni 3 years ago
Ok in 1984 I was too young to vote but, I have read about both Mondale and Reagan and I still would have voted for Mondale along with over 37,000,000 other smart Americans who voted for Mondale. I think that people were fooled by Reagan's personality and didn't really pay attention to the issues. I don't think that everyone knew something that I didn't, I just think people were ignorant when they voted.
sral187 3 years ago
I am also from Minnesota,and I for one am ashamed that Mondale won our state. The only reason he won it was because he was from Minnesota. Carter/Mondale was the one of the worse times in American history. Even worse then the financial problems we are in right now! America was heading for a second great depression,and Carter had no clue how to fix it. Reagan saved America,and if you can't see that,then you are a blind fool.
ipunchcats 3 years ago
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Kudos to Minnesota for not voting for that foolish clown either time. One day, maybe you might (I hope) come to understand the United States.
bigfilmhat 3 years ago
You were 6 years old at the time so your "knowledge" of American politics at the time is meaningless. You only know what you've been spooned by other socialist pukes over the years. Maybe one day you'll learn (I hope) to think for yourself.
ipunchcats 3 years ago 6
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I already do think for myself, Reagan wasn't all bad, some of his dealing with the Russians were very crafty and helped win the cold war (but he did not single handedly win it). But he helped shrink the middle class, had the Iran-Contra scandal, blew a hole in the budget, got our boys killed in Lebanon.
bigfilmhat 3 years ago
Let me guess...you're one of those that believes double digit inflation, double digit unemployment rates, negative GDP growth, and gas rationing are somehow great accomplishments.
floydefisher 3 years ago
Reagan never could have won D.C., thus no total sweep was possible, nor will any Republican in the near future will win as well.
Jonathan6561 3 years ago
no democrat could sweet either.
no candidate will ever be able to sweep america
EmersonLeMay84 3 years ago
Reagan never could have won D.C., thus an electoral sweep was impossible. As did Vermont and Maine when they prevented FDR in 1936 from an electoral sweep. The closest any President has ever gotten, and will ever get, was James Monroe in 1820 when he won all but 1 of 232 electoral votes and each state.
Jonathan6561 3 years ago
what ever
brnsimpson 3 years ago
Minnesota was Mondale's home state.
ReuWil 3 years ago 2
sral187, get off this board you loser!!
bjoh249 3 years ago
REAGAN '08 !!
RosalitaBU8 3 years ago 3
I agree, go Regan revolution!!
btz2005 3 years ago
btz2005, Greetings. In fact, I place Reagan along with T. R. & Truman as one of our best three Presidents of the 20th century. Who are your picks for the top 3 Presidents of the 20th?
RosalitaBU8 3 years ago 2
They agreed to not concede or declare victory before all of the polls closed?? Good grief, Reagan had been re-elected before the polls had even opened.
RyanJohnson03 3 years ago 2
I cannot believe that they are still leaving it up there uncalled in the beginning at 254-3like Mondale could actually catch up and win. If just 4,000 votes in Minnesota went the other way and DC had not received 3 electoral votes a couple of decades earlier, the Democrats would not of got a single electoral college vote that year.
RyanJohnson03 3 years ago 2
That was ownage right there! It was over at 8:00.
jlcochran 3 years ago 4
Yep! It was over at about 5:00 P.M. on the west coast. In 2004, I was just getting home from school at 5, turning on the television to see the early results. I watched for several hours until President Bush finally reached 270+ electoral votes in the late evening here. I just can't get it through my mind that in '84, I would have only watched for a few minutes before it was all over! Heck, Reagan won the Presidency 3 hours before our polls closed in California!
yyyhenry 3 years ago 4
Reagan got 49 out of 50 states. He was only 4,000 votes away from getting all 50.
bjoh249 3 years ago 7
Mondale got owned and jack up by Reagan in 1984!!!!!!!!
greg2009 3 years ago 8
This guy looks like the guy who played James Baker in the movie Recount.
Calsonic66 3 years ago 2
Reagan lost MN by 4,000 votes
gaguy1967 4 years ago
MN is a really weird voting state. WTF would you not choose Reagan?
rpg37 3 years ago 4
You don't suppose the fact MN was Mondale's home state and is ultra-liberal might have something to do with that, do you?
acb06172005 3 years ago 5
Right, like how Gore lost TN in 2k....oops!
rawn4203 2 years ago
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OBAMA '08
Christoffeltje 4 years ago
Obama is for change.
We can change from presidents with experience to presidents with no experience.
iloveconsistency 4 years ago 2
After all Dick Cheney's experience sho' did come in handy, didn't it Karl?
MJJLWolf 3 years ago 2
Luckily we don't apply that kind of logic to other endeavors:
"Gee, that last School Superintendent had a lot of experience. We should probably hire someone with less experience this next time."
Maybe you're right. Maybe a president with no experience should be just the ticket.
iloveconsistency 3 years ago
"that kind of logic"
Oh, SSSSSNAP!
TylerNull 3 years ago
How stupid of comment was that? If we elect someone with no experience, our country will be really screwed.
efan64 3 years ago
Yeah!!
gurney50 3 years ago 3
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James Baker ate my balls.
chonk1995 4 years ago
very politically philosophical
beaverpitt 4 years ago 3