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Election Night '84 - 10:08
10:08
It’s after 10 PM here in New York and we’ve been holding back several results just to verify our numbers in the wake of some earlier missteps. But we’re now ready to make a number of important projections. The state of New Jersey will go to President Anderson, as will the state of Maryland. In good news for Governor Lamm, he has taken North Carolina, Tennessee, and very crucially Michigan. That’s a big industrial state win for Lamm, and he’s made a definite Democratic mark on the South, proving that the reports of the party's death there are premature, and stopping a total rout in the region by Mr. Buckley.
This is a significant haul for the governor from Colorado and could point to a possible path to victory tonight. If his attempted fusion of rural populism and labor activism have really taken hold with the electorate, that gives him a broad swath of states to play with.
Yes, as the evening goes by we'll be keeping a close eye on those two states we've pulled back- Pennsylvania and Ohio. There's still a good chance they'll break for Lamm, but of course we have a duty to be sure of our projections. And moving west we'll be looking at Missouri and Iowa, and I'm also curious to see how he plays in the Southwest. That could be an interesting dynamic.
I recall in the past few days we had some interesting interviews coming out of Arizona and rural southern California, where Lamm was doing well with a motley crew of agricultural laborers and also what we perhaps might call a more..."nativist" set of voters.
That's right, Tom, there's some circumstantial evidence that confusion over Lamm's immigration policy may have actually helped him with so-called low-information voters, who read into it what they want to see. But time will tell on that one.
Anderson: 52
Buckley: 57
Lamm: 89
This is also good news for the president, Tom, in Maryland and New Jersey. He appears to be doing very well with those new homeowners in the big metro areas, and based on exit polling his vote total with minorities is at least matching, if not exceeding expectations.
It’s after 10 PM here in New York and we’ve been holding back several results just to verify our numbers in the wake of some earlier missteps. But we’re now ready to make a number of important projections. The state of New Jersey will go to President Anderson, as will the state of Maryland. In good news for Governor Lamm, he has taken North Carolina, Tennessee, and very crucially Michigan. That’s a big industrial state win for Lamm, and he’s made a definite Democratic mark on the South, proving that the reports of the party's death there are premature, and stopping a total rout in the region by Mr. Buckley.
This is a significant haul for the governor from Colorado and could point to a possible path to victory tonight. If his attempted fusion of rural populism and labor activism have really taken hold with the electorate, that gives him a broad swath of states to play with.
Yes, as the evening goes by we'll be keeping a close eye on those two states we've pulled back- Pennsylvania and Ohio. There's still a good chance they'll break for Lamm, but of course we have a duty to be sure of our projections. And moving west we'll be looking at Missouri and Iowa, and I'm also curious to see how he plays in the Southwest. That could be an interesting dynamic.
I recall in the past few days we had some interesting interviews coming out of Arizona and rural southern California, where Lamm was doing well with a motley crew of agricultural laborers and also what we perhaps might call a more..."nativist" set of voters.
That's right, Tom, there's some circumstantial evidence that confusion over Lamm's immigration policy may have actually helped him with so-called low-information voters, who read into it what they want to see. But time will tell on that one.
Anderson: 52
Buckley: 57
Lamm: 89
This is also good news for the president, Tom, in Maryland and New Jersey. He appears to be doing very well with those new homeowners in the big metro areas, and based on exit polling his vote total with minorities is at least matching, if not exceeding expectations.
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