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Election Night '84 - 10:18
10:18
Very big news at the moment for the president: we are moving the state of New York and its 36 big electoral votes into his column. New York, the Empire State, goes to President Anderson. In equally important news, at least if you live in South Dakota, we’re also calling South Dakota for the president.
Anderson: 91
Buckley: 57
Lamm: 89
In some ways South Dakota is the more intriguing result, here. New York is a big prize, but we all know how he won. He and the other candidates went out and pounded the pavement and held rallies and spent money and fought a hard campaign, and Anderson pulled it off. But in a sparsely populated state like South Dakota it’s all about messaging. And I think Anderson’s win is intriguing. We know they like his support for farmers, but we’ve found that his style also plays very well in the Midwest. That combination of common sense and Christian charity seems to be very popular there, and this is one of the only regions in the country where the president is noticeably more popular than the Republican Party at-large.
Not to interrupt you, Roger, but we have a few more states to call at this time, one for each candidate, in fact. The state of Colorado has gone for Governor Lamm, and he can breath a sigh of relief now, knowing that he’s won his home state- the only one of our three candidates to do that so far tonight, both Illinois and strangely Connecticut still too close to call. But Anderson can also breath a sigh of relief in that it looks like he’s going to win Utah relatively easily. There was some concern given how traditionally conservative the Mormon population is in Utah. But perhaps more than ideology, the state has long been associated with the Republican Party, and it looks like those bonds of loyalty remained intact tonight. Finally, the state of Montana goes to Senator Buckley, and along with Wyoming, which we called earlier, and some might say also Oklahoma, the Conservative Party puts its mark on the West. The current tally stands at 96 electoral votes for President Anderson, 97 for Governor Lamm, and 61 for Senator Buckley.
Anderson: 96
Buckley: 61
Lamm: 97
“Do we dare?”
“The writing’s on the wall at this point, this is as close to a mathematical certainty as we’re gonna get. And add South Dakota while you’re at it.”
“The writing’s on the wall at this point, this is as close to a mathematical certainty as we’re gonna get. And add South Dakota while you’re at it.”
Very big news at the moment for the president: we are moving the state of New York and its 36 big electoral votes into his column. New York, the Empire State, goes to President Anderson. In equally important news, at least if you live in South Dakota, we’re also calling South Dakota for the president.
Anderson: 91
Buckley: 57
Lamm: 89
In some ways South Dakota is the more intriguing result, here. New York is a big prize, but we all know how he won. He and the other candidates went out and pounded the pavement and held rallies and spent money and fought a hard campaign, and Anderson pulled it off. But in a sparsely populated state like South Dakota it’s all about messaging. And I think Anderson’s win is intriguing. We know they like his support for farmers, but we’ve found that his style also plays very well in the Midwest. That combination of common sense and Christian charity seems to be very popular there, and this is one of the only regions in the country where the president is noticeably more popular than the Republican Party at-large.
Not to interrupt you, Roger, but we have a few more states to call at this time, one for each candidate, in fact. The state of Colorado has gone for Governor Lamm, and he can breath a sigh of relief now, knowing that he’s won his home state- the only one of our three candidates to do that so far tonight, both Illinois and strangely Connecticut still too close to call. But Anderson can also breath a sigh of relief in that it looks like he’s going to win Utah relatively easily. There was some concern given how traditionally conservative the Mormon population is in Utah. But perhaps more than ideology, the state has long been associated with the Republican Party, and it looks like those bonds of loyalty remained intact tonight. Finally, the state of Montana goes to Senator Buckley, and along with Wyoming, which we called earlier, and some might say also Oklahoma, the Conservative Party puts its mark on the West. The current tally stands at 96 electoral votes for President Anderson, 97 for Governor Lamm, and 61 for Senator Buckley.
Anderson: 96
Buckley: 61
Lamm: 97
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