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Election Night '84 - 11:12
11:12

And folks this is why we want to check everything twice and make sure we’ve got as much data as we need. Earlier in the evening we briefly called Pennsylvania for Governor Lamm. Now it looks as if it’s actually swung towards the president, and we are ready to call it for President Anderson at this time. It looks like the Conservative Party did significantly better than expected in rural Pennsylvania, siphoning votes that were previously Democratic, while the Republicans have over-performed among minorities and suburbanites. And so in the end, Anderson takes Pennsylvania.


Anderson: 153
Buckley: 65
Lamm: 135

One thing that does, Tom, is that it makes it now mathematically impossible for James Buckley to win the presidency. He could run the table from this moment on and there simply aren’t enough electoral votes left to reach 270. The other two candidates are still very much in it, with the possibility of the whole thing being thrown to the House of Representatives still very much on the table.

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