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And to the rest of you don't worry, the complaints carried on after the results were in too!

They don't care. They just love to gloat about how they won and they want to believe that NBC is too butthurt about Trump winning to show it.

@@MichaelShrute-wt9cu My good man I think you have misinterpreted my response. I meant the trump people were complaining! As soon as fox called arizona ahead of the others I was sipping champagne and laughing

Yep, that was about the time that HDTV started to take off.

I'd say more between 2008 and 2012

@@diogodavid3557 yeah

2008-2012

Mrs Rose Maria is legit and her method works like magic I keep on earning every single week with her new strategy

[ Rachel Maddow sighs ] "You're awake by the way... "

@@jonathantan2469 😂😂😂

I agree they were kinda unfair. But I'm still going to tell a story that I just remembered that's kinda messed up: I was about 6 when Ford died and my principal went on the loud speaker and gave a moment of silence for him. The thing is the entire time she was sobbing on the loud speaker throughout it and my friend told me his entire class (including his teacher) broke the moment of silence because the couldn't hold in their laughter (It's also worth noting that the majority of the school didn't like her).

@@andrewsutherland133 LOL

Fun fact: All presidential and vice presidential candidates all were their party’s nominee and all lost presidential elections. Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were the ones.

Lol

Nixon couldn't even carry his home state. They knew how crooked he was

@houseofleaves12 first election too he wasn't Nixon running mate he became VP when spyro Agnew resigned

@@adiossoydaniel Spiro Agnew*

He wasn't elected President , he was Vice President when Nixon Resigned. He wasn't elected VP Either , he got the position when Spiro Agnew resigned.

It's a misleading line - Ford had won congressional races before, and he made it to House Minority Leader before he was tapped as replacement VP.

Like I said, NBC never archived their 1956 election coverage, which was anchored by Bill Henry with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley.

Phil P It was called for Kennedy initially.

absentee ballots came in later that said Cali went to Nixon about a week later.

I believe Nixon won Illinois and California.

No Illinois was Kennedy in 60, both Illinois and Texas was basically why Kennedy won over Nixon.

Ohio, Virginia and Florida went for Nixon.

That was a time before they were fed information via earpieces and teleprompters. Often they were reading the copy for the first time, live on air.

Different technology at the time. We live in an era of technological luxury.

the media actually does not call elections, though. If the New York Times says that Mr. Seemore is president elect but actually when the votes are tallied Mr. smigdledorf is president elect, well I'm sorry

@@achannel6664 Mr smigledorf didn't seem to complain in 2016 when he was named president-elect by the media

@@emperorvaIens well at that point the election was over. When you have contested results in states that would completely make or break a specific candidate's path to victory, you can't claim one has already won.

@@achannel6664 Just because the results are being contested, does not mean that they are in question. Biden has won by margins in the thousands in these 'contested' states. Any lawsuit would have to have very strong evidence in order to dismiss thousands of votes, and as of now the evidence does not seem very strong considering the man is having his cases thrown out over and over again.

@@emperorvaIens having a bad judge on a bad day doesn't mean crap, especially when you have plenty of evidence, that they have already explained is there and what is consists of. And yes, they have evidence of fraud in the thousands in Pennslyvania, Michigan, and Nevada. those 3 states alone would net Trump a big 42 electoral vote. Adding that to his current total is a grand 271 electoral votes, with alaska yet to be called, and a potential flip in Arizona. Along with this, Wisconsin and Georgia having recounts which could sway the results considering their margins are less than 20,000 and 10,000 respectively, and they used the dominion voting machines which have provided errors in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennslyvania aleady, which have had margins in the thousands. This election is easily winnable by either candidate at this point. But yes, if you want to call states with recounts and legal challenges not resolved yet, than Biden is president elect.

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Mateus Borges what’s wrong?

@@chip599XX_VGRLeader Please watch this documentary. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XPqzyfYLnQQ.html

Mateus Borges what is this?

@@chip599XX_VGRLeader It is a Brazilian documentary about the geopolitical change and the attack that the United States has been suffering in its culture.

Nixon didn’t win California till a week later after counting the absentee ballots

@@warrenrhinerson6373 and it’s funny how democrats didn’t immediately claim fraud

@@blackbox3008 ironic isn’t it

@@warrenrhinerson6373 its almost like those votes actually mattered, even if they were for Nixon

It wouldn't have mattered since Kennedy won. Interestingly though Nixon has claim fraud in Illinois and Texas, states he narrowly lost

2000 still the 1st place

@@k_np04 January 6 would say otherwise

@@DawgPoundEnjoyer not so far behind those two would be a couple of a million distraught women protesters contesting 2016 outcome at the Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 "women's march", lol.

Neither of them hold a candle to 1860...

​@@DawgPoundEnjoyer And the overall political division is far worse than 2000, and will continue to get worse.

Yeah, Tom Brokaw wow was great at his work. Notice after the 1996 election his speech slows down more compared to 84 and 88

We demanded less and we got what we deserved

Eh. If you watch some of the election broadcasts from the 80s, they were waaaaay more blunt on who was going to win.

In Europe it's reversed lol

@The Changer in Europe, normally the left wing party is red and the right wing party is blue

@The Changer honestly don't know

@@calweir6190 the Red / Blue designation only has been around for twenty years in the U.S., believe it or not. The parties themselves did not have official colors but the networks started using the current scheme during the very drawn/out Bush v. Gore. Also, Europeans have long used red to designate workers’ parties, but really, neither major party here is a “worker’s party”, probably due to the strange histories of the parties that are based more on region and twisting, turning relationships to both the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement 100 years later.

@@miz_logo_lee thanks

That amazing that in over 60 years, CBS only had 4 Chief Anchors to call the Presidential elections. Now for the 1st time in 2020 for CBS having Co-Anchors (and the first time 2 ladies will be the lead Commentators as far as I am aware on the original big 3)with Noah O' Donnell and Gayle King.

They were right though

He did win tho

Yeah he did win the popular vote and technically won the election, it is just that the election was completely messed up due to the electoral college and the "hanging chad" situation. I guess it is similar to Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump where Hillary Clinton did technically win the popular vote but not the electoral college.

@@KrishnaDasLessons no, gore won the popular vote by 500k, Hillary did by 3 million

They were right. They called Al because Al won the popular vote, that's what News Networks do, they call the popular vote.

Skipsenter I believe it's the Mission Theme by John Williams.

RideFreestyleOhio thanks so much!

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Do you even understand how long that election took 2020 is nothing George bush won by 5 electoral votes joe Biden won by like 40 or something

@@thebeastofamericaa6720 i mean the "bitterly contested election" part

@@thebeastofamericaa6720 Actually Bush won with 271 votes. 270 is needed to win. If he had gotten 2 less electoral votes he would have lost

Actually no mistakes happened. Absentee ballots put nixon over the top. Kennedy did win on election night.

Trump did too. I think JFK as well.

This election might turn out like this as well.

@@n64wilbert it took till 3 am? Not that long

Actually 1980 the studios in 1980 and 1984 were of the same tech. The 90s is when things radically changed and still remain the same to this day pretty much

Can’t wait until they add 2020🤩

They were following the international standard for party colors Left leaning parties = Red Right leaning parties = Blue

They wouldn't and that also doesn't make sense ya bozo.

Will McAvoy in The Newsroom uses the same line in the episode where they cover the 2012 election

So basically every year they changed the color red for dems one year and red for republicans the next year. They kept Red for rep and blue for Dems after i believe the Gore Bush 2000 election.

Everywhere else in the world, left wing parties carry the colour of red whereas right wing parties use blue. Only in USA now its the opposite.

@@VANssaZOOlema That is what I heard as well. They would alternate different years for different parties (and maybe each station had their own) but because 2000 went on for 33 days it cemented the red and blue concept. I was surprised when I hear that because that is the first election I remember (I was 10) and I did not know that is where the concept came from.

You waited for three years. I'm gonna give you your first like. Have a nice day!

Agreed! It was a rollercoaster. But back then Americans were not that divided ideologically

It's even worse when it's called as the state that put kennedy over 269 electoral votes (this was after Hawaii/Alaska gained statehood but before DC got electoral votes, so there were 537 total instead of 538)

abcbatman1966 Nixon didn’t win California till a week later when absentee ballots were counted.

So heartbreaking truly. He died at 93.

I agree

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He said it was the first election that ford lost

YOU are fake news, 09rja. and your ears stink.

Well, it was his first Presidential election, and he very nearly lost the nomination to Reagan that year. Reagan was easily nominated in 1980, and would win landslides that year and '84 in the general election.

Sjchxh Triskit the colors were switched back then so Massachusetts was Democratic and Texas was Republican. Not that crazy

At that time the republicans were blue and democrats were red

Not really. Their current governor, Charlie Baker, is a Republican, and they elected Scott Brown to the Senate only ten years ago. Sure, they're both moderate Republicans, but a moderate Republican is still a Republican.

HotWax93 Well that’s irrelevant as well. Maryland has a Republican governor right now too, and too my knowledge Cali did within the past 10 years. By most blue state in the country I mean by vote registration Edit: and I was wrongish anyways bc the colors were flipped back then

lol. Definitely not.

They would have been connected to a mainframe located within the building or perhaps exclusive to the news department. So they would have been connected to an intranet at most. The World Wide Web, the internet as most people know it, wasn't available yet.

Calling Florida before the polls closed in the panhandle was really stupid..

@@zombieguyproducion To be honest, having a state occupy two time zones is really stupid to begin with.

@@pigs18 Honestly Just put the Fla. Panhandle into the East Coast Time zone. Problem solved.

@@zombieguyproducion Actually the polls in Fla was closed. I think almost all of the networks and Cable News Channels called the Gore Fla. Victory around (correct me if wrong)around 11pm ET. So the only open polls would have been in Alaska and Hawaii.

@@americangiant1003 Atleast CNN called it at around 7:50 EST. The election night is up on YT if you want to check for yourself. You might be confusing it with some networks calling the state for Bush (and later retracting) which happened later on. Voting in the panhandle was STILL going on at the point they called it for Gore.

Republicans were Blue and Democrats were Red because of the traditional colors associated with the Union and Confederacy in the Civil War. The media flipped them in the 90s to draw attention away from Democrats being the party of the Confederacy. Kind of clever actually...

@@HeroicAge616 Wrong. Republicans were blue because of the Union, that's right. But the red stood for the left-wing. Basically every other left party in the world is red. NBC chose the colors because in Great Britain, Conservatives are blue and Labour Party is red.

@@HeroicAge616 Blue is the traditional color for conservatism, traditionalism, and monarchism. Many center-right political parties throughout the world use blue as their color. Red/Pink is the color for left-wing political parties like social democrats, democratic socialist, socialist, or communist political parties.

@@HeroicAge616 First, the universal adoption of red for Republican and blue for Democrat actually began in 2000 with the Bush vs. Gore presidential election. Before that, those colors were sometimes used (usually by CBS or ABC), but NBC typically used the opposite, as shown here. It's more likely the media didn't want to associate red, the color of communism, with Democrats, whose policies are often accused of being socialist (and in recent years, some Dems have embraced the label.) Also, the Confederates wore gray during the Civil War, not red. But you're correct that the left has been trying to draw attention away from Democrats' history as the party of the Confederacy in map coloring--but it's usually in the colors of Civil War maps. Most show the Union in blue and the Confederacy in red, because left-wing historians know that people associate red with the GOP. By doing this, they can depict Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln and the Union, as the party of racist neo-Confederate hicks. Coloring the Union states blue makes sense since they wore blue uniforms, but by that logic the Confederate states should be colored gray.

It's also highly misleading. Many states that support one party for president often vote for the other in down-ballot elections. During the 2004 presidential election, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wyoming all had Democratic governors, while the governors of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont were all Republicans. Both of North Dakota's senators were Democrats at the time. Going into this November's election, Kansas and Kentucky both have Democratic governors while Maryland, Massachusetts, and Vermont all have GOP governors. Montana has both a Democratic governor and one Democrat in the Senate. Arizona has its first Democratic Senator in nearly a quarter century and the Democratic Senate candidate there this year will likely pick up the remaining seat. So in reality, there aren't really red or blue states, just different shades of purple.

What's missing? Ah '56

CNN's bias has become even more blatant in recent years.

@@vikinglothar I would've liked to see it.

I thought it was lost/erased.

That's what the international colors are for right wing and left wing parties...