Election Night 1972 Coverage CBS News  

its funny watching Leslie Nielsen not trying to be funny.

Yeah before airplane when he was so serious

"I just want to tell you good luck, we're all counting on you"

better luck next time. Take Mondale and the points.

Yes, McGovern did get his ass whooped when all was set and done; in 1972, Richard Nixon won 520 electoral votes, compared to 17 for George McGovern and one for John Hospers. Had it not been for the burglary at the Watergate (and the subsequent cover-up that started about a week after), Nixon probably would have won all 50 states leaving McGovern with just DC--if McGovern would have even carried that--and John Hospers the one vote in Virginia (if he--Hospers--even won that).

EricEbac22 And had the election been held one year later, McGovern most likely would have beaten Nixon.

RollOnToVictory I'm way ahead of you buddy. Got the house bet on Mondale in the '84 election, a sure winner....DAMNNNNNNNN!

RollOnToVictory Yeah, well that didn't go any better. Still, I'm pretty confident with Dukakis and the points in '88, can't lose........DAMN!!!!!!!

Florida 2000 really hurt their confidence. 2004 Bush should have been called earlier but they wanted to drag it out. More election coverage = more ad revenue

What commercial are you talking about?

+Observer Guy I don't know if there is any election night coverage from 1964 anywhere on RU-vid, DailyMotion, or any other video-based website.

Adam Roth I don't think that Truman is seen in a negative light anymore. People usually see him in the above average or even near great rankings in recent years.

+HRTVFan2 What happened to Roger Mudd?

EricEbac22 After leaving NBC, Mudd joined PBS from 1987-92 as a political correspondent for the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour while also serving as a visiting professor at Princeton and Washington and Lee, and his most recent role was as a regular for documentaries on the History Channel until his retirement in 2004

I don't remember that commercial with Leslie Nielsen in it. Back then he usually played heavies and crooks, far removed from his second time around in Naked Gun and other funny stuff.

At least Ford was still building real automobiles in 1972 before the dark ages of American cars started in the mid 1970s. Pre-1974 Fords were solid pieces of machinery.

Ford held on to their big cars a couple years longer than GM, the last of the biggies came in 1978 (1979 for Lincolns) I have mostly trucks now & feel well protected from these red light and stop sign runners that are all too common out here.

It happened in the 2000 election and has remained that way ever since. Before then, there was no set color coordination and news organizations flipped back and forth.

+Mr. Hissing Cockroach Yep, live until 1987.....died at age 100.

MICHAEL SOWELL Long time.

His death was reported on a Monday night when ALF was on the air!

Yeah for quite a few years after. Landon died in 1987, he was 99.

oops, 100 sorry

Nixon ended LBJ's Vietnam Draft reducing American casualties in Vietnam every month he was in office, got China to switch sides in our Cold War with Russia, and put the first man on the Moon winning the Space Race along with creating Affirmative Action ending the 1960's urban race riots. McGovern picked a psychiatric patient for his first Vice Presidential choice and as Reagan pointed out about the People's Temple mass suicide cult in the 1980's election "They were all Democrats."

EricEbac22 That is Leslie Nielsen.

+DurkMcGerk Never heard of him.

EricEbac22 Surely you must be joking.

+DurkMcGerk I surely wish I was, but in all reality, I'm not.

So you're saying I can call you Shirley?

I was only 6yrs old and i remember what you're talking about. Inflation, long gas lines, gas prices going up. I even remember Watergate because it was on TV every single night.

+lore bore Was this an election to Congress (the House of Representatives, that is) or to the U.S. Senate?

+EricEbac22 senate

There were 50 states in 1972

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Richard Oranger Not a left winger for the time but you are right tho by today's standards..Then again,JFK would be a right winger by today's standards..He cut corporate taxes and believed in a strong military.

+Richard Oranger Nixon lived in a time where the democratic party was still the majority party and we were still in an era where liberals were leaders in prominent offices throughout the country. If Nixon had come to power in 1980 instead of 1968, his administration would have proposed much more conservative policies than they had in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

MICHAEL SOWELL Agreed.

Nixon consciously played to the middle of the Road "Silent Majority" that voted for LBJ instead of Barry Goldwater in 1964 by a similar landslide and was a large part of the reason a lot of conservative Democrats made the switch to Republican in the 1980's after the George McGovern radical left took over the Democratic Party after the Chicago Democratic Convention Riots in 1968 with an agenda of "Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion".