Flashback:Cronkite calls election for Reagan, Rather: "Rejection of the party and liberal orthodoxy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMpQqDP-nk&feature=related A great clip of Walter Cronkite and a CBS panel announcing Reagan's 1980 landslide victory. Wondering how all the polls were so wrong, how Carter could have done so badly, what happened. Dan Rather says it was just a total rejection of the democratic party and of liberalism. Leslie Stahl calls Carter impotent and incompetent, a total failure. Cronkite tries to defend him on the hostages. Harry Reasoner explains that he had no base, just blacks and hispanics. That the midwest totally abandoned him over unemployment. It's like a funeral on the set. Just extremely entertaining. Worth watching in...
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