CBS News Election Night 1980 - 11 p.m. (E)
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[0:25] this portion of election night is
[0:27] sponsored by General Motors people
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[0:38] information to work for people now from
[0:41] CBS News election headquarters in New
[0:42] York here again is Walter
[0:45] kronite on this the 49th time that the
[0:47] United States population has been to the
[0:50] presidential well it has come up with
[0:52] Ronald Reagan as the next president of
[0:55] the United States a the oldest man ever
[0:58] to be elected to that job in his first
[1:00] term at 69 years old and he breaks
[1:03] several other precedents as well he will
[1:05] be the first former Union president to
[1:07] occupy the White House the first former
[1:10] sports announcer the first former actor
[1:12] and the first divorce man ever to be
[1:14] elected to the presidency he also
[1:17] happens to be the first former governor
[1:18] of California elected to that job the
[1:20] first man who has run on his first term
[1:22] from California as a citizen of that
[1:25] state and the first who was born in
[1:28] Illinois it is a sweeping Landslide for
[1:31] governor Reagan tonight a huge one much
[1:34] bigger than anybody had even dared to
[1:36] predict even his most enthusiastic
[1:38] supporters did not to think that it was
[1:40] going to look like this tonight in the
[1:42] National vote now with almost half the
[1:45] nation counted 42% of it counted he has
[1:48] 50% of the vote to 43% for Reagan 6% for
[1:52] John Anderson the independent and uh it
[1:55] will be noted that Jimmy Carter has won
[1:58] so far just these four states and the
[2:02] District of Colombia Georgia uh West