CBS News Election Night 1980 - 11:30 p.m. (E)
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[0:01] [Music]
[0:23] [Music]
[0:25] this portion of election night is
[0:26] sponsored by the Bell System keeping
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[0:39] America's estimate and here is Ronald
[0:41] Reagan Let's uh see if we can listen in
[0:44] he's in his hotel suite in Los
[0:52] Angeles I don't think we had uh audio
[0:55] from that picture anyway it was a brief
[0:57] shot that they permitted us uh as he
[1:00] obviously took a congratulatory call
[1:02] from uh a friend we assume that that
[1:04] call was not from President Carter he
[1:07] said he called him sometime ago to
[1:09] concede the election and to congratulate
[1:11] him as did John Anderson the independent
[1:14] candidate who incidentally now has a 6%
[1:18] of the votes with just 50% of the
[1:20] national vote counted incidentally with
[1:22] that 60 50% half the nation's vote
[1:25] counted it's 50% still for Reagan 43%
[1:30] Carter 6% for John Anderson and for Ed
[1:34] Clark the libertarian candidate uh just
[1:36] a bare 1% of the vote that 6% for
[1:40] Anderson if it holds up all evening
[1:42] through the western state count will
[1:44] mean that he will collect Federal
[1:46] matching funds and perhaps be able to
[1:48] retire a great portion if not all of his
[1:51] presidential campaign debt Let's uh go
[1:54] now to those Western States and a report
[1:57] from our Western Regional reporter
[1:59] leslee stall Walter Ronald Reagan is
[2:01] taking the west by storm let's look at
[2:04] the uh recap board and see how well he
[2:06] is doing we don't have any returns in
[2:08] yet from the state of Alaska but he is
[2:11] uh decisively