CBS News - Iowa caucuses - 1984-02-20
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[0:00] cast.
[0:19] CBS News coverage of campaign 84 begins
[0:23] tonight. The Iowa caucuses.
[0:26] Reporting from the Civic Center in De
[0:28] Mo, Iowa. Here is Dan Rather.
[0:31] >> Good evening. In the first in the nation
[0:33] Iowa caucuses, the first results in
[0:35] tonight from real live voters making
[0:37] real life choices. And Walter Montdale
[0:39] is by CBS News estimate the number one
[0:42] choice by far. Running second by CBS
[0:45] News estimate, a distant second, but a
[0:47] solid and surprised second. Senator Gary
[0:50] Hart of Colorado, who spent a lot of
[0:52] time here in Iowa, but did not have a
[0:54] lot of money to spend compared to the
[0:56] others. and with heart a surprise number
[0:59] two. Get a load of who didn't even make
[1:01] it to number three or four by the
[1:03] estimate of CBS News so far tonight. It
[1:06] isn't until you get past Manddale, Hart,
[1:08] Cranston, and McGovern that you get to
[1:11] Senator John Glenn, what's got to be a
[1:13] disappointment to the candidate who has
[1:15] been saying that he is the Democrat of
[1:17] the Senate and the principal opponent
[1:19] for Walter Monday. Here's how the
[1:20] results translate into candidate
[1:22] strength on the basis of tonight's Iowa
[1:24] caucuses. with 62% of the caucuses
[1:28] reporting. Our CBS News uh uh results
[1:32] translate into this kind of candidate
[1:34] strength. Remember, this is a long
[1:36] complex process in Iowa. yet to be had
[1:39] are the county district and state
[1:41] caucuses. But on the basis of what
[1:43] happened inside those caucuses tonight,
[1:45] Montdale 48%, Hart 16%, McGovern 10%,
[1:50] >> uncommitted 10%, Cranston 8%, John Glenn
[1:55] 3%.
[1:58] Ask 3%, Jackson 2%, and Hollings uh we
[2:02] no percent, whic