Here’s some of NBC’s Election Night coverage in 1992, projecting that Bill Clinton has won the presidency.
Quite a time warp. Katie Couric with really dark hair and makeup (at about five minutes in); John Chancellor, still alive; and Tim Russert. Lots of prescience — talking about the new “electronic” ways that politicians could communicate with the people, a year before the first web browser would come into use; the idea that Clinton and Gore could be in office until the millennium; a new generation of people taking over Washington.
All this heady optimism after 12 years of Republican rule. What a great time it was. (The analogy to our hopes today is too obvious…)
its weird how NBC used an inverted color scheme. CBS and ABC at the time used the current one.
Hearing Brokaw and Gumbel talk makes me realize just how inarticulate and bumbling Wolf Blitzer is.
Jay- they used to alternate the parties between red and blue. It wasn’t until 2000 when the networks talked about the “red states” that we got locked in to the current color scheme.