Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illegal. Thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. Its very exciting. Im very excited. When john f. Kennedy beat
midmanhattan with our rca 501 computer. Only onetent of the total vote is in, were going to have what we call projections. Thats estimates on what the final vote will be in a popular and then what the final vote will be in the Electoral College. Heres
Following day, the day after election. But that race was nuts. This is great. Ive got something to show you. This is great. Michael beschloss tipped us off on to this stuff. We went into the archives and found out today. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race and 40 was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . In addition to all the native, organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew mysterious, unknowable computing machines. That was basically the tv side show act that year alongside the election. These gigantic beeping machines that could somehow tell who was going to win. Watch this. In another part of the city, the rca 501 computer is beginning to whirl away digesting these numbers faster than we can even utter them. Im down in wall street in midmanhattan with our rca 50
The race for kennedy until 7 00 in the morning. And when they did make that call for kennedy, they were actually wrong about which states everybody had won at that point. Kennedy did actually win the election, and nixon did formally concede around lunchtime the following day. The day after election day. But that race was nuts. And this is great. I got something to show you. Michael beshloss tipped us off to this. In the archives, this is great. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns, that close, close year in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race, in addition to the back and forth about who was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . I mean, in addition to all of the just native organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew, mysterious, unknowable, computing machines. That was basically the tv sideshow act that year
And when they did make that call for kennedy, they were actually wrong about which states everybody had won at that point. Kennedy did actually win the election and nixon did formally concede around lunchtime the following day, the day after election. But that race was nuts. This is great. Ive got something to show you. This is great. Michael beschloss tipped us off on to this stuff. We went into the archives and found out today. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race and 40 was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . In addition to all the native, organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew mysterious, unknowable computing machines. That was basically the tv side show act that year alongside the election. These gigantic beeping machines that could somehow tell who was goin