Calculation, 272 electoral votes ford, so far for gerald the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. Studios isay in our Howard Penniman of georgetown theersity, stephen hess of brookings institution. Tuesdaysscuss bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now and so the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes for mr. Kaiser and for president ford. Carter and for president four. As you know and all of our elections in the long history of actual winnerthe is determined not by the millions of people who voted for carter or for ford but rather by the 51 elections held in the states and district of columbia. Each state has assigned to it a number of Electoral College votes equal to its congressmen and senators combined. The last of us alaska as three, minnesota as 10. The big states even more. The combination of these electoral votes to a majority of 270 is w
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Highly contested races in u. S. History. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after the boaters went to the polls, when the u. S. Supreme court stopped the florida recount. This awarded the states electoral votes to president bush. Mr. Lehrer good evening from the field house at Washington University in st. Louis. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs. And i welcome you to this third and final campaign 2000 debate between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore, and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. Lets welcome the candidates now. [applause] before proceeding tonight we would like to observe a moment of silence in memory of governor mel carnahan of missouri, who , along with his son and his former chief of staff, died in a private plane crash last night near st. Louis. A reminder, as we continue now, that these debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The formats and the rules were worked out by the comm
Countrys great leaders. Nbc news projects James Earl Carter of the state of georgia elected the next president of the United States. Looking as carefully as humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the carter column and that is that. The electoral vote by our calculation, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon of washington. With me here today in our studios is Howard Penniman of georgetown university, stephen hess of the brookings institution. Today, we are going to try to discuss tuesdays bicentennial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and popular votes