Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full page newspaper advertisements, NBC touted its team of Brokaw, Roger Mudd and John Chancellor, Boxed in a corner, like some surgeon general warning, appeared the first example of "electoral process respect," or EPR. NBC, the ad promised, would not call any state until the network had received some actual returns. That high-minded avowal forced NBC to wait practically an entire minute. By 8:01 p.m., enough "actual returns" had trickled in to allow NBC to credit Reagan with 166 electoral votes...
...refreshingly avoided any whiff of pre-broadcast self-righteousness. NBC and actual returns be damned: at 8 p.m. EST, CBS declared Reagan the winner. ABC followed suit at 8:13; NBC at 8:31. Phew. All that holding back...
...seats lost to Democrats in the '82 election. Such a turnaround, they believe, will give Reagan working control of the House, since many Southern Democrats ("Boll Weevils") can be counted on to support the President. It would take a change of 51 seats to give the G.O.P an actual majority, an unrealistic prospect considering the large number of entrenched Democratic incumbents. The Republicans confidently assume they will maintain control of the Senate, where they now hold a 55-to-45 edge...
...This view flourishes in the U.S., not only in such sects as Jehovah's Witnesses and Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God but also within evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant churches. Literalists are called premillennialists because they believe Christ's Second Coming will precede an actual millennial kingdom (Revelation...
...actual broadcast begins...