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ELECTION DAY 1980. At 8:14 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, just under three hours before the polls closed in California, NBC News announced that, based on exit polling. Ronald Reagan would be the next president. Meanwhile, California Democratic congressman James C. Corman was hanging onto a slim lead in his reelection bid. By the end of the night, however, Corman had lost his seat by only 752 votes out of the 150,000 cast...
Though speed was the object, the networks did not gauge the possible effects of the early announcements. As it happened, many people in the Pacific time zone--including Corman's constituents--whose polls were still open decided not to vote, feeling their ballot was useless. This did not affect the presidential race, which was decided east of the Mississippi. But in smaller congressional, state, and local races--particularly Corman's--Democratic candidates lost votes when despairing Carter supporters chose not to cast their ballots...
...projected loser will not turn out, hurting those on the ticket whose races have not yet been decided. Ostensibly, had Carter's fate not been prematurely broadcast on national television, more Democrats would have decided to vote between six and eight o'clock Pacific time, probably returning Corman to his seat. But instead, NBC went public and Bobbi Fiedler is now the representative for California's 21st Congressional District...
...Horrors, the cheery, off-Broadway hit now playing in New York City. You don't meet nice plants either. The star of the show is a wonderfully animated blob of garden life named Audrey II that takes a carnivorous delight in human blood. The description once fit Roger Corman, 56, too. But that was in the days when he ran American International Pictures, producing such classics as Not of This Earth, A Bucket of Blood and a little-known 1960 pastiche shot in just two days called The Little Shop of Horrors, on which the new play is based...
...Valentine's Day Massacre (1967, cameo) d. Corman...