Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UDALL. To stay in the race as a serious contender, he needed to win in Wisconsin. The narrow loss was only partly offset by his unexpectedly strong showing in New York, where he did well among affluent liberals, well-educated young people and nonorganization Democrats. Thus, barring a miracle, Udall's role in the campaign is now that of a spoiler, offering liberals an alternative to Carter and siphoning off some of his potential support...
...Milwaukee Sentinel was selling secondhand for $20 a copy, the Chicago Tribune was preparing an editorial reminding readers of its own DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN gaffe, two television networks were sharing their humiliation with an audience of millions, and Jimmy Carter had snatched a memorable psychological victory in the Wisconsin Democratic primary. All this because in their race to be first, ABC and NBC had declared Congressman Morris Udall an upset winner instead of what he was about to be, a game loser...
...began at 8:27 p.m. CST, just 27 minutes after the Wisconsin polls closed last Tuesday night. ABC's Harry Reasoner interrupted The Rookies to say that Udall was headed for a surprising victory over Governor Carter. For a while, NBC held off. Then, at 9:22 p.m., John Chancellor announced Udall would be the winner by "a modest margin." That left CBS the lone TV network holdout. CBS steadfastly refused to concede anything except that the race was "extremely close" until 1:30 a.m., when it became clear that Carter had eked out a victory and Walter Cronkite...
...large green-carpeted hall jammed with college students, flashing phones and clacking keypunch machines, Columbia University Student John Perrotta took the first call from Wisconsin at precisely 9:07 p.m. Perrotta pulled out a coded sheet of paper and quickly penciled in the totals: 133 votes for Gerald Ford; 83 for Ronald Reagan. He noted the call had come from Milwaukee's Fifth Congressional District and handed the sheet to a dungaree-clad coed, who took it to a bank of keypunch operators...
...into its system and moved by high-speed teletype to the nation's wire services and television networks. By the time Perrotta's phone blinked again, hundreds of other students, technicians and supervisors at two locations in New York City were gathering, sorting and sending out the Wisconsin and New York State votes to their customers...