It was getting down to crunch time in the 1980 presidential election when, in its weekend edition right before Tuesday's polling took place, the Northern Virginia Sun reported that Ronald Reagan was holding a 9-point lead over Jimmy Carter...
Here's one from the way-back column, this past week in 1980.
As Ronald Reagan and Republicans were basking in the afterglow of a big election victory, local Democrats were trying to pick up the pieces.
As late as 1980, all of...