Project X

Modern-day election nights are huge ordeals, with computer graphics, breathless coverage, and lightning-fast returns and predictions. But have they always been this way? This episode of Precedented Times dives deep into the history of election nights in America— what they’ve been, and how they’ve become what we know them as today. To achieve this, we visit the election of 1952, where computers and technology played a new and “unprecedented” role in the election story.