The computer that called the election, and wasn't believed

On election night, November 4, 1952, CBS brought in a room-sized computer called UNIVAC. Early in the night, it predicted a landslide for Dwight Eisenhower: 438 electoral votes to 93.

CBS didn't trust the machine and kept the prediction off the air. The final result was 442 to 89. It was the first time a computer forecast an election on TV.

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