1952 United States presidential election

CBS election night coverage with the UNIVAC computer, November 4, 1952 One of the first nights a computer joined a results broadcast, and the original cautionary tale of election analytics. Early in the evening UNIVAC forecast an Eisenhower landslide, but its programmers judged the prediction too risky to release because pre-election polls had pointed to a tight race. Later in the broadcast CBS's Charles Collingwood admitted on air that the machine had called it hours earlier. This is one to read about as much as watch, but every modern decision desk starts here.