Thanks for posting. I, too, was wondering about 1980 and how the media portrayed the election in the weeks preceeding it. Those turkeys.
I remember it well. It was one of the longest election days but a glorious election night. I don’t remember a lot of numbers but I know Gallup and others showed a very tight race, even if Reagan was ahead. Carter was still considered competitive in FL and TX, both of which he ended up losing by large margins. So that was one year in which many polls were flat out wrong or failed to catch last minute trends.