In 1984 President Reagan won 7 electoral votes and 685,700 popular votes. Walter Mondale won 0 popular votes and 536,479 popular votes.
The word is a vastly different place since 1984, especially in places like OR, CO, WA.
Just in the last four years, CO went from a +5 GOP registration to a +1 D registration advantage. I haven’t followed OR cuz last I looked in 2016, Ds had a big voter reg advantage. I seriously doubt it changed.
Trump won’t win CO barring a huge shift; he won’t win OR or WA, and he won’t win RI, CT, VT, DE, MD, NY, CA, or IL.
He has a long shot at ME and VA, good shot at NV and NM, and should win MN and NH, plus all he held in 2016.
Don’t look at past, meaningless elections. Look at current voter registrations. That tells you all you need to know.
CA has gone from +3m D in 2016 to now 3.2m D and from 5.2m R to 4.8m R today.