Most of us felt Reagan was going to be re-elected. That line ensured that it was going to be by a huge margin.
My buddy Mark worked on the Reagan Bush ‘84 campaign. He told me that when they saw the Minn polls tightening, it was decided to go to Minn the last weekend, a sort of a what-the-heck attempt to pull off a 50-state sweep.
Came close. If social media had been around back then and it got bigger local publicity, it might have happened.
I remember election night ‘84 very well. Haven’t been so pleased on an election eve again until 2016!