“Mondale was a Minnesota native or it would have happened.”
I was not a GOP activist in ‘84 but in the years afterwards, I’d ask about the ‘84 election and almost to a person older GOP activists would say that the Dems knew Mondale was struggling even in his own state.
There have long been allegations about ballot stuffing in a few areas of far western Minnesota and up in the Iron Range.
Mondale only won MN by 2500