[wny]

“...most popular sitting president in history.” ??

I don’t think so.

I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s 49 state, 525 -13 EV destruction of Mondale in 1984.

[JBW1949]

Reagan and Trump, the TWO most popular Presidents in history...

[hanamizu]

“I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s 49 state, 525 -13 EV destruction of Mondale in 1984.”

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Richard Nixon won 49 states in 1972 for all the good it did him. The dems wanted him destroyed since he went after Alger Hiss as a Congressman. Took them a quarter of a century, but they pulled it off.

[Dr. Franklin]

I don’t think so.
I’m old enough to remember Reagan’s 49 state, 525 -13 EV destruction of Mondale in 1984.

Both Reagan and Nixon won over 500 EV, but in each case, that was more of a reflection of whom the opposition candidate was rather on their personal popularity. Without RFK and George Wallace getting shot, Nixon probably doesn't win that big in '72, if at all. Reagan's midterm recession was the worst since the Great Depression. Billy Joe's Allentown where "they're closing all the factories down, they've taken all the coal from the ground, [and] I won't be getting up today", is about that recession. Despite all of the MSM's favorable news coverage of Reagan as the likeable, grandfatherly figure who had jelly beans in the Oval Office, in January 1984 he was losing to Colorado senator Gary Hart in the polls. Hart always did better against Reagan in the polls, but the Dem party bosses went with Mondale. Hart predicted that Mondale would lose when he chose Ferraro, the first major party female VP, and he was very correct.

Trump was up by huge margins on election night in the five swing states that stopped counting to enable even more massive election fraud than had occurred before that. Due to the fraud, it is impossible to compare Trump's win with either Reagan's or Nixon's. No one in American history was subject to the level of election fraud witnesses in 2020. All of that stated, Hoft may have overstated things, but he is entitled to his opinion.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How I miss the Gipper…