I was a 17 year old high school senior in 1984.
Our obvious democrat civics teacher asked for a show of hands for those who would vote for Mondale. Not one hand went up out of a class of 25..
This class was pretty diverse with a couple of blacks, punk rock kids, new wave goth kids, daughters of lawyers, sons of union men and some white trash.EVERYONE loved Reagan because we all vividly remembered the fricken’ awful Carter years.
I’m betting many of these same kids stayed relatively conservative over the years.
2012 will be Reagan 2.0 conservative movement led by Gen X.
I remember the same thing. I was either in 4th or 5th grade and one person supported Mondale. It was a more republican leaning area but there were some minorities and traditional democrats. That election and 1988 were likely the most lopsided we will see in our lifetime. I don’t see landslides of that type again barring a complete collapse of a candidate in the fall of an election. the country is balkanized now and I don’t see that changing.