[Revelation 911]

If inrecall...Reagan was neck and neck with carter in the polls...none showed the landslide it was....polls are bs

[Gaffer]

I knew standing in line that day they were all bullsh!t

[IrishBrigade]

.Reagan was neck and neck with carter in the polls...none showed the landslide it was....polls are bs

yu are aware that in 1980, political polling was still in its infancy as a predictive medium, and nobody but Gallup ever made money from it...

pollsters don’t make money for being wrong...

[Jack Black]

If inrecall...Reagan was neck and neck with carter in the polls...none showed the landslide it was....polls are bs

Reagan smashed the electoral college:

, and smashed the popular vote, too.

Nominee	Ronald Reagan	Jimmy Carter	John B. Anderson
Party	Republican	Democratic	Independent
Home state	California	Georgia	Illinois
Running mate	George H. W. Bush	Walter Mondale	Patrick Lucey
Electoral vote	489	49	0
States carried	44	6 + DC	0
Popular vote	43,903,230	35,480,115	5,719,850
Percentage	50.7%	41.0%	6.6%

Well for sure, this America doesn't exist anymore:

If you look at the "Historic Presidential Polls" page you can see that 2 or three polls in Aug/Sept. time from had Reagan ahead, one by a very large margin. The polls showed a tighter race in the last Oct. period before the vote, but still one (of three archived) showed Reagan ahead at 47%.

Here is the Gallup track for that election:

All in all though, I think these details substantiates your point. It was a blow out and the polls missed it.

Here is a whole article (from March of this year) that compares Trump to Reagan in 1980 - and it already seems wildly out of date!

This Is Not 1980, And Donald Trump Is Not Ronald Reagan

He's a bitter #NeverTrump guy who has moved over the National Review now. LOL.

[forgotten man]

Most of the people I knew who voted for Reagan are in Heaven now. Unfortunately, if they are still voting, they are voting Democrat now.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Actually, Carter was ahead of Reagan by double digits in the summer of 1980.

By October, the media said Carter was “9 points ahead.”

On the eve of the election, the race was “too close to call.”

I lived in California back then, and at 3:00 PM Pacific time on election day, the alphabet networks called the race for Reagan.