Remember when Reagan almost ran the table -- and later said: If only we'd stopped in ??? Was it Wisconsin he wanted to stop, they didn't and it was the one they lost.
It was Minnesota. Apparently, in the final days of the campaign, Reagan was told it would be a rout and if he made one stop in Minnesota, it could have been 50 states. Reagan decided not to so that he would not purposely humiliate Mondale. He would have been happy to win Minnesota, but didn't want to add insult to injury.