Found a number of Reagan articles and this in one of them...
....a Gallup poll on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Jimmy Carter 47, Ronald Reagan 39. That election two weeks later ended up in a landslide that was so big that Carter conceded before California closed....
I’ll have a tv on in the background the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November... first I’ll feel better when fla comes to trump. Better still when nc does too. Then Va. if it goes Trump I’m opening the glenfiddich. Ohio, Pennsylvania then Michigan
[....a Gallup poll on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it Jimmy Carter 47, Ronald Reagan 39. That election two weeks later ended up in a landslide that was so big that Carter conceded before California closed....]
What a night that was. My first time voting in an election. Graduated HS that year.