As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story

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155. if they voted against him in the 1984 election, they must have been microscopic in number

If anything, it would seem they doubled down and voted for him in even greater numbers.

If 1881 Minnesota voters had flipped from Democratic to Rethug, Reagan would have swept all 50 states in 1984. DC still went 85.38% Democratic.

Reagan won 58.8% of the popular vote and carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming the oldest person, at the time, to win a presidential election. Reagan's showing ranks fifth in the share of electoral votes received and fifth in the share of the popular vote won. No candidate since 1984 has equalled Reagan's share of the electoral or popular vote. Mondale received 40.6% of the popular vote, but carried only the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota. Reagan also won the highest number of electoral votes of any president thus far.

Post 1820 (if not for 1 elector in 1820, Monroe would have joined George Washington (who did it twice) as the only unanimous 100% EC getters, although the process was different back then, and they both ran unopposed), only FDR in 1936 had a bigger EC % win (98.49% versus Reagan's 97.58% , and Landon still won 2 states (Maine and Vermont, by around 14% and 13% respectively, so not even close like MN was in 1984.) DC could not vote then, that did not happen until the Twenty-third Amendment was adopted in 1961. Nixon in 1972 also won all but one State (Massachusetts, by around 9%, so again, not close like 1984 MN) and also lost DC as well. Nixon did win in 1972 by the biggest popular vote raw number margin ever, almost 18 million votes, and Reagan in 1984 was the second largest popular vote raw number margin, almost 17 million.






If you toss out the EC and only look at the popular vote %, these were the biggest landslides in US history.

Harding in 1920 holds the record, with a 26.17% margin of victory. Woodrow Wilson was hated by then, the nation was in a deep recession after the WWI boom had collapsed, there were terror attacks (Anarchists etc), massive riots, and other social tensions were going on. Harding campaigned on...... 'A return to normalcy' (sounds familiar, lolol)