Mondale Campaign Strategy in 1984

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Here's a map of some of the "battleground" states that year, based off of media reports.

Although I haven't heard of any more, I'm guessing a few other states like Washington, Oregon, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Maybe Jimmy Carter's home state of Georgia etc. were targeted heavily by both campaigns judging by their closeness to the national vote, or because they gave Mondale better margins than the nation as a whole.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Not sure if this helps, but according to this website (http://www.mit.edu/~mi22295/elections.html), if you were to add the closest Reagan states to Mondale's column, you'd eventually get a Mondale victory looking like this:

Hmm, how'd they come up with that?



Based on percentages from each state, I'm guessing a Mondale victory probably would've looked more like this.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Yeah, I saw some of their other maps and I just LULD 

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Yeah I would likely go with Mr Fuzzletons map it also looks more contured to the state trends of the time. A Mondale win in California (Reagan's home state) would seem beyond weird but I suppose that would be his only path to a 270 electoral vote win. Based on his percentage of the vote being higher here then other states that would help total 270. For instance he only got 38% in Connecticut but 41% here in California.

True, or he would just have to pray that some of those Southern States which Carter did well in (like NC, KY, AR, and GA) could pull him through.