AHC: Biggest Losers Into Winners

Alf Landon(1936), George McGovern(1972) and Walter Mondale(1984) suffered some of the biggest losses in any presidential election. Landon got only 8 electoral votes, McGovern and Mondale only got 1 state+DC. All were trying to unseat the incumbent(FDR, Nixon, Reagan). The challenge I have is to find a way to allow these guys to beat the incumbent.

The POD being when the person they tried to beat OTL first became president. For Alf Landon the POD is 1933, for George McGovern the POD is 1969 and for Walter Mondale the POD is 1981
 
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The POD is their inauguration? You mean they beat the incumbent AFTER they've been sworn in?

Do you mean to say the POD is their nomination(ie. the convention)? Or do you mean the inauguration of the incumbent they beat(eg. POD for Mondale is January 20 1981)?
 
The POD is their inauguration? You mean they beat the incumbent AFTER they've been sworn in?

Do you mean to say the POD is their nomination(ie. the convention)? Or do you mean the inauguration of the incumbent they beat(eg. POD for Mondale is January 20 1981)?
Cleared things up
 
If FDR were a weaker president, the GOP would probably do much better than it did in OTL in the 1934 midterms and would therefore not nominate Landon in 1936. Landon was one of the very few GOP governors who survived the Democratic landslide of 1934 in OTL.
 
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