As we all know, Reagan was a historically unpopular president, often considered to be the worst of the 20th century. In fact, his unpopularity was so enormously large that former vice president Mondale ran and beat Reagan in a 49 state landslide, with Reagan only winning Utah with 49.72 percent of the vote to Mondale's 49.54 percent. In the popular vote, it was just as lopsided, with Mondale taking 60.89 percent of the vote, to Reagan only taking 38.97 percent.
But let's just imagine that never happened. Can we imagine a case, as ASB as it may sound, where Reagan even barely manages to win in that election. What would America be like?