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Ronald Reagan famously carried 49 out of 50 US states in the presidential election of 1984. I recall someone observing that Walter Mondale only carried his native Minnesota, the fiftieth state, by a narrow margin. So what if Reagan does a bit better and carries all fifty?

Besides the fact that future generations of Republicans would idolise Reagan even more (if that's even possible), it occurs to me that the Soviets et al could perhaps use this sort of suspicious-looking result (even though it's completely genuine) to accuse the Americans of vote-rigging in order to muddy the waters surrounding the Cold War moral high ground.

The only problem with this idea is that Mondale still wins DC, which is pretty much impossible for a Republican to win, so Reagan wouldn't win every vote in the electoral college for the full "election result normally only seen in crazy third world dictatorships" effect...
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