WI: Walter Mondale loses Minnesota in the 1984 Election?

The 1984 United States presidential election, which pitted former Vice President Walter Mondale against President Ronald Reagan, is considered to be one of the worst landslide defeats in American history, Reagan beat Mondale by a commanding margin in the popular vote (58.8% to 40.6%) and an even more commanding margin in the electoral vote, 525 to 13; winning 49 of 50 states (and losing only Minnesota, Mondale's home state; and the District of Columbia).

However, Mondale only won Minnesota by a mere 3,761 votes, what would have happened had at least 3.762 votes (if not more) swung the other way and gave Reagan Minnesota, and thus all 50 states and a commanding 535 - 3 victory in the electoral vote; what kind of effect would this have had on American politics?
 
Probably not much wider difference in the world, beyond Mondale feeling rather more down in the dumps after not even winning his home state.
 
No change, without winning DC which wasn't going to happen, Reagan was not going to be the first president since Washington to win ALL electoral votes in an election.
 
No change, without winning DC which wasn't going to happen, Reagan was not going to be the first president since Washington to win ALL electoral votes in an election.

He would go down as the first president to win all 50 states however. Outside of that entry in the history books I can't see much of a real change, except for Walter Mondale who feels even more humiliated.
 
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