Reagan Today

It looks so good, it’s frightening,” says a top Reagan campaign operative. “Supporters ‘ are saying, ‘What are we jazzing up for? We ought to coast.’ Apathy. That’s what we’re worried about.” To fight apathy, Dick Wirthlin and other private pollsters retained by the Reagan operation are skewing their numbers and their rhetoric to make the President look as if he were vulnerable. But the truth of the matter—as shown by the confidential polling data now held in the Reagan inner sanctum—is that, as of early February, Mr. Reagan leads Walter Mondale 384 to 154-in electoral votes.

According to these data, the President is currently outpolling Mr. Mondale in the following states: Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arizona (7), Arkansas (6), California (47), Colorado (8), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Florida (21), Georgia (12), Idaho (4), Illinois (24), Indiana (12), Iowa (8), Kansas (7), Kentucky (9), Louisiana (10), Michigan (20), Mississippi (7), Montana (4), Nebraska (5), Nevada (4), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), North Carolina (13), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (8), Oregon (7), South Carolina (8), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Texas (29), Utah (5), Vermont (3), Virginia (12), Washington (10), Wisconsin (11), and Wyoming (3). Total: 38 states, for 384 electoral votes.

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It looks so good, it’s frightening,” says a top Reagan campaign operative. “Supporters ‘ are saying, ‘What are we jazzing up for? We ought to coast.’ Apathy. That’s what we’re worried about.” To fight apathy, Dick Wirthlin and other private pollsters retained by the Reagan operation are skewing their numbers and their rhetoric to make the President look as if he were vulnerable. But the truth of the matter—as shown by the confidential polling data now held in the Reagan inner sanctum—is that, as of early February, Mr. Reagan leads Walter Mondale 384 to 154-in electoral votes.

According to these data, the President is currently outpolling Mr. Mondale in the following states: Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arizona (7), Arkansas (6), California (47), Colorado (8), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Florida (21), Georgia (12), Idaho (4), Illinois (24), Indiana (12), Iowa (8), Kansas (7), Kentucky (9), Louisiana (10), Michigan (20), Mississippi (7), Montana (4), Nebraska (5), Nevada (4), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), North Carolina (13), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (8), Oregon (7), South Carolina (8), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Texas (29), Utah (5), Vermont (3), Virginia (12), Washington (10), Wisconsin (11), and Wyoming (3). Total: 38 states, for 384 electoral votes.