Claim: Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide despite trailing Jimmy Carter in public opinion polls two weeks earlier, so polls cannot be trusted to predict election results.
Fact-check: Ronald Reagan Beat Jimmy Carter in a Landslide Despite Trailing 6% in Polls?
Verdict: Mixture
Organisation: Snopes
Author: David Emery
Date published: 2016-10-23T11:16:54