Any body remember democracy?
This old article discusses the final recount of the florida 2000 ballots.
It would appear that Gore took a narrow majority in FL as well as the nation at large. The article also points out that all of the elections in the sixties and seventies were similarly narrow margins>The main difference is that then the Appointed presidents won the poular vote as well. It seems to me that Mondale lost to Reagan by a narrow popular margin, although Reagan carried nearly every district in the country, it was only a small difference in the popular count.