 The episode constituted a 30 percent drop in viewership from the previous week's episode, "Live Show", which was watched by 6.701 million American viewers.Matt Hubbard received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards.Television columnist Alan Sepinwall for HitFix reported that despite "Reaganing" not being a perfect episode it was still "a very good one in what's so far ... been a very strong rebound season for "30 Rock"."