Am I the only one here who is SICK of hearing the name Mondale?

[FlyingSquirrel]

Geez you can't swing a mouse around here without someone comparing this year to the nomination of Mondale in '80.

#1, can anything be MORE irrelevant?
#2, did he not get CRUSHED?
#3, ... well, just WHY?

[robbedvoter]

1. I am NOT. he was way more progressive than Garry Hart. They stole it from him

in Minnesota when he ran for Wellstone's chair (Bush had given Coleman "the kiss" that I saw in all the 2002 fixed elections)

[Generic Brad]

2. I wil never get sick of hearing Mondale's name

He was one of the best vice presidents this country has ever had. He was a damned fine senator. He did us proud as ambassador to Japan. Mondale rocks!

[UTUSN]

3. Apparently. n/t

[Kokonoe]

4. Link?

[FlyingSquirrel]

7. Well, maybe I'm just noticing it more 'cause

it has been in a lot of the threads I'm reading.

Being near 50 percent is huge as well. It's also of note that, as Jay Cost, pointed out, Clinton's win in New Hampshire put together the Mondale coalition so perfectly that she did it better than he did. She won NH. Mondale didn't!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4036261


As I said, Clinton's is the type of electorate that has delivered Democrats the nomination again and again. These results remind me a great deal of the electorate that delivered Mondale the nomination in 1984 - noting, of course, the irony that Clinton won New Hampshire and Mondale did not.... more at link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4007074


Mondale’s numbers actually improved dramatically once he added (Ferraro) to the ticket.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=3978352

[fishwax]

5. Guess I haven't noticed

:shrug:

[H2O Man]

6. yes