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They defeated the Democratic ticket of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro. Reagan and Bush faced only token opposition in their bid for re-nomination. Mondale faced a competitive field in his bid, defeating Colorado Senator Gary Hart, activist Jesse Jackson, and several other candidates in the 1984 Democratic ...
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In the general election, Mondale and Ferraro were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush. Ferraro twice ran campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate from New York, in 1992 and in 1998 , both times starting as the front-runner for her party's nomination before losing ...
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A former United States Senator from Minnesota, Mondale considered running for the Democratic nomination in the 1976 presidential election, but he dropped out of the race on November 21, 1974, after having built a campaign for two years. When he dropped out, he said that he felt he lacked "the overwhelming desire to be President" and wanted to avoid...
Democratic presidential primaries
Mondale's opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination in 1984 included Reubin Askew, Jesse Jackson, George McGovern, and Gary Hart. In early polls, Mondale had a comfortable lead over his primary rivals, and he was considered the front-runner for the nomination by odds makers. John Glenn was considered Mondale's closest rival early in the race, but Glenn's campaign collapsed early on, as did most of the other Democratic candidates' campaigns. In 1983, Mondale was endorsed by almost al...
Democratic National Convention
Shortly before the 1984 Democratic National Convention, Mondale chose Bert Lance to be his campaign's general chairman, and unsuccessfully attempted to remove Charles Manatt from his position as party chairman. Mondale and his campaign stopped their effort to oust Manatt in response to protests from party leaders. On Mondale's decisions, one anonymous Democratic Party aide told the New York Times: "It's a disaster. People are gulping hard. No one knows why he did it." His choice of Lance prov...
During the general election, over a dozen political professionals doubted whether Mondale was appealing enough as a person to win the election and questioned his decision to spend considerable time campaigning in states that he had almost no chance of winning. Some of these professionals also told the New York Times that they were "amazed" at the s...
Soon after the election, Democrats offered multiple different theories for why Mondale lost in a landslide: Jesse Jackson argued that the Democrats had pandered too much to white men, and Mondale himself said in February 1985 that he lost because of his inability to appear compelling on television. William Raspberrydisagreed with Mondale's self-ass...
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Als demokratische Kandidatin für das Amt des Vizepräsidenten wurde die New Yorker Kongressabgeordnete Geraldine Ferraro nominiert. Sie war die erste Politikerin einer großen Partei, die für das Amt des Vizepräsidenten kandidierte.
Im Vorfeld der Präsidentschaftswahl 1984 wählte sie der ehemalige Vizepräsident Walter Mondale als seinen Running Mate für das Amt der Vizepräsidentin, während er als Präsident kandidierte. Sie war zwar nicht die erste Kandidatin für die Vizepräsidentschaft, da sich 1884 schon Marietta Stow um das Amt beworben hatte, aber die erste ...
3. Aug. 2020 · Down 16 points in the polls when Mondale named Ferarro, then 48, his vice president pick, the excitement surrounding the nomination gave the new ticket a big bounce, bringing the polling to...
27. März 2011 · (CNN) -- Walter Mondale recalled Saturday why he chose Geraldine Ferraro to be his running mate in the 1984 presidential election. "She was the right choice," Mondale said. "She's smart. She...
