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• Dept. Of Wanna-Bes And Never Dids: Kindly Old VP Wishes He, Too, Had Been Evil Despot

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Bush Administration, Dept Of Wanna Bes And Never Dids, Dick Cheney, Impeachment, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Watergate

  Back in the late ’70s, two kindly yet inept gentlemen were elected as president and vice president, simply because their names weren’t Nixon, Agnew or Ford. One of those men, former VP...

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• So Walter Mondale Is Still Alive?: Hillary Clinton has secured the crucial Walter ...

  Published: October 12, 2007, 4:17 pm

  Tags: 2008, Hillary Clinton, Quicklinks, So Walter Mondale Still Alive, Walter Mondale

  Hillary Clinton has secured the crucial Walter Mondale endorsement. [The Hill]

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• So Walter Mondale Is Still Alive?: Hillary Clinton has secured the crucial Walter ...

  Published: October 12, 2007, 4:17 pm

  Tags: 2008, Hillary Clinton, Quicklinks, So Walter Mondale Still Alive, Walter Mondale

  Hillary Clinton has secured the crucial Walter Mondale endorsement. [The Hill]

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• Walter Mondale backs Clinton

  Published: October 13, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Walter Mondale

  In news about another former Vice President who didn't become President but won his home state, Walter Mondale is throwing his support behind Senator Hillary Clinton. The Hill reports, "Mondale's endorsement could prove especially valuable in Iowa, which borders his home state of Minnesota. Mondale won Iowa overwhelmingly in the '84 primary".

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• Great News for Clinton!

  Published: November 5, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Early And Often, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Race, Walter Mondale

  AFP/Getty Images (Mondale), Getty Images (sign) Last month, Hillary Clinton garnered the doubtlessly coveted endorsement of George McGovern (1972, one state won, 17 electoral votes). This weekend brought another exciting bit of news on the Losers 4 Hillary front: the enthusiastic endorsement by Walter Mondale (1984 nominee, one

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• Inevitable Hillary and the Mondale Express

  Published: November 28, 2007, 10:38 pm

  Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Walter Mondale

  he had the chance to put Mr. Mondale away on Super Tuesday, but a devastating debate moment Mr. Mondale's appropriation of the Wendy's Where's the beef? ad slogan to attack Mr. Hart handed Mr. Mondale narrow, game-saving wins in Georgia and Alabama. Had he won those states, the nomination would have been Mr. Hart's. Instead,

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• Clinton and Mondale, Hagel at CFR

  Published: November 29, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Politics, Chuck Hagel, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Walter Mondale

  Steve Kornacki draws parallels between the Clinton campaign and Walter Mondale's in 1984. Also from the Observer, Niall Stanage reports on Chuck Hagel at the Council of Foreign Relations, where he spoke about the current president, his willingness to consider running on a Democratic ticket, and his (apparently high) opinion of Hillary Clinton.

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• Mondale and Applebaum in Iowa

  Published: December 18, 2007, 10:57 am

  Tags: Politics, Stuart Appelbaum, Walter Mondale

  A union spokesperson sent over this photo of former Vice President Walter Mondale campaigning for Hillary Clinton with R.W.D.S.U. President Stuart Appelbaum and members of the union in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last weekend.

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• Run for President of Afghanistan? Zalmay, Zalmay Not.

  Published: January 9, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Run, For, President, Afghanistan, Zalmay, Zalmay, Not, Madeleine Albright, United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, Walter Mondale, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, California, Daniel Webster, Gloria Squitiro, Mark Funkhouser, Paul Wolfowitz, Norway, United States, Iowa, Apco Worldw

  Seems everyone is riveted to news reports about the presidential campaign here. Everyone, that is, except some folks at the United Nations, where persistent chatter has it that Zalmay Khalilzad, our ambassador to the U.N., is also thinking of running for president . . . of Afghanistan.

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• How Barack Obama's S.C. Win Differs From Jesse Jackson's

  Published: January 27, 2008, 6:52 pm

  Tags: Politics, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, John Edwards, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale

  the race. In '84, Jackson, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart were the only three viable candidates for the Democratic nomination by the time South Carolina rolled around, although Jackson was not considered a serious threat. The South Carolina caucuses were not a standalone event, as yesterday's primary was. They fell on the same Saturday as

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• Gary Hart: Obama Won't Fade

  Published: February 7, 2008, 11:20 am

  Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Gary Hart, Hillary Clinton, Walter Mondale

  and, within weeks, brought Walter Mondale -- who had entered the campaign as the most prohibitive favorite in primary history -- to the brink of capitulation. A Hart sweep of Super Tuesday in early March 1984 would have flushed the former Vice President from contention, but when Mondale narrowly won two states that day (to Hart's seven), the

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• Obama Wave Stuns Clinton's Black Supporters

  Published: February 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Obama, Wave, Stuns, Clinton S, Black, Supporters, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr, Doug Palmer, John Lewis, Walter Mondale, Willie Brown, Texas, The Associated Press, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Emanuel Cleaver, U S Democratic Party, Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland

  You can see the confusion on some of their faces, hear the concern in their voices. How in the world do we deal with this ?

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• Obama Wave Stuns Clinton's Black Supporters

  Published: February 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Obama, Wave, Stuns, Clinton S, Black, Supporters, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson Jr, Doug Palmer, John Lewis, Walter Mondale, Willie Brown, Texas, The Associated Press, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Emanuel Cleaver, U S Democratic Party, Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland

  You can see the confusion on some of their faces, hear the concern in their voices. How in the world do we deal with this?

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• Bob Bauer and the Return of Mustard Gas

  Published: February 21, 2008, 7:48 pm

  Tags: Politics, American Leadership Project, Barack Obama, Bob Bauer, Gary Hart, Hillary Clinton, Walter Mondale

  between Gary Hart and Walter Mondale. Mondale, the Hillary-like machine/establishment candidate of 1984, was—like every other candidate back in those days—accepting federal matching funds for his campaign, meaning that his primary season spending was capped at $20 million. Like Hillary's brain trust, the Mondale campaign never

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• Hillary as Mondale, Again

  Published: February 29, 2008, 10:00 am

  Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Gary Hart, Hillary Clinton, Walter Mondale

  of the world is at stake. Mondale. This president will know what he's doing, and that's the difference between Gary Hart and Walter Mondale." The Mondale ad began airing after Hart stunned the former Vice-President in the '84 New Hampshire primary, a verdict that nearly pushed Mondale out of the race. But Mondale steadied himself with

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