Posts Tagged ‘Glenn’
1984
“Washington presidential politics was looking a lot like a Harlem Globetrotters vs Washington Generals game.”
Reagan vs Mondale
If Old Enough to Vote: um…Mondale (motivated by severe Reagan angst)
My Conscience: Nobody
My Conscience in the Democratic Primary: John Glenn, then Gary Hart
Impressions Heading into Election Day
Reagan: His world was more of a circus than I imagined it would be, though I respected him for coming out of the shooting as strongly as he did (but the incident unfortunately gave him great political leeway during his increasing mental decline).
Mondale: Reminded me of a library administrator you really don’t want to know anything about, and I knew that politically he was nothing more than a roadkill offering to landslide #2.
Reagan: 59% and 525 electoral
Mondale: 41% and 13 electoral
Looking Back: Mondale didn’t do a single thing to stop or slow the growing Republican machine and the momentum of their political philosophy now sweeping the populace. If anything, this limp candidacy offered up by the Democrats gave a “Bad News Bears” loser vibe to the party. Washington presidential politics was looking a lot like a Harlem Globetrotters vs Washington Generals game.
Election Map: Reagan’s election map was everything except Minnesota. I remember thinking that Mondale should be allowed to be president of Minnesota. Wouldn’t really affect the rest of the country much; winning just one state should make such an arrangement easy logistically.
