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2004-06-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2004-06-04 7:02:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "That line actually generated more real cheers," says a bemused Florida Democratic Party official. "If this is the kind of response our campaign is getting elsewhere, weâre dead. This was awful. He was awful."

2004 is gonna be soo much fun.

Posted by badanov 2004-06-04 7:19:06 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-06-04 7:19:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this happening elsewhere? Is the national media carrying this guy this much?

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2004-06-04 8:33:25 AM|| [http://www.douglasdebono.com] 2004-06-04 8:33:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 the greatest revenge for all the bush-hate and bush-bashing is that the Donks will have to listen to this idiot's droning condesencion til November

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-04 9:33:04 AM|| 2004-06-04 9:33:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ..I'd like the Rantburgers of A Certain Age to remember back to the '84 elections, where the media was telling us home much everybody hated President Reagan, how bad the economy was, how assured Mondale was of victory...and how much it felt just the way it does now re the Democratic candidate's inability to fire anybody up.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-06-04 9:37:11 AM|| 2004-06-04 9:37:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't for his acceptance speech at the convention -- when the dimocrats realize how *farked* they really are......

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-04 9:41:22 AM|| 2004-06-04 9:41:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't get too excited, he's still just the "presumptive" nominee.

Posted by anon4716 2004-06-04 9:41:54 AM|| 2004-06-04 9:41:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "...how assured Mondale was of victory..."

Yes, I certainly remember that. Heh, heh.

I also remember that Mondale-- as dreary, depressing and lifeless as he was-- was an absolute firecracker compared to Kerry.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-06-04 10:38:13 AM|| 2004-06-04 10:38:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 One of Mondale's chief constituencies was "the sad".

Posted by eLarson 2004-06-04 11:07:19 AM|| 2004-06-04 11:07:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mike,
I can't remember any 'Mondale is a lock' coverage. I do remember, however, a Saturday night live skit taking place the night before the election where the Mondale HQ was celebrating and the candidate asked what the good news was. The campaign team said that the networks had agreed to use the same color for Lake Superior as for MN (thus about doubling the Mondale area on the election maps).

Posted by mhw 2004-06-04 11:38:40 AM|| 2004-06-04 11:38:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I remember when the same thing happened to Dan Quayle.

(For those disinclined to click, I was at a speech Quayle gave. Since it wasn't a political speech, we didn't know we were supposed to applaud at the end of every sentence. Halfway through it suddenly dawned on one of our officers that this was expected. If you don't click, you'll miss my theory as to Kerry's diabolical campaign strategy.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-06-04 12:43:07 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-06-04 12:43:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 If this is the kind of response our campaign is getting elsewhere, weâre dead. This was awful. He was awful."
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggghhh!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-04 1:12:09 PM|| 2004-06-04 1:12:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 mhw: I have an old copy of Harper's from 1984, which I saved because there was a good article in it on the prospects of a Soviet invasion of West Germany. (I played a lot of 1:285-scale Micro-Armor tank battles back then.) It includes a Nicholas Von Hoffman essay on how Reagan's fanatic conservatism and cruel disregard for the poor had all but assured that Fritz Mondale would be our 41st president. So there was at least some punditry in that direction back then.

Posted by Mike 2004-06-04 1:15:45 PM|| 2004-06-04 1:15:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 how assured Mondale was of victory...

Then reality must of sunk in because the final state-by-state poll on ABC had: Reagan 525, Mondale 3 (DC of course) too-close-to-call 10 (Mondale's home state of MN which he ended up winning by 2500 votes.)

I remembered looking at that and was surprised myself.

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-04 1:44:27 PM|| 2004-06-04 1:44:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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