But Reagan went on to win reelection in a landslide over Walter Mondale in 1984.
The Mondale- Ferraro ticket lost big time to President Ronald Reagan and George H.
Despite the historic nature of the race, her addition to Walter Mondale's ticket proved fruitless.
Reagan also beat Fritz Mondale who specifically called for tax increases during his losing campaign.
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If confirmed by the Senate, Foley would replace former Vice President Walter Mondale as ambassador.
By the time Walter Mondale conceded defeat in Minnesota, though, it was all over for the Democrats.
In August 1983, Reagan led Walter Mondale by one point, and went on to a landslide 59%-41% victory.
The "San Francisco Democrats" dominated the 1984 convention, but the party still nominated the establishment liberal Walter Mondale.
When Geraldine Ferraro was picked as Walter Mondale's running-mate, she had served in the House for three terms.
Our recent past finds that voters chose the charismatic Reagan over the much less so Carter and Mondale.
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Former Vice President WALTER MONDALE: When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad, Where's the beef?
Mondale was vice president during the Carter administration and served as a senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976.
Since we are in the middle of debate season, you might be interested in his observations on a Reagan-Mondale debate.
While many liberals may not like that, Mondale for one is urging his friends on the left to be patient.
Mondale clearly plans to rely heavily on high name recognition and sympathy for Paul Wellstone to squeak out a victory.
He had served as a Senate staffer to Walter Mondale back and then chief of staff when Mondale became vice president.
PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Republican Norm Coleman defeated Walter Mondale, a former vice president and senator who replaced the late Sen.
The new candidate is Walter Mondale, former vice-president to Jimmy Carter, and a man widely known and respected in the state.
Walter Mondale was not only a former senator but he was a former vice president when he ran for president in 1984.
Facing a new race against Mondale, Republicans have to choose between remaining positive and attacking Mondale as a figure of the past.
Gary Hart and Walter Mondale fighting it out in California in June.
It was stuffed with policy positions from the Walter Mondale campaign and painted with images of single mothers, underpaid workers and forgotten soldiers.
Overnight, the victory transformed Hart from an unknown candidate to the main challenger to Mondale, who went on to win the Democratic nomination.
Mr Mondale was no insurgent but rather a classic, boring, inside-the-Beltway, establishment candidate like John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt or even Al Gore.
That's one reason vice presidents like Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle and Al Gore often have trouble winning the presidency on their own.
Walter Mondale's picking Geraldine Ferraro took a hammer to America's glass ceiling, but helped little in his quixotic 1984 effort to topple Ronald Reagan.
Why have politicians started paying attention to a group that was once regarded as so dodgy that in 1984 Walter Mondale returned its donations?
He ran to the right of Mr Mondale in the primaries, appealed strongly to independents and would have given Ronald Reagan a much tougher race.
Reagan carried 49 out of the 50 states, with Mondale's only electoral votes coming from Minnesota -- his home state -- and the District of Columbia.
And he was a man also, I might say, in charge of vetting vice presidential candidates for Walter Mondale in '84 and John Kerry in '04.
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