Why was Mondale even considered a candidate in 1984?

[Badger]

He was a liberal with all the party organization, labor, and other liberal interest groups sewn up the minute Ted Kennedy bowed out. The fact his expected major primary rival, John Glenn, ran an awful campaign that utterly imploded tells just what an utterly gargantuan feat Hart had to upset him in the marathon nomination race. The fact Hart was a handful of ill-timed gaffes away from possibly doing so also says what an empty suit, ableit a decent person, Mondale was.