gorkay
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« on: December 29, 2007, 03:30:04 PM » |
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No, I'm afraid not. Your opinion of Mondale is skewed by his 1984 run, as is your characterization of him (he was never an "ultra liberal" nor by any stretch of the imagination a "leftist"). Besides which, the electorate was much less conservative in 1976, and Ford's popularity was pretty low. In fact, I think Mondale may well have won in 1976 (he thought about running for the nomination that year, incidentally, but decided against it before any of the primaries started); '76 was a very favorable year for the Democrats. They had made big gains in Congress in '74, and I've always thought that just about any Democratic candidate would have won that year, most of them by a larger margin than Carter did.
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