Whatever happened to Geraldine Ferraro?
scorpiogurl:
What is Geraldine Ferraro doing these days? Is she still involved in politics?
Does anyone think that the choice of a woman as Vice Presidential candidate in 1984 adversely affected the result for Mondale......or would Mondale have lost by a landslide with a male vice presidential candidate too?
PBrunsel:
She ran for Senate in 1992, lost the Democratic Primary, and now is a Fox News Contributor.
A18:
Mondale would have lost by a landslide with George Washington as a vice presidential candidate.
dazzleman:
I don't think Ferraro helped or hurt Mondale's chances in 1984.
Having said that, I think the manner in which she was selected reinforced negative stereotypes about the Democrats. Feminist groups publicly threatened Mondale that they wouldn't support him unless he picked a woman as his VP candidate. Mondale was reportedly furious because he had already planned to pick a woman, and now because of their public threats it appeared that he was giving in to blackmail from a special interest group.
The problem with Ferraro was that she was picked only because she was a woman. A male three-term congressman from a New York City borough would never have been considered, and everybody knew it.
Mondale had little to lose by rolling the dice and picking a woman for his VP candidate, but he didn't end up gaining anything either. I find it surprising that a woman hasn't been picked in the 20 years since Ferraro.
Joe Republic:
According to the bible that is Wikipedia, Ferraro published an autobiography in 1985, unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 1992 (as PBrunsel mentioned before), was a cohost on Crossfire from 1996-98, and currently serves as president of a management consulting firm. She was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer in 1998.
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