Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party had any sense, it would discard the presidential contenders it now has and run a woman for that office. Once nominated, she could placate the few conservatives left in the Democratic camp by naming Walter Mondale, Gary Hart or Jesse Jackson as her vice-presidential running mate. Such an unorthodox ticket would probably stand no less chance than the one that is now being considered...
Mondale seeks a running mate and party unity...
Voter reaction to a candidate's choice for Veep can be measurably negative. The revelation in 1972 that George McGovern's little-known running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had undergone electroshock therapy doomed whatever tiny chance of success the Democrats had. In the wake of the furor, which resulted in Eagleton's being replaced by Sargent Shriver, one poll showed confidence in McGovern plummeting by 25%. In 1952 Richard Nixon's alleged association with a political slush fund became an embarrassment for Dwight Eisenhower, though not a fatal one. More recently, Senator Robert Dole was judged...
Some strategists think that the selection of a Vice President should be viewed as an exercise in damage control. Reason: polls often show that candidates score higher ratings on their own than with any likely running mate. Says Ted Van Dyk, an aide to Hubert Humphrey in 1968: "Almost nobody helps...
...Senator Edmund Muskie, did help the ticket in one way: he delivered his home state of Maine to the Democrats for only the third time in this century. Traditionally, the ability to serve up his own state has been the minimal campaign boost expected of a running mate, and sometimes the only one: when Chester Arthur ran for Veep in 1880 on a ticket headed by James Garfield, he did not venture out of New York for the entire campaign-and carried it. In 1960, Pollster Louis Harris found that Lyndon Johnson added a crucial 4 percentage points to John...