Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN WALTER F. Mondale finally picks his running mate, one hopes this week, he will bring to a merciful close one of the saddest charades in recent political memory. Never before has a politician on the brink of such high office debased himself more before his supporters...
...Jesse Jackson. But the worries of the presumptive nominee are hardly over. Hart still plans to continue his own candidacy, a muted challenge that could force Mondale to offer him the second spot on the ticket. At the same time, the chorus urging Mondale to select a woman running mate has unexpectedly swelled; what seemed a few weeks ago a daring option for Mondale now threatens to foreclose any other option...
...vice-presidential nomination for Hart had not been discussed. Perhaps not, but Hart's advisers have become unanimous in their belief that the Colorado Senator should accept the position if offered . Hart flashed his wild card the next day when asked how he might choose his running mate. Answered Hart mischievously: "I can choose a woman, and I can announce my choice before the convention...
That would certainly put Mondale in a bind. Struggling to keep his own running-mate options open, he continued to hold his well-publicized Veepstakes interviews...
...idea like no other issue since the struggle to pass the ERA. "All of a sudden women are thinking, 'My God, we're going to fight for it,' " says Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women. The case for a female running mate, supporters argue, is practical as well as ideological. Says Kathy Wilson, president of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Show me someone who could help beat Reagan more than a woman, and I'll drop this argument...