Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Mondale is defeated in November, one thing should be made clear. His defeat will occur not because he chose a woman running mate, but in spite of his putting a woman on the ticket...
Ferraro has set back the image of women at least 20 years. She was taken on as running mate to be the cheerleader. I would call the ticket Walter Mundane...
...obvious Democratic ticket for 1988: Ferraro-Feinstein...
...only glitch in their tour came at the end, when Bert Lance, the Georgia politico who was expected to help the Democratic ticket in the South, announced he was resigning his three-week-old job as general chairman of the campaign. On the eve of the party's convention last month, Mondale had tapped Jimmy Carter's former Budget Director, who had been indicted and then cleared of charges of bank fraud, to head the Democratic National Committee. When a storm of protest blew up over the choice, Lance was shifted to an ill-defined political post...
...well the Democratic ticket will do in the South will be the turnout among blacks, whose registration has risen 13% since 1982. Jesse Jackson's willingness to get those voters to the polls remains uncertain. When Jackson criticized Ferraro for not appointing more blacks to her campaign staff, she struck back strongly, calling him "an actor" who "should know better." Jackson later announced he was abandoning a hastily devised plan to run for the Senate from South Carolina and instead would devote his energies to Mondale and Ferraro...