Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tumbled, slow motion, down an interminable flight of stairs." That cover story, applauding the "bold aplomb" that took Ferraro from School Teacher to Assistant Prosecutor to prominent national Politician, went on to say, "It could, if the timing and political climate were precisely right, put her on the Democratic ticket in July." While taking due notice of her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy, TIME concluded, "People who know Ferraro would not lose any sleep if she were next in line for the presidency...
...what happened mid-day last Thursday in the Minnesota statehouse? If this were Great Britain or India, whose pulse would race? But here? It couldn't happen here. The professionals think they can explain it. As Mondale's running mate, Geraldine Ferraro doesn't balance the ticket philosophically, being liberal, pro-union and all, but it may help that she is Catholic, urban and ethnic, though that might hurt the Southern strategy. A sort of Sunbelt-Frostbelt standoff, if you get the drift, complicated by the blue-collar factor. Of course, the gender...
...woman national candidate on the female vote, the male vote, the South, the West, urban blue-collar workers, Black and Hispanic voters?have to be done for the very first time. And assuredly not for the last time; those calculations enter into the making of every presidential election ticket from...
Mondale and his advisers soon dropped the whole idea of selecting a candidate on the traditional basis of ticket-balancing geography. He needed much more than a Vice President who could deliver the electoral votes of a home state. When a Gallup poll showed Reagan 19 points ahead, the impulse to go for broke was reinforced. Jim Johnson held several senior staff meetings in Washington the weekend of June 27-28. All the participants either were eager to see a woman selected or were open-minded...
Ferraro, like Feinstein, seemed unafraid of taking on the vice-presidential race, even with the risk that she might be blamed if the ticket failed. Mondale's advisers were impressed by both women and soon became partisans of one or the other...