True, true. I remember during the final week of the 1984 race, crowds heckled Walter Mondale with chants of “four more years, four more years, with fritz responding, “Four more days is all you got.” Did he really believe that as he stood on the precipice of losing 49 states? He probably did. There’s always hope that the polls are wrong and that things are going to go a different way.
I remember the media all clutched their pearls when George Bush said about an upcoming VP debate, “We’re gonna kick a little ass tonight.”
There were several quotes of Mondale before the election where he admitted he knew he would be crushed but his “compassion” made him proud.
He was not very “compassionate” towards taxpayers—that was for sure.