[HamiltonJay]

Nah, Mondale didn’t lose because he was a radical liberal... He just lost because Reagan was unstoppable.

Trump is going to win by the biggest landslide since Reagan, thats for sure, but the dems have gone off the liberal cliff, just like they did with McGovern.

The McGovern election is more apropos for what the Dems are doing now than Mondale.

[chimera]

Every election seems to have its own dynamic. McGovern's was a massive repudiation of his surrender-at-all-costs "solution" to the Vietnam War. Ordinary folks like me could not stomach the though of a President going to Hanoi and begging on his knees for the release of our POWs. Mondale got wiped out because people saw the contrast between his dour, dull, pessimistic approach and Reagan's unquenchable optimism and personal charisma.

What will it be in 2020? Seems like the 'Rats have two ways to go, neither of which is all that appealing. They can go with a young, untested super-liberal socialist. Or they can go with a strong liberal who has been there, Biden has been in elective government for almost 45 year. Bernie Sanders likely has little experience outraise of elective office.