[wordweaver]

Is Walter Mondale the Statesman to lead Minnesota for the next SIX years???

The last full year Walter Mondale was in the the Senate:

Minnesotans couldn't e-mail him, because e-mail didn't exist. But they could write him a letter ... and mail it for 13 cents!

Leisure suits were still popular.

Rotary dial phones were common.

John Travolta was still 'Vinny Barbarino'

O.J. Simpson was merely a running back for the Buffalo Bills.

A new home cost $48,000.

A gallon of regular gas cost $.59 (remember regular gas?)

In California, two amateur electronics enthusiasts hung out in their garage tinkering on what would soon become the Apple Computer.

George Lucas' most famous movie was "American Graffiti," as "Star Wars" came out the next year.

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was still on the air --- as a regular weekly show.

Alan Page and Fran Tarkenton were still playing for the Minnesota Vikings.

Mike Tice was attending Central Islip High School in Long Island, N.Y. and Randy Moss was not yet born.

Walter Mondale is now 2 years older than Ronald Reagan when Mondale raised Reagan's age as an issue in the campaign -- and Senators serve for 6 years (not 2 or 4).

AND, DO YOU REMEMBER THE CARTER-MONDALE YEARS?

Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days...

Gasoline rationing and lines at the gas pump...

Double Digit Inflation...

Home Mortgage Rates at 18%...

Grain Embargos...

Doubled Social Security Payroll tax...

Massive Defense Cuts... and

A PLEDGE to raise your taxes that we all know would have been kept.

Times have changed -- has Walter Mondale???

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How do we get this information out to the voting public without coming off as sniping little whiners?

[Theodore R.]

No matter how much you reveal all these truths, I am afraid that the majority in MN are socialists -- they still see the "hope" of government "solutions" to all problems, even problems that government creates. People in MN believe in "democracy," particularly if they can "sock it to the {undefined} rich."

[Otta B Sleepin]

Times have changed -- has Walter Mondale???

Don't forget 8-track players! (really dating myself here)

[jocon307]

Q. "How do we get this information out to the voting public without coming off as sniping little whiners?"

A. By e-mailing it to everyone we know, who will e-mail it to everyone they know, etc, etc. I'm starting now (I hope you don't mind my borrowing your wonderful assemblage of facts), I live in New Jersey, but I do know one person, who knows three people who live in Minnesotta, and I figure if everyone who reads your post e-mails your list to everyone in their address book that, by way of Shanghi, Cape Town, Sydney, and outer Mongolia, every single person in Mn. with an e-mail address will have received three copies (at least) by Monday (at the latest)!

[Tony in Hawaii]

I understand Coleman has some TV commercials out which portray him playing touch football with his kids, and generally acting young and energetic. I guess he's hoping that viewers will draw the comparison on their own.

Here's hoping.