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Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa’s Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart’s 16%, the media spotlight nonetheless immediately focuse
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Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa’s Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart’s 16%, the media spotlight nonetheless immediately focuse
Forty years ago, when Walter Mondale won 49% in Iowa’s Democratic caucuses, far ahead of Gary Hart’s 16%, the media spotlight nonetheless immediately focused. With the help of a brilliant spot by consultant Ray Strother showing him tossing a hatchet into a tree, Hart went on to win the New Hampshire primary eight days later, […]
The prospects for DeSantis and Haley seem dismal compared to those of Hart in 1984.
One reason is that Democratic voters' ties to Mondale then were not nearly so strong or emotional as Republican voters' ties to Mr. Trump today.