re: #253 Ward Cleaver

It was a disaster, and it ended Mondale’s chances of defeating Norm Coleman.

Mondale lost every state except Minnesota in 1984. Thanks in part* to the Wellstone debacle, Mondale managed to add Minnesota to the list of states he’d lost, giving himself a complete collection.

*Democrat party leaders, who pressed Mondale to run because they saw him as some sort of elder party statesman, were completely out of touch with the way the rest of us see him and were quite surprised.