In hindsight:
1. Mondale should have selected a Southern Running Mate. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) or Gov. Bob Graham (D-FL) would have been good choices. Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC) would have been my top pick.
2. Mondale should NEVER have said he would raise taxes; that KILLED him. And no one believed that the Democratic Party was serious about deficit reduction.
3. Mondale should have addressed the developing Farm issues with "The Marshall Plan for the Family Farm", developing policy initiatives to make family farms more viable.
4. Mondale should have ran as a flag-waving Union man, unabashedly for labor, and he should have taken the offensive to show Reagan as the enemy of the union man and the enemy of working folks.
He should have avoided social liberalism like the plague.
Mondale was a horrible candidate who ran a horrible campaign. I don't think my plan would have helped much.
Didn't he...?
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