Democratic VP nominees since 1960--who do you think actually helped the ticket the most?
1960: Lyndon Johnson 1964: Hubert Humphrey 1968: Edmund Muskie 1972: Sargent Shriver (replaced Tom Eagleton) 1976: Walter Mondale 1980: Walter Mondale 1984: Geraldine Ferarro 1988: Lloyd Bentsen 1992: Al Gore 1996: Al Gore 2000: Joe Lieberman 2004: John Edwards
8. He was decent - he capitalized on Dole's implosion in the VP debate.
But Mondale had no charisma to speak of and was such a bad candidate when running in his own right that if not for Carter, we'd be going "Walter who?".
17. Mondale carried Minnesota and Wisconsin for Carter.
Only two states west of the Mississippi and north of the Mason-Dixon Line went to Cater, Wisconsin and Minnesota (states that border one another). Without both those states, say hello to a Ford reelection!
16. Lieberman was a factor in the election being close enough to steal;
I'm certain a major part of Nader's vote total resulted from people turned off by someone who seemed little different from Bush (and, of course, events showed this perception to be accurate). He served as Exhibit A in Nader's contention that there was no great difference between the two parties.
Kennedy was NOT popular in the south. They went to the convention expecting Johnson to be the nominee, and if Kennedy hadn't picked Johnson as his running mate, he would never have won.
9. Johnson but that was back in the political machine days
The southern machine wouldn't mobilize for Kennedy without Johnson's help. These days political machines don't exist like they used to and what is left of them is far more national than local. Vice Presidential candidates aren't needed to mobilize the machinery anymore.
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 12:05 AM by Kurt_and_Hunter
The two closest election of the last century and both won by key VP choices.
Kennedy doesn't win without the solid south and Texas. Johnson helped throughout the south and carried Texas. (LBJ campaigned a lot in Texas and was very good at it.)
Gore doesn't win without Florida. When the state with the second largest Jewish population is won by a fraction of a percent by the side with the first Jew on a national ticket it's loopy not to attribute that to Lieberman.
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