Mondale/Wellstone

[low_delta]

Before the funeral, Mondale had an eight point lead. He lost by two, I think. Apparently the tackiness of the funeral turned the voters against the Democrats. There are different ways of looking at this. You could say that propriety is important to Minnesotans. You could also say that issues are unimportant to Minnesotans. I think it was more a matter of the funeral being the excuse that conservatives used to justify their voting against popular opinion.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, also, people didn't want a Senator who did no campaigning and whose only merit was his name. As much as I liked Mondale when he was running for President, I SINCERELY wish the Democrats had BOTH

1. appointed someone young and vibrant, preferrably a woman

and

2. requested that the election be moved back at least several months, to give the new candidate time to campaign.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Wellstone had a great follwing of people who are young enough to think of Mondale as a fossil... He dropped out of political life while most college students were in third grade... It's also possible that the polls were wrong. I think the ads attacking Wellstone before the crash were 100x tackier than the "Funerally."

My former Gov. Jesse "the Baby" Ventura made a real big deal about how shocked he was that the DFL would stoop so low as to turn the memorial into a political rally, but the DFL didn't pick the speakers or the venue and they sure as hell didn't script any of it... If Sheila Wellstone had planned it, it would have been a much classier event; unfortunately she was on the same plane and it was left up to Wellstone's sons, who apparently are more political than religious (surprise surprise)... Some people find solace in stale words read out of the Bible, others in the fellowship of community politics... Wellstone was a rare blend of both these traditions...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's also possible that the polls were wrong.

I think that's a big part of what happened all over the country. The silent majority voted.

just looking at the last sentence

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

i believe it's your responsibility to vote your conscience and not along with "popular opinion"

and that is regardless of your party affiliation, etc.

Re: just looking at the last sentence

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Right, but what I meant was, that is the *excuse* those people used. They weren't going to vote for Mondale, and the funerally just pissed them off so that's what they said was the reason.