The Carter / Mondale ticket defeated incumbent president Gerald Ford.

In the election, Mondale was defeated in a landslide by President Reagan, gaining electoral votes from only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

Mondale defeated Glenn for the nomination however, and he was left with $ 3 million in campaign debt for over 20 years before he was granted a reprieve by the Federal Election Commission.

Coleman narrowly defeated Mondale in the election, winning by just over 61, 000 votes out of over 2 million statewide.

He defeated Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election by a large landslide.

* November 4, 1980: United States elections: Reagan / Bush defeated Carter / Mondale.

Hollings ' wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by Walter Mondale, John Glenn and Gary Hart.

" Former Vice-President Walter Mondale also used the line against rival Senator Gary Hart in his bid for the Democratic nomination in the 1984 presidential campaign.

During primaries in the spring of 1984, when the commercial was at its height of popularity, Democratic candidate and former Vice President Walter Mondale used the phrase to sum up his arguments that program policies championed by his rival, Senator Gary Hart, were insubstantial, beginning with a March 11, 1984 televised debate prior to the New York and Pennsylvania primaries.

With Gary Eichten of Minnesota Public Radio, Paul co-moderated a memorable debate between United States Senate candidates Walter Mondale and Norm Coleman.

* February 20, 1984 – Walter Mondale ( 49 %), Gary Hart ( 17 %), George McGovern ( 10 %), Alan Cranston ( 7 %), John Glenn ( 4 %), Reubin Askew ( 3 %), and Jesse Jackson ( 2 %)

However, Gary Hart maintained that unpledged superdelegates that had previously claimed support for Mondale would shift to his side if he swept the Super Tuesday III primary.

A mainstay in presidential politics, Trippi has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Dick Gephardt, Jerry Brown and most recently John Edwards.

On November 4, 2002, the theater was the site of a memorable election-eve debate between United States Senate candidates Norm Coleman ( previously mayor of St. Paul ) and Walter Mondale ( formerly a U. S. Vice President ) and moderated by Gary Eichten of MPR and Paul Magers of local television station KARE.

* April 5 – 6, 1984: Democratic Party National Primary Debate with Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart speaking on both days.

Hart had moved his candidacy from dark horse to the lead over Mondale based on allegedly superficial similarities to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his repeated use of the phrase " new ideas ".

When Hart once again used the slogan in the debate, Mondale leaned forward and said, " When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad, ' Where's the beef ?'".

The Springfield Shopper headline from the day Lisa was born (" Mondale to Hart: Where's the beef?

The bridge is approximately one mile southeast of Pennsylvania route 272 and is 0. 5 miles ( 0. 8 km ) north of Pennsylvania Route 23 off Mondale Road on Hunsecker Road, just west of the community of Hunsecker.

After running Iowa for Mondale and winning the state by over 30 points Trippi went on to run the Pennsylvania primary effort for Mondale.

Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college ; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3, 761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.

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The surname " Mondale " comes from Mundal by Fjærland, in the Sogndal Commune of Norway.

Instead, Carter used frequent, informal meetings as a decision-making device, typically his Friday breakfasts, usually attended by the Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, the NSC Adviser, and the chief domestic adviser.

In 1972, Cottle County was the only one in Texas north of Maverick County ( Eagle Pass ) to have been won by George McGovern and Walter Mondale won a majority of the county's votes in 1984.

The county has been consistently Democrat in Presidential voting since 1976 and was among the counties to be carried by Walter Mondale in 1984.

) He became governor when Anderson resigned in 1976 to take the United States Senate seat vacated by Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the United States.

Gold ignored the warning and testified before a Congressional committee headed by Senator Walter Mondale.

", which grew so popular it was used in the 1984 presidential election by Walter Mondale.

Thousands of signatures were obtained from all over the nation, and the final approval was given by Citizens Stamp Committee member Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale.

" In its early years DSA opposed Republican presidential candidates by giving critical support to Democratic Party nominees like Walter Mondale in 1984.

After leaving WCCO and spending some time in Australia, Mondale became a morning sidekick on WLOL-FM in Minneapolis, where she remained until the station was bought by Minnesota Public Radio in 1991.

In 1996, Mondale was hired by CBS as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for " This Morning ".

* Mondale appeared in the short film Mirage ( 2004 ), directed by Sayer Frey and produced by Shelli Ainsworth.

In 1984, Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro whose nomination became a drag on the ticket due to repeated questions about her husband's finances.

President Jimmy Carter was the first President to formally give his Vice President, Walter Mondale, an office in the West Wing of the White House.

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Walter Mondale ran unsuccessfully for president in 1984, served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 – 96, and then sought unsuccessfully to return to the Senate in 2002.

Walter Mondale would have been entitled to the position had his 2002 Senate bid been successful.

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 % of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 % victory in 1972.

** Walter Mondale, U. S. Senator, Vice President and Presidential candidate

Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951.

Working as a lawyer in Minneapolis, Mondale was elected to the position of attorney general in 1960.

In 1976 Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Mondale as his vice presidential running mate in the forthcoming election.

In 1984, Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment and a reduction of U. S. public debt.

After the election, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ( 1986 – 93 ), and was credited with successes in Poland and Hungary.

President Bill Clinton appointed Mondale United States Ambassador to Japan in 1993 ; he retired in 1996.

Since then, Mondale has returned to working at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and remains active in the Democratic Party.