That definition has not applied from (Vice President Walter) Mondale on
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Since the early 1800's, only one losing vice presidential candidates has ever won their party's nomination four years later — and that person, Walter Mondale, had already served as vice president for four years, giving him an institutional advantage that Palin would lack in 2012
I think Biden is positioned in many respects to play the role that Walter Mondale did (in the Carter administration), a sort of senior adviser and troubleshooter across the board
But if a series of national opinion polls are anything to go by, even Republicans privately admit that this Tuesday could be a blowout — not on the scales of what was witnessed in 1980 when Ronald Reagan trounced Walter Mondale, but something in the vicinity.
He has only one agenda - that's the president's agenda ... or should be.
He's got as many friends among Senate Republicans as he has in our own caucus
I was invited to every meeting the president had ... I read all the same materials he did, all the top-secret stuff.