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Yes, cuz he was a nice man on tv. He was a very inatimate dildo in real life.

nah cant see how dutch just being a nice guy on tv would cut it coz tha race was for his second term as prez. no way he would win every single state cept his dem opponents home state based only on smoke & mirrors.

Mondale was a terrible candidate. His failure should not be interpreted as there having been overwhelming support for Reagan and his policies.

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I can't remember any other Western politician who, even in death, could still evoke such an outpouring of hatred and contempt - even though her death came several decades after she lost power.

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In terms of what?  Nixon did the same his second term, and it proves what?

The popular vote was like 58 mill to 38 mill, which is still a good margin, but who knew Fritz Mondale? He had never acted with a chimp.

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Reagan touted a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981–1982 as well as a perceived revival of national confidence and prestige.[2] Mondale's only electoral votes came from the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota, which he won by a mere 3,761 votes.

Reagan's 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate. Mondale's 13 electoral votes is also the second-fewest ever received by a second-place candidate, second only to Alf Landon's 8 in 1936. In the national popular vote, Reagan received 58.8% to Mondale's 40.6%. No candidate since then has managed to equal or surpass Reagan's 1984 electoral result. Also, no post-1984 Republican candidate has managed to match or better Reagan's electoral performance in the American Northeast, known to be a very Democratic region in modern times.

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It's so lovely to see the left showing off their superior compassion and loving character.

We wait till their dead, the right does it while they still live.

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Your first link was funny, but if you are actually arguing that people should only have opinions on things they experienced first hand then I wasted my time with the old history degree didn't I? Or are you suggesting that the left live in the past? If that is the case I would actually be inclined to agree with you. Blaming Thatcher does nothing about the present reality.

ETA: the man on the left of that photo looks like he could remember Atlee being in power, never mind Thatcher.

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Should I give the article you linked the same cred I gave to other articles in the DailyMash's Politics section, especially the "MPs to be paid in food stamps" and the "Britons reclassified as snails" articles?

Actually re-classifying Brits as 'snails' mightn't be wacky as it sounds. It could lead to a whole new industry exporting Brits to France, where snails are highly valued as gastronomic delights.

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Reagan touted a strong economic recovery ..... as well as a perceived revival of national confidence and prestige.

Yeah, he touted.  it was percieved, I was there and I was voting age.

That is when television became more important than news, and more important than policies in electing presidents.  Must be true, it was on tv.

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I was there as well and simply put a lot of Democrats stayed home.

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Moonie, I am not overly happy with the cost of the funeral, but whatever else Thatcher did inspire women to break the mould and enter male dominated management jobs.