Some discussion here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869598

I'll always remember Mondale as the straight man for Reagan, this is a pretty good indicator of why he lost to Reagan so badly:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJhCjMfRndk

Mondale proposed some interesting ideas during his Presidential campaign, in particular a national industrial policy, that I think we would have done well to take heed of.

"There you go again..."