presidential election

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Walter Mondale's Campaign Did Accomplish Something (Ask Joe Biden's Future Running Mate)

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  Walter Mondale's choice of Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate in 1984 opened the major parties' general election tickets to women for the first time. Will Joe Biden's campaign fulfill that promise this year?

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4/14/2020
  

  Biden Needs a History-Making Women's Agenda in Response to COVID

  The 2018 midterms and 2020 primaries showed just how critical the turnout of women—Democrat, independent and moderate Republican will be this November.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  9/12/19
  

  Why do we keep talking about Joe Biden's age?

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Age is seen as a weakness that we unfairly ascribe to millions of people. And that prejudice enfeebles all of us, no matter how old we are.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/16/19
  

  Here’s How Democratic Presidential Contenders Should (Not) Talk About Russia

  by David S. Fogleson

  Candidates gearing up for 2020 may be blazing new trails on domestic issues, but when it comes to engagement with Russia, they haven’t moved beyond the counterproductive status quo.