tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post5076854453497907998..comments2024-01-03T15:30:05.586-05:00Comments on Home in the railroad earth: The Iowa Caucuses--A View from the Seventiessteve on the slow trainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-72356210048749558962007-03-15T23:08:00.000-04:002007-03-15T23:08:00.000-04:00I'm pretty sure "Second Place Mo" never actually w...I'm pretty sure "Second Place Mo" never actually won any primaries. He came close a couple of times. Having lived in Indiana since the election, I've always wondered whether Birch Bayh might have made it if he had gotten in the race earlier. <BR/><BR/>The debate I best remember during that year was the one between Walter Mondale and Bob Dole, and Dole's rant about "Democrat wars." Bob Dole was just not meant for national office.steve on the slow trainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257811143869341854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12159522.post-523432521600103082007-03-15T18:17:00.000-04:002007-03-15T18:17:00.000-04:00Didn't Mo Udall win some spring primaries, too?Tha...Didn't Mo Udall win some spring primaries, too?<BR/><BR/>That was a fun election year, espcially for an election with a sitting president running to keep his job. Both sides had fun primaries! Reagan almost made it interesting in North Carolina, as I recall. I remember Carter's constant refrain about Ford: "A good and decent man . . ."<BR/><BR/>I was a freshman in college at the time. Even at my age, I thought both Ford and Carter seemed like innocents during their debates. What a rebound from 13 years of Johnson and Nixon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com