1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries
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From February 20 to June 12, 1984, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1984 United States presidential election. Former Vice President Walter Mondale was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1984 Democratic National Convention held from July 16 to July 19, 1984, in San Francisco, California.
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Mondale won 38% of the popular vote, which meant 62% of Democratic voters voted against him when the non-Mondale vote was smooshed together. Gary Hart offered a new breed of Democratic policies that foreshadowed the presence of Bill Clinton eight years later, and Hart finished with 36% of the Democratic primary vote and he won 26 contests, most of which are in the whole region of New England and most of the Western United States, indicating that there were Democrats who are still mad at Jimmy Carter for the disastrous 1980 elections, so they took it on Carter's former Vice President Mondale.
In the general election after the Convention, Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro as his nominee for Vice President to win the female vote, and ran a liberal campaign on passing the Equal Rights Amendment, a nuclear freeze, continuing the New Deal and the Great Society, and criticized Reagan's economic policies. Mondale and Ferraro went on to lose to President Reagan and Vice President Bush in a landslide, losing all but Minnesota and Washington, D.C. for just 13 electoral votes and 40% of the nationwide popular vote.