These days in the 2016 election process the media is scrambling to find ways to report on the rise of insurgent candidates like Sanders and Trump…..they try to explain it a way…….but they only have to look back at American political history…..look back to the candidacy of McGovern or Mondale for the Dems…..

As Bernie Sanders rises, many Democrats worry that he is the 2016 version of George McGovern.  For example, a February 14 NY Times story on the upcoming Nevada caucuses ended with a quote from a voter who “knocked on doors for McGovern” but who is now “scared of Bernie being the nominee.”

But while the Sanders/McGovern parallels are being debated, absent is a discussion of what happens electorally when Democrats pick the supposedly politically safe choice.  That’s what occurred in 1984, when Democrats picked Walter Mondale as their nominee over the new politics agenda of Gary Hart.

Many saw the pre-scandal Gary Hart as not only a bolder choice, but a politically stronger one. Mondale had the baggage of the Carter years (he was Vice-President), yet his long tenure in Washington DC made him the politically safe choice.

Source: McGovern and Mondale: Lessons for 2016 – LA Progressive

You are welcome for the historical perspective…….

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