"What shocks me about neoliberalism is how utterly unapologetic it is about the misery it produces."

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72. Well neither do I

but that's what I read, for example

"Senator Jackson made a fateful decision not to compete in the early Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, which Jimmy Carter won after liberals split their votes among four other candidates. Though Jackson went on to win the Massachusetts and New York primaries, he was forced to quit the race on May 1 after losing the critical Pennsylvania primary to Carter by twelve percentage points. Carter then defeated Governor Wallace, his main conservative challenger, by a wide margin in the North Carolina primary, thus forcing Wallace to end his campaign."

...

"As Carter closed in on the nomination, an "ABC" (Anybody But Carter) movement started among Northern and Western liberal Democrats who worried that Carter's Southern upbringing would make him too conservative for the Democratic Party."

and also to appease liberals, Carter chose a liberal running mate.

"Carter then chose Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a liberal and political protégé of Hubert Humphrey, as his running mate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1976#Democratic_Party

Then there was the primary challenge from Kennedy. What was THAT about?

As for Mondale being a weak candidate, well what made him weak? As a former Vice President he would have national name recognition, far more than Carter or Clinton who sort of came out of nowhere.