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[greatlaurel]

45. Facts are pesky things, which is why the GOP hates facts. Your premise of the OP is without merit.

From Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale
"Mondale ran a liberal campaign, supporting a nuclear freeze and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). He spoke against Reagan's economic policies and in support of reducing federal budget deficits." (I bolded the text for emphasis)

Mondale was not elected because Reagan ran an incredibly racist campaign pushing such ideas as poor people are living high off the hog while middle class were paying for all the welfare programs and the evil EPA was destroying middle class jobs. The middle classes were getting the first taste of the neocon economic policies that are still being used today to rob the 99% for the benefit of the 1%. In addition, the middle class was getting hit hard thanks to the economic impact of having to pay the Vietnam war debt. The Democrats could not run on that issue ,as the war was considered a Democrat war. Reagan's campaigns were classic divide and conquer by cleverly conflating protections for minorities, women, and the poor with taking money from the middle class to support such protections. Middle class voters were fooled into voting against their interests by being convinced "those people" were getting benefits they did not deserve.

Mondale's loss had nothing to do with him being too centrist and everything to do with Reagan running an incredibly effective propaganda campaign based on appealing to ordinary Americans' racism and class bigotry and appealing to American male's insecurities concerning women's rights. The right wing was already in possession of much of the American main stream media, who all clearly worshiped Reagan, thanks to his deficit spending that enriched Wall Street and defense contractors, so there was no discussion about the damage Reagan's deficit spending would cause or the horrendous failures of all his other policies.

Nice try on the divide and conquer effort. Like the Rev says, we gotcha.