came in obviously george h.w. bush was famously said i think your supply side economics are voodoo economics and alienated the whole reagan team. it was a political retort at the time. as you recall he was not president reagan s first choice at vice president. then nominee republican nominee reagan was looking back to gerald ford. it was only that yeah, he is a moderate and will help with the idea that reagan is portrayed in the media as radically right to bring george bush on. it proved effective political strategy because bush won handily in 80 and overwhelmingly in 84 versus mondale. i think they were very different people at that point. one is the g.e. spokesman, the actor, larger than life. if he walked into the studio now we would be like there he is. when george h.w. bush walks in the room it is more like there is my pal, a very smart policy
okay. we have two tries. 0-2. then there s 1984. at this point the incumbent president is ronald reagan and his challenger is the mighty, mighty walter mondale. you can call him fritz. you know, we look back at reagan versus mondale in 1984 as reagan having dominated mondale because he did beat him so soundly when it came to election day. we re not talking about election day. we re talking about that first debate and in terms of that first debate it was completely the opposite of the way it was on election day. watch. good evening, i m tom brokaw with nbc nightly news. a lot of people in most of the instant polls believe walter mondale won an important battle against president reagan last night. in this corner at a feisty 170 pounds, the new heavyweight debater of the world at a tumultuous rally mondale claimed the debate breathed new life into his campaign. today we have a brand new race.
presidents are [ ding ] 0-2. okay. we have two tries. 0-2. then there s 1984. at this point the incumbent president is ronald reagan and his challenger is the mighty, mighty walter mondale. you can call him fritz. you know, we look back at reagan versus mondale in 1984 as reagan having dominated mondale because he did beat him so soundly when it came to election day. we re not talking about election day. we re talking about that first debate and in terms of that first debate it was completely the opposite of the way it was on election day. watch. good evening, i m tom brokaw with nbc nightly news. a lot of people in most of the instant polls believe walter mondale won an important battle against president reagan last night. in this corner at a feisty 170 pounds, the new heavyweight debater of the world at a tumultuous rally mondale claimed the debate breathed new
0-2. then there s 1984. at this point the incumbent president is ronald reagan and his challenger is the mighty, mighty walter mondale. you can call him fritz. you know, we look back at reagan versus mondale in 1984 as reagan having dominated mondale because he did beat him so soundly when it came to election day. we re not talking about election day. we re talking about that first debate and in terms of that first debate it was completely the opposite of the way it was on election day. watch. good evening, i m tom brokaw with nbc nightly news. a lot of people in most of the instant polls believe walter mondale won an important battle against president reagan last night. in this corner at a feisty 170 pounds, the new heavyweight debater of the world at a tumultuous rally mondale claimed the debate breathed new life into his campaign. today we have a brand new