In what presidential election year did the Democrats have the most pathetic primary candidate field?

[bluestateguy]

I'd have to go with 1984.

Mondale, Hart, Jackson, Glenn, and please stop me before I choke on my own laughter. :rofl:

[Nye Bevan]

1. I like Mondale better than Dukakis.

Mondale ran an honorable and honest campaign.

I guess Gore would have been a better candidate than Dukakis; not sure why he lost the primary.

[bluestateguy]

2. Mondale's honorable campaign

That will buy him a cup of coffee and a donut.

[Nye Bevan]

4. I stand by "honorable".

Honorable but losing.

[geardaddy]

12. Well, it's a source of pride here in MN that we haven't voted for a repub

since 1972

[Demeter]

3. Name a Year when we DIDN'T have a pathetic set of choices

Kennedy doesn't count. Nor Roosevelt.

Besides, they were from a different era, when it wasn't all beauty contests and fundraising...

[scheming daemons]

6. 2008. 2000. 1992.

Obama, Clinton, and Edwards covered the spectrum of Democratic politics and were strong candidates.


Likewise, Gore and Bradley in 2000.


Clinton and Tsongas were both policy-wonks who were solid.

[Demeter]

7. I'd take Carter over any of those.

[dennis4868]

9. Carter was a very

conservative democrat as president....people forget that...probably the most conservative dem president in 50-60 years.

[bluestateguy]

11. Indeed

I am really dumbfounded by the love affair for Carter here at DU.

[Lasher]

8. Corporatists.

I'm not satisfied with any of the viable candidates during any of those years.

[JVS]

5. 1992

[TheKentuckian]

10. Never approaching the current TeaPubliKlan offerings

Weak candidates is a whole different ballpark than a slate of fuckwits.