Hillary Clinton at the Festhalle Barn at the Amana Colonies, Iowa, on November 6, 2007
A few days after her roughest night as a candidate the Oct. 30 Democratic presidential debate Hillary Clinton could be found ambling along a spectacular bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in a town called Clinton, Iowa, with former Vice President Walter Mondale, a ghost of Democratic disasters past. It was the photo op for an endorsement that seemed a potential kiss of death. Mondale is a smart and decent man, but he ran the worst sort of cautious front-runner campaign for the nomination in 1984, was nearly upended by the younger, more dynamic Gary Hart in the...
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