Tackling the Teflon President

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Still, long shots have surprised before. In 1948 the Democratic candidate was widely dismissed as a sure loser. In 1984 the Democrats can only hope that the pundits are as wrong about Walter Mondale as they were about Harry Truman.

—By Evan Thomas.

Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and Christopher Ogden/Chicago, with other bureaus

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