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26 Mar 2011, 2:35 pm

First Female Vice Presidential Candidate Ferraro Dies

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Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died Saturday. She was 75.

Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was being treated for blood cancer. She died just before 10 a.m., said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a family friend who worked for Ferraro in her 1998 Senate bid and was acting as a spokeswoman for the family.

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An obscure Queens, N.Y., congresswoman, Ferraro catapulted to national prominence at the 1984 Democratic convention when she was chosen by presidential nominee Walter Mondale to join his ticket against incumbents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.....


It was a simpler world back then...


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26 Mar 2011, 11:51 pm

I can still remember how excited my Mom was when Ferraro ran for VP.
R.I.P. Geraldine.

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26 Mar 2011, 11:58 pm

blood cancer sucks. one of the less pleasant ways to die. she had my vote, back in the day.



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27 Mar 2011, 1:53 am

I didn't care for her politics, but I am saddened by her death.



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27 Mar 2011, 4:10 am

auntblabby wrote:
blood cancer sucks. one of the less pleasant ways to die. she had my vote, back in the day.


She would never have had my vote. Why? She was married to the mob. Even so, I would not wish her fate on anyone who was remotely civilized.

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27 Mar 2011, 2:12 pm

ruveyn wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
blood cancer sucks. one of the less pleasant ways to die. she had my vote, back in the day.


She would never have had my vote. Why? She was married to the mob. Even so, I would not wish her fate on anyone who was remotely civilized.

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I recall how the Republicans claimed her father was mobbed up, though this was refuted. I've never heard any charge that her husband was an organized crime associate.

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