The Nation - News from Jan. 30, 1985

Democratic Party Chairman Charles T. Manatt said in Washington that the outcome of Geraldine A. Ferraro’s campaign for vice president demonstrated that a lot of Americans “are resistant to the idea of having a woman . . . as the nominee” for national office. Manatt said, “It seemed in the polling that I’ve studied, more are against that idea for the sake of the idea by itself than are for it, and that has to be overcome with the election of more and more women to mayorships and the Senate and other offices.” The Democratic presidential ticket of Walter F. Mondale and Ferraro carried only Minnesota and the District of Columbia.