People Reject Reagan’s Ideas, Ferraro Says
Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine A. Ferraro said Friday that despite President Reagan’s landslide reelection, he did not receive a mandate for his conservative ideology.
Ferraro, speaking before the National Press Club, said that “the so-called conservatizing tidal wave we have all heard so much about . . . is a trickle.”
She added, “We see it in the books they cannot ban, in the bills they cannot pass . . . . The far-right intrusion in social policy is not what the American people want.”
Mondale’s Views Endorsed
In her travels around the country since the election, Ferraro said, people seem to agree far more with the views espoused by the 1984 Democratic ticket of Walter F. Mondale and herself than with Reagan, who carried 49 states.
“Why did we lose?” she asked. “What was clear was that Ronald Reagan won. He won not a mandate for his ideology, but personal approval and support for the economic status quo.”
The former New York congresswoman said that she would “love” to run in 1986 for the seat now held by U.S. Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato (R-N.Y.), but that she will not decide whether to enter that race until she confers with political advisers and her family.
She said she will announce her decision in November.
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