That was also the same year that Mondale came out with the "where's the beef" line during the primary debates with Gary Hart (from Colorado). When I applied to Rice, I think I wrote the free-form essay on the application about the Hart campaign. Hart was a defense Hawk, social liberal, but it's hard for me to characterize his economic tendencies in retrospect. He championed the consumption tax back in the 80s ... he may have been among the Concord Coalition types if he didn't have a political meltdown. Hart's biggest legacy may have been as a lesson to Bill Clinton to be discrete.