Former VP Walter Mondale Dies

(Minneapolis, MN)  --  Former Vice President and Minnesota man Walter Mondale is dead at the age of 93.  Mondale served under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.  Before that, he was a U.S. Senator for the state.  Mondale went on to run for president himself in the 1984 election, winning the Democratic nomination along with running mate Geraldine Ferraro.  The election was a landslide victory for Ronald Reagan, who won 49 out of 50 states.  Mondale's family said he passed away in his Minneapolis home, and there will be memorials for him in both Minnesota and Washington D.C.