Walter Mondale

When Ben Goodman of Kennebunk arrives at the University of Maine at Orono in the fall, he’s going to start working aggressively for Barack Obama from the get-go.

See below for the full interview on video, where Goodman talks about meeting George McGovern and Walter Mondale. “It’s amazing for me to see all these people who made history together in one place,” Goodman said. “It’s surreal.”

Orono is in the Second Congressional District, which is perceived by some as a battleground in the Presidential election.

Mikulski was influential in this barrier-breaking VP pickWhile it is a faint memory now, there was speculation up until the early summer of 1984 that then-Rep. Barbara Mikulski would make a good running mate for the Democratic presidential nominee.

She was one of three women House members considered for the job, the others being Pat Schroeder of Colorado and the female frontrunner, Geraldine Ferraro of New York. Outside Congress, two minor office-holders who would go on to national prominence -- San Francisco Mayor Diane Feinstein and Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards -- were also considered.

Back in 2005, when Al Franken was just a radio host and Barack Obama was just a U.S. Senator, he quipped with the rising star that he should parlay the momentum he earned as a keynoter at the 2004 Democratic National Convention "because we all remember President Mario Cuomo."

Would history have taken a different path if Hubert Humphrey had chosen San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto as his running mate? In late August 1968, just days before the Democratic National Convention opened in Chicago, Humphrey aides leaked the names of the leading candidates for the Vice Presidential nomination: Edmund Muskie, the Senator from Maine who was eventually picked ; Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma; former Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, the father of First Lady Maria Shriver; and Alioto.