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May 9, 2024 · United States presidential election of 1988, American presidential election held on Nov. 8, 1988, in which Republican George Bush defeated Democrat Michael Dukakis. The 1988 campaign featured an open contest on both the Republican and Democratic sides, as Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan was entering
Sep 19, 2017 · Announcing his candidacy in April 1987, he won the Democratic nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta on July 21, 1988. Dukakis faced Republican nominee Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush in one of the most negative campaigns to date.
Nov 10, 1988 · Politics. How Presidential Race Was Won-and Lost : Michael S. Dukakis. By BOB DROGIN. Nov. 10, 1988 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. BOSTON — When Michael S. Dukakis climbed into an M-1A1...
Apr 2, 2024 · Michael Dukakis, 1988. In April 1987 Dukakis declared his candidacy for the presidency. He emerged as the most popular candidate in the 1988 Democratic primaries and won his party’s nomination for president.
Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the Democrats nominated Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts. Bush capitalized on a good economy, a stable international stage (the U.S. was not involved in any wars or conflicts during this time), and on Reagan's popularity.
The 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis began when he announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party 's 1988 presidential nomination on March 16, 1987, in a speech in Boston . After winning the nomination, he became the Democratic Party's nominee at the party's convention in Atlanta, Georgia on July 21, 1988.
Nov 17, 2013 · Bennett was a 23-year-old political rookie in 1988 when he was sent to a General Dynamics facility in Sterling Heights, Mich., to organize a campaign stop for Democratic presidential nominee...
