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His father Panos (1896–1979) was a Greek immigrant from Edremit in Turkey. [5] Panos Dukakis settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1912, and graduated from Harvard Medical School twelve years later, subsequently working as an obstetrician. Dukakis's mother Euterpe (née Boukis; 1903–2003) was born in Larissa, to Aromanian parents from ...
Michael Dukakis 1988 presidential campaign; P. Planned presidential transition of Michael Dukakis; W. John William Ward (professor)
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Paul Brountas, a longtime Dukakis aide, led the search for Dukakis's running mate. [1] The Dukakis–Bentsen ticket ultimately lost to the Bush–Quayle ticket in the general election. Bentsen simultaneously ran for reelection as Senator, and easily won, despite the Dukakis-Bentsen ticket's double-digit loss in Texas.
Dukakis’s approval rating in the state dropped from a stratospheric 79% in 1988 to less than 20% two years later. “The Dukakis saga is one of sadness and remorse,” Boston Globe journalist ...
Dukakis won the election in West Virginia with a 5-point margin. A rare event in any United States presidential election, West Virginia was home to a faithless elector in the election of 1988. During the assembly of the electoral college, one elector from West Virginia, Margarette Leach , cast her vote for the Democratic vice presidential ...
Dukakis, the sitting governor of Massachusetts, won his home state with 53.23% of the vote to Bush's 45.38%, a 7.85% margin of victory. This made it one of ten states (plus the District of Columbia) to vote for Dukakis, even though Bush won a convincing electoral victory nationwide.
Dukakis (Greek: Δουκάκης) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Dukakis (born John A. Chaffetz), actor, son of Kitty Dukakis and stepson of Michael Dukakis; Kitty Dukakis (Katharine D. Dukakis), author, wife of Michael Dukakis; Michael Dukakis, former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic Party presidential ...