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Michael Dukakis was the 65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991.His running mate, Lloyd Bentsen, was a U.S. senator from Texas, and a member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance who had previously run for the Democratic nomination in 1976.
The 1988 Democratic National Convention was held at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 18 to 21, 1988, to select candidates for the 1988 presidential election. At the convention Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts was nominated for president and Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas for vice president .
The choice of Bentsen caused some backlash from Jesse Jackson, who had wanted to be chosen as the vice presidential nominee, and progressives such as Ralph Nader. [2] 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 ...
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 nominee Lloyd Bentsen as president, and Dukakis as the vice president ...
This was also the last time that a Republican presidential nominee won any of the state's 14 counties, namely Barnstable, Plymouth, and Worcester Counties. Dukakis won 11 counties in Massachusetts to Bush's three. Dukakis's strongest county was Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston, where he took 64.02% of the vote.
1988: Michael Dukakis: 1933 Governor MA 31 Jesse Jackson: 1941 Minister IL 14 Al Gore: 1948 Senator TN 7 Dick Gephardt: 1941 Representative MO 3 Paul Simon: 1928 Senator IL 1 Gary Hart: 1936 F. Senator: CO 0 Bruce Babbitt: 1938 F. Governor: AZ 0 1984: Walter Mondale: 1928 F. Vice President: MN 21 Gary Hart: 1936 Senator CO 26 Jesse Jackson ...
Ron DeSantis is running for president on his record as Florida governor. That doesn't always work out so well, as 1988 presidential nominee Michael Dukakis learned the hard way.
Bentsen won the election by a wide margin over Beau Boulter, at the same time that he and Michael Dukakis lost the presidential race, [20] with George Bush winning Texas with 56% of the vote in the state compared to 43% for Dukakis. [21] Bentsen's vote total in the senate election was reported to be at the time the highest vote total in any ...
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