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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 ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1988. The Republican Party's ticket of incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush and Indiana senator Dan Quayle defeated the Democratic ticket of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen.
The presidential debate didn't generate an immortal line — think Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle in 1988: "Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy" — though Trump did echo Ronald Reagan's dismissive ...
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 ...
Another damaging moment opened the second presidential debate in 1988, when CNN anchor Bernard Shaw pressed Democrat Michael Dukakis, the governor of Massachusetts, about his opposition to capital ...