michael dukakis

Last One for the Gipper Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term An Alternate History Timeline by Vidal This timeline is loosely inspired by the first American political timeline I read on this site: 1988: Defending the Reagan Revolution and a New Democratic Hope. The POD is much the same...

How does he handle the changes that come with the fall of the Soviet Union? Does Saddam Hussein Still invade Kuwait? If so how does Dukakis respond? How does Dukakis respond to the 1990-91 recession? Does he win re election in 1992?

OTL, in 1988, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts made a series of gaffes that led to him losing the 1988 Presidential Election to Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas. If those gaffes never happened or were slightly muted and Dukakis attacked Bush on Iran-Contra more, one...

Based on the threads about elections after a Kerry win in 2004 and elections after a Clinton win in 2016, how do you think American elections would've gone had Michael Dukakis been elected the 41st President in 1988?

Let’s say for one reason or another Lee Atwater never becomes involved in the 1988 presidential campaign. Maybe he dies early or Bush rejects him. Without Atwater, does Bush win?

So we know that Bush H.W. was elected in 1988 which was right around at the end of the Cold War and his administration led to the Gulf War in 1991 and to eventual defeat to Clinton in 1992 to where we get his son becoming president from 2000 and pretty much screwing the entire decade all because...

I've been considering doing a timeline about a successful assassination of Reagan in 1981 lately, and while I do have a variety of questions regarding an ATL 80's, one of my biggest is who would run and win in the 1988 election. Bush's VP (whoever it is, most likely either Jack Kemp, Howard...

What if Michael Dukakis decided to run again in 1992? The situation for Bush 41 was already different than it was in '88. He already lost support among conservatives. Dukakis who in OTL retired from politics instead sees the opportunity and decides to take a one final shot in this election, by...

OK, so Rev. Jesse Fucking Jackson. The best thing to come out of South Carolina since Mt. Rushmore. One of the U.S.'s best fucking Presidents, and not just because he became America's first AA leader just 24 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. He and VP Ted Kennedy (RIP) did some...

Suppose that Michael Dukakis, as originally expected, had defeated George H.W. Bush in 1988. This likely butterflies away a Bill Clinton administration. What would America be like without Bill Clinton's presidency?

The 1988 election was the closest Presidential contest since 1960. New York Governor Mario Cuomo defeated Vice-President George Bush by a margin of 280 to 258 in the electoral college, and only 49.6% to 49.4% in the popular vote. What could Bush have done differently to beat Cuomo in 1988?

In 1988, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis narrowly defeated Vice President George Bush. Powered by campaign manager John Sasso, Dukakis' aggressive candidacy assailed Bush's flip-flopping on social issues, Iran-Contra, and the high federal deficits under President Reagan. In contrast...

In 1988, Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis was initially leading Republican Vice President George HW Bush. However, after deciding to run a bland and vapid campaign that ignored Bush's attacks, as well as a series of blunders involving an infamous photo op and a diastrous debate performance...

So as we all know, Former Vice President George Bush, who served as Vice President from 1981-1989 has passed away this past Friday. Bush narrowly lost the 1988 Presidential election to then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, but what if he managed to defeat Dukakis? How would Bush have...

As we know, Michael Dukakis narrowly defeated then Vice President George Bush in the 1988 Presidential election. Internationally, President Dukakis is remembered for overseeing the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War two years later, working with the International...

Dukakis was nearly stopped by an aide at the place where he drove the tank. Dukakis gives his original planned debate answer about how his father was killed and brother died in a drunk driving accident and he still does not feel right about the death penalty. (perhaps the question doesn't...

I know that this site can often get annoyed at questions about convergent history, but I'll ask this anyway. If Gary Hart edges out Mondale for the Democratic nomination and likely goes on to still lose to Reagan by a decent margin, does the Democratic Leadership Council still come into play to...

Preface “DUKAKIS PICKS SENATOR GLENN OF OHIO, FORMER ASTRONAUT, FOR NO. 2 SPOT”-New York Times, 7/13/88 “... The announcement of Senator John Glenn came as no short surprise, with speculation having considered the Senator as one of the finalists. His moderate positions are arguably in line...

What if Vice President George HW Bush who was the favorite to win the 88 Republican Nomination who would go on to lose the republican nomination to Bob Dole who I thought ran a campaign that did a good job mixing being a moderate with being a conservative. What if Bush ran a better campaign and...

So... you're trying another TL? Yep. Didn't you end the first one after one post? Yes, but I have a thicker skin now. I replaced it with Adamantium. That is so tacky... Says you. So this one will actually happen then? Definitely. You say that now... It will happen, so sayeth Clint...