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As a volunteer for the local Democratic Party here in north Texas, during my last meeting with fellow Hillary 2016 folks, I recently met with a guy who worked with the Dukakis campaign in 1988.....and he mentioned that the good Governor had considered going on a tank ride earlier that year, but called it off at the last minute(sounds funny, right?). But what if he had? Dukakis's victory was fairly narrow in '88; if he hadn't won over Iowa or Ohio, Bush would've been President instead, and he decided not to run again in '92, anyway, as Arkansas governor Bill Clinton was rather more popular.

And how would a Bush victory affect the 1992 and '96 elections? Neither Pete Wilson or Bob Dole were exactly terribly good candidates, and Ross Perot was able to capitalize on moderates' increasing dissatisfaction with the two-party system, thus handing a significant margin of victory to Clinton in both years.
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