Dukakis seems like a good candidate there.
Well he's a could-be candidate, but I don't know if he's any more likely than Hart, Gore, or Kennedy...
I think Dukakis would've been a very strong candidate. He was still very popular in Massachusetts when he left the Governor's mansion in 1991.
Dukakis was too conservative to win the nomination.
By today's standards perhaps, but remember than in 1988 the country hadn't gone through the leftward shift it went through during the Biden administration and Dukakis could have had a decent shot at the nomination if he ran a strong campaign.
As it says on the tin, who else could be the Democratic candidate in 1988?
What about Clinton? I mean sure, it helped that Ross Perot split the conservative and moderate vote in both '92 and '96...but Bill could've won in 1988, too.
Maybe Jesse Jackson?
Maybe Jesse Jackson?