1988 United States presidential election | Wikipedia audio article
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1988 United States presidential election


00:02:01 1 Republican Party nomination
00:02:55 1.1 Candidates gallery
00:04:32 2 Democratic Party nomination
00:09:20 2.1 Primaries
00:11:23 2.2 Democratic Convention
00:12:42 3 Other nominations
00:12:51 3.1 Libertarian Party
00:13:31 3.2 New Alliance Party
00:14:00 3.3 Socialist Party
00:14:19 3.4 Populist Party
00:14:46 3.5 Rhinoceros Party
00:15:24 4 General election
00:15:33 4.1 Campaign
00:21:59 4.2 Polling
00:22:07 4.3 Results
00:27:10 5 Statistics
00:28:16 5.1 Results by state
00:28:26 5.2 Close states
00:29:55 6 Voter demographics
00:30:13 7 See also



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The United States presidential election of 1988 was the 51st quadrennial United States presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. Incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, the Republican nominee, defeated Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. The 1988 election is the only election since 1948 in which either major party won a third straight presidential election.
Incumbent President Ronald Reagan was ineligible to seek a third term, due to term limits established by the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. With Reagan's support, Bush entered the 1988 Republican primaries as the front-runner. He defeated Senator Bob Dole and televangelist Pat Robertson to win the nomination, and selected Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate. Dukakis won the 1988 Democratic primaries after Democratic leaders such as Gary Hart and Ted Kennedy withdrew or declined to run. He selected Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas – who had defeated Bush in a U.S. Senate race 18 years earlier – as his running mate.
Running an aggressive campaign, Bush concentrated on the economy and continuing Reagan's policies. He attacked Dukakis as an elitist "Massachusetts liberal", and Dukakis appeared to fail to respond effectively to Bush's criticism, even though Bush himself was born in Massachusetts, attended Yale University, and was a member of the exclusive Skull and Bones society. Despite Dukakis's initial lead, Bush pulled ahead in opinion polling conducted in September and won by a substantial margin in both the popular and electoral vote. No candidate since 1988 has managed to equal or surpass Bush's share of the electoral or popular vote. Dukakis won 45.6% of the popular vote and carried ten states and Washington, D.C. Bush became the first sitting vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren in 1836.