Bush vs Dukakis The 1988 Presidential Election
On November 8, 1988, Republican Presidential candidate Vice President George H. W. Bush was elected as the forty-first President of the United States of America. Bush defeated Democratic challenger Governor Michael Dukakis by a ratio of a bout six-to-five. 49 million people voted for Bush, netting him 426 electoral votes while 42 million voted for Dukakis getting him 112 electoral votes. Strangely, a man not even running for President received an electoral vote; Lloyd Bentsen (Democratic Vice President Nominee) received one electoral vote from the state of West Virginia. Bush's victory was also a victory for the Republican Party, but the Democrats received a similar victory in that they
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Hart pulled out of the race, but only briefly. Hart reentered the race in late December 1987, but he never recovered in the polls. Congressman Richard Gephardt started the primary season strong, with a decisive victory in Iowa. However, Gephardt ran into money because he spent the bulk of his funds in Iowa. He soon dropped out of the race. Senator Al Gore can attribute his lose to a weak start in the campaign. Gore lost many early primaries, but he rebounded somewhat when he won six states on Super Tuesday. Nevertheless, Gore lost because he failed to have a national base. The final blow to Gore's presidential aspirations came when he lost the New York Primary.
When Gore dropped out, two strong candidates were left, Jesse Jackson and Governor Dukakis. Jackson ran a strong campaign throughout the primary season. Jackson did not receive the Democratic bid for President because he lacked a sufficient number of delegates to be nominated. Many Democrats agreed with Jackson's views, but most did not consider him electable. Dukakis won the Democratic nomination because of his strong national base and solid funding. He was now able to tackle Vice President George Bush in the presidential election.
At the Republican National Convention, George Bush selected Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN) as his running mate. The selection of Quayle as a running mate undoubtedly hurt Bush because many people considered Quayle ill equipped for the job of Vice President. Governor
retracting his concession. Bush for some reason had a nasty attitude towards Gore and he brought up that his brother confirmed that the numbers were correct but they did not even notice or pretended not to notice the fact that there were 360,000 votes that were not counted and there were -16,000 votes for Gore. However there were other problems with the voting polls in Florida. On November 7th, 2000, Willie Steen a Navy Veteran went to cast his vote for president at the St. Francis Episcopal church in Tampa, Florida. Steen even brought his 10 year old son to the polls for his first time and they waited a half-hour until Steen finally reached a poll worker. Steen gave the poll worker his name and out of nowhere the worker said Steen can’t vote
He campaigned hard against the current president at the time, Gerald R. Ford and debated against him 3 times.
Entering the presidential election of 1844, Polk was the leader for the Democratic nomination for vice president. Both, Martin Van Buren for the Democrats and Henry Clay for the Whigs, would be presidential candidates. They
The democratic rival, William Jennings Bryan, lost by about 600,000 votes, one of the greatest electoral sweeps. After four years in office, McKinley was nominated again in 1900 as the republican candidate. McKinley accumulated 7,218,491 votes, compared to his rival who had gained 6,356,734 votes. McKinley used the same tactics from his previous election that allowed him to easily win the election again, and serve for another term as the President of the United States.
James K. Polk, denying the nod to former president Martin Van Buren, who was moderately antislavery. The Whigs nominated Henry Clay, who changed his stand on supporting the annexation of Texas during the campaign. James G. Birney headed the third party ticket for the Liberty Party and took enough votes from Clay-especially in New York State-to enable a Polk victory.
Calhoun also ran for president but failed in gaining support from the people. After failing he then ran for vice president and was elected to be the united states 7th vice president. In, 1832 Calhoun resigned from
In my opinion, Gore won the election of 2000 if there hadn’t been any interference, had also recounted all the votes, and also counted the 175,000 uncounted ballots. I believe that Gore would of won the election but didn't because of several mistakes and interventions the Republican party had in the election in Florida. One of the tremendous errors was caused by the lady in charge of writing the ballot, she had placed Al Gore’s name next to another candidate causing chaos between the voters who believed that they had voted for the other candidate instead of Al Gore. Therefore, causing Gore to lose votes.Another reason I believe he lost the election was because of the interference Katherine Harris had in the votes. She did this when she
-The Democratic nominee for the election of 1992 is Bill Clinton : governor of Arkansas
When the President miscarried his proposal in refuting President Gerald Ford in 1976 getting the Republican nomination previous California Governor Ronald Reagan once more pursued the presidency during 1980. As discussions dealing with the vice presidential nomination with prior President Ford dissolved, Ford patently wanted obligations of possible self-rule as vice president, Reagan then impressed many of his followers by looking towards to Bush to be his vice presidential choice for the campaign opposing President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale. The campaign incorporated only two presidential debates. President Carter back down from joining in on the first, seemingly due to the choice by the promoter, the League of Women
Wallace, in June 1964 decided to throw his hat in the ring for his first presidential election. He ran as a Democrat. His platform was that he opposed to the federal government gaining power over the states. He did carry one third of the votes in the primaries in Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin; but eventually he withdrew from the election.
C. Support for #2: The Democratic convention nominated JFK as its candidate for President on July 13, 1960 and he turned to Johnson to be his Vice Presidential candidate. Despite the controversy of his Catholic faith Kennedy defeated his Republican opponent Richard Nixon on November 8, 1960 (Dallek).
The economy was booming in 1984 with low gas prices, taxes, and inflation, along with the federal deficit being at little to no concern for the Americans. While another presidential election was underway the impact of this election would not be known until many years later. Our nation’s battle for the leader was between Ronald Reagan, former President, and Walter Mondale, former Vice President. As this election was extremely different and set many new records in politics it is important to know of its impact on its own time and today's, the results, and the outcomes. While this election was also very unique and set its own records it can still be compared to a few other elections.
The US Presidential Election of 2000 featured George W. Bush and Al Gore. It will go down in history as one of the most closest elections¡¦ in US history. It also goes down as one of the most controversial. The final decision was based on just a few hundred votes in Florida. The controversy began when the media prematurely declared the winner twice based solely on exit polls. They finally conceded that the Florida count was just too close to predict. It would take a month before the election was ultimately certified after numerous court challenges and vote recounts. Republican candidate George W. Bush was declared the winner of the Florida¡¦s 25 electoral votes. This was a victory by a razor thin margin of popular
Hillary Clinton had a larger popular vote lead than Al Gore when he ran against former United States president George Bush, but the Electoral College picks presidents. As voting continued to be counted, Hillary Clinton had also surpassed Al Gore's popular vote margin. Hillary Clinton's popular-vote lead was exactly 668,171 points over Donald Trump, according to the archives.gov Gore got 547,398 more votes than George W. Bush in 2000.Clinton's lead was only likely to grow as votes continued to be finalized. Democrats had now won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections,
Although it is often said that the President of the United States holds the most powerful office in the world, this does not mean that he is able to decide very much for himself. The American Constitution, which was adapted in 1789, clearly states the Separation of Powers. Thus, the president makes up only one third of the government, namely the executive branch. He is also controlled by a complex system of checks and balances, which makes sure that he (or any of the other branches, for that matter) does not become too powerful. We will now have a look at the different problems which may be facing a recently elected president, and then discuss to what extent his powers are important.