YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 1 - Anybody's Race

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In our first episode of our series on the 1988 Presidential Election: a cornfield prognosticator, men of the cloth, a young upstart, a senator with big glasses, a casino king, a prince of the polls and more than a few watching from the outside, thinking about maybe getting in. Who will succeed Reagan? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	All you need is a few minutes to start your day off with something historic
0:09.0	when you listen to the This Day in History podcast.
0:13.0	Every day there's a new episode for you to listen and learn about what happened that day way back when.
0:18.0	So listen and subscribe to this day in history wherever you get your podcasts. That's this day in history wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.7	That's this day in history wherever you get your podcasts. He didn't just lose. He got beat. What's worse? He knew he was going to get beat.
0:38.6	What's worse? He knew he was going to get beat. He wrote in his diary right before the Iowa
0:45.2	Caucasus. We are going to get beat. And yet there was nothing that Vice
0:52.2	President Bush could do about any of it.
0:54.6	Nervous, gloom and doom.
0:58.0	We are going to get beat.
0:59.8	It's just a question of how badly.
1:04.3	The answer was very, very badly.
1:06.2	The debate starting to liven up a little.
1:08.0	I thought I was going to die on the vine, but in any of that...
1:10.2	Don't cry by what you don't have, use what you got.
1:14.0	They need for what I am.
1:16.0	The Republican candidate for president of the United States.
1:20.0	Mike Dukakis and Paul Simon have been attacking Dick Gepart.
1:24.4	I'm Pete DuPont. There is a solution.
1:27.0	We went for the gold and we want it.
1:29.0	We filled this tent with 10,000 hungry mosquitoes and biting flies.
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