YOU BREAK EVERYBODY'S BACK: The 1988 Presidential Election - Part 6, Theoretical Dukakis

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In our final episode of our six-part series on the 1988 Presidential Election, Vice President Bush has a lead over Mike Dukakis. It's close enough for a comeback though, and more than a few have suggestions for a different Dukakis message. A series of mistakes will doom the campaign. And that is the traditional way the story is told. But we suggest there they may been an invisible election going on under the surface. 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. Mike Jukakis is playing the trumpet.
0:39.0	Mike Jukakis is playing the trumpet. The brick wall of an Ohio factory behind him. Employees, collective
0:49.6	owners of this model factory in front of him.
0:54.0	The song he plays is Happy Days are Here Again.
0:59.0	But it doesn't feel like that's the mood.
1:02.0	As the chief executive is its balance ten budgets. But it doesn't feel like that's the mood.
1:02.8	As the chief executive is its balance 10 budgets in the world
1:05.2	and had to make those tough decisions and those tough choices.
1:07.8	Once up in the polls, he was now down six points. Yet he played and the accompanying speech would speak to
1:16.2	economic opportunity the American dream, the rewards of hard work.
1:20.8	We come up with a solid plan with the Congress for new Democrat jazz.
1:27.0	Some right here in Ohio want him to change the tune. The Ohio Democratic Party, according to reporting from Joel Klein, has done its own polls. Unsanctioned by Boston.
1:49.7	When they present the Dukakis from the Convention, the Dukakis they see before him today, opportunity free trade, tough on crime, all for education. He loses the Bush.
2:01.0	And so they create a second decocass, a theoretical decocass. This candidate
2:08.3	says it's us versus them. Workers are being cheated by bosses. Factories are closing. It's not fair. You're not getting your piece of the pie. I'll fight for you. This candidate, Thai Lucent, sleeves rolled up. Reagan's America is not good for all.
2:29.2	When we run this due caucus, this theoretical to caucus, he beats Bush every time, the Ohio Democrats say.
2:37.0	Sometimes by more than 20 percent. And And here, you might think that I'll say next, if only do caucus had listen.
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