[PDF] The Election Of 1988 eBook

Author : Gerald M. Pomper
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780934540773

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This fourth in a series of election reports by Pomper and others affiliated with the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University is indispensible reading for an informed electorate. Its wealth of statistics and cogent analysis throughout make it invaluable to professionals as well. Chapters cover the Reagan heritage; 1988 as a continuation of the recent past nominating process for Presidents; voter expectations of candidates; media aversion for issues; the election as mandate and/or realignment for Bush and the Republicans; the Congressional 1988 elections as a case study in continuity; and the election as proof for the Democratic party that it can not live off of the JFK legacy any longer. Such thorough analysis so soon after the election is laudable and noteworthy. Highly recommended.-- Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph -Library Journal.

Author : John J. Pitney, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0700628754

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Upon the 2018 death of George H. W. Bush, pundits and politicians mourned the passing of an exemplar of the statesmanship and bipartisan ethos of an earlier day. The judgment, though sound, would have shocked observers of the 1988 election that put Bush in the White House. From a scholar who played a small role in that long-ago election, After Reagan provides an eye-opening look at a presidential campaign that few suspected marked the end of an era—or the rise of forces roiling our political landscape today. Willie Horton. “Read my lips: No new taxes.” Michael Dukakis in a helmet, in a tank. Though these are remembered as pivotal moments in a presidential campaign recalled as whisker-close, in his book John J. Pitney Jr. reminds us how large Bush’s victory actually was, and how much it depended on social conditions and political dynamics that would change dramatically in the coming years. A turning point toward the post–Cold War, hyper-partisan, culturally divided politics of our time, the election of 1988 took place in a very different world. After Reagan captures a moment when campaigns were funded from the federal Treasury; when Republicans had a lock on the presidency and Democrats controlled Congress; when the electorate was considerably whiter and less educated than today’s; and when the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union—and the subsequent rise of globalization—were virtually unimaginable. Many books tell us that elections have consequences. Pitney’s explains how campaigns are consequential—the 1988 campaign more than most. From the perspective of the last thirty years, After Reagan shows us the 1988 election in a truly new light—one that, in turn, reveals the links between the campaign of 1988 and the politics of the twenty-first century.

Author : Richard Ben Cramer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1453219641

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Before Game Change there was What It Takes, a ride along the 1988 campaign trail and “possibly the best [book] ever written about an American election” (NPR). Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes is “a perfect-pitch rendering of the emotions, the intensity, the anguish, and the emptiness of what may have been the last normal two-party campaign in American history” (Time). An up-close, in-depth look at six candidates—George H. W. “Poppy” Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, and Gary Hart—this account of the 1988 US presidential campaign explores a unique moment in history, with details on everything from Bush at the Astrodome to Hart’s Donna Rice scandal. Cramer also addresses the question we find ourselves pondering every four years: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that allows them to throw their hat in the ring as a candidate for leadership of the free world? Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of these Republican and Democratic contenders, and the consultants, donors, journalists, handlers, and hangers-on who surround them, as they meet, greet, and strategize their way through primary season chasing the nomination, resulting in “a hipped-up amalgam of Teddy White, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). With timeless insight that helps us understand the current state of the nation, this “ultimate insider’s book on presidential politics” explores what helps these people survive, what makes them prosper, what drives them, and ultimately, what drives our government—human beings, in all their flawed glory (San Francisco Chronicle).

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The New York Times Co. offers historical information about the 1988 U.S. presidential election as part of the Learning Network. A summary is provided of the campaign and election, which involved Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (1933- ) and Republican candidate George Bush (1924- ). The newspaper also provides a quiz, articles about the election, the election results, trivia, and more.

Author : James L Guth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000314871

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The 1988 elections abruptly brought the importance of religion in American politics into sharp focus. Two ministers, Pat Robertson and Jesse Jackson, sought their party's presidential nominations by mobilizing key religious constituencies. In addition, a host of other religious groups, from the Catholic bishops to the Jewish community, sought to influence the election outcome. More than ever, religion was a critical factor in the ballots cast by millions of Americans. As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is clear that religion will continue to be a powerful factor in electoral politics. This volume investigates the many ways religion influenced electoral politics in 1988, tracing the links between elites, activists, and voters in the major religious traditions. Special attention is paid to the leaders of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish organizations; to important sets of activists, such as ministers, party leaders, and campaign contributors; and to the behavior of key voting blocs, including white evangelical and mainline Protestants, black Protestants, Catholics, and Jews.

Author : Herbert E. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429722680

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This book describes the role money played in the campaigns of each of the major contenders for the 1988 presidential election and in congressional campaigns as well. It focuses on the aspects of the political process and contributes to our understanding of political influence in the United State.

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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3640663659

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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: George H.W. Bush George Bush, a New England aristocrat partially transplanted to Texas, entered politics after almost two decades in the oil business. He was born on 12 June 1924 in Massachusetts, and grew up in a wealthy New York suburb. Bush followed his father’s example in switching from financial success in business to politics. He was and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas in 1964 and 1970, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1966 and again in 1968. After losing the race for the Senate in 1970, Bush was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Ford to a succession of important positions: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, chairman of the RNC, liaison to China, and director of the CIA. In January 1977 Bush resigned as head of the CIA and returned to Texas, where he began campaigning for the presidency in 1978. However, he lost the nomination to the more glamorous and conservative Ronald Reagan, who later picked him to be his running mate for the office of vice-president. The Reagan-Bush ticket won easily in 1980, and 1984. Michael Dukakis Michael Dukakis’s political strength, and the reason he won the Democratic nomination in 1988, was the fact that very different kinds of Democrats and liberals could project their hopes onto him. At heart, the Governor of Massachusetts was an old-style Democrat. Dukakis’s style was that of the upper-middle-class reformers who were now so important to the Democratic nominating process. Yet Dukakis was also a Greek American, the “son of immigrants,” as he would say over and over. His approach to government was intensely serious and mistrustful of politics-as-usual.