Many people believe that presidential election debates and running mate selections make very little difference in the outcome of a election. The 1988 contest tends to support that theory, given that in early October one of the most memorable debate moments took place in that contest, not in the debates between the presidential candidates, but in ( Read more... )

Alternate Presidents is a collection of 28 short stories edited by Mike Resnick, speculating on what history might have been like if the outcome of 28 presidential elections would have been different. This anthology was released on February 15, 1992. This book is a delight to read. Resnick, a Hugo Award winning science fiction writer, also ( Read more... )

We will end our April series on the Making of the President 2024 with a look at what the current polling data is predicting concerning how each state might cast their electoral votes come November. But one should not forget, as was pointed out in the previous article that, as Professor Alan Lichtman has stated, early polling information is ( Read more... )

In this community previously, we have talked about Professor Alan Lichtman and his "13 Keys" that he has used to successfully predict the outcome of every Presidential election nine of the last ten times. (He narrowly missed calling the 2000 election correctly, but it's hard to fault him for that one.) Lichtman is a sort of real-like Hari Seldon ( ( Read more... )

George H. W. Bush is remembered as a gentleman. While that may or may not have always been so (or at least his campaign team and some of the ungentlemanly things attributed to it in the 1988 Presidential election), he always presented his message with an air of courtesy. He called for a "kinder, gentler America" and in an informal poll taken among ( Read more... )

Jesse Louis Jackson is an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, who ran for President twice, in 1984 and in 1988. In 1988 he finished second in the race for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination, both in primary votes and in convention delegates. He was also present in Memphis, one floor below, when Dr. Martin Luther King ( Read more... )

In 1988, the South Carolina was not an early primary as it is today. It was held on March 12th, four days after that year's "Super Tuesday". South Carolina's primary is memorable because of a significant victory there by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the first African-American candidate to win a presidential primary or caucus. Jackson first achieved ( Read more... )

George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States was born June 12, 1924, 99 years ago today. He passed away on November 30, 2018 at the age of 94. In those 94 years he lived a full and amazing life. Besides being President, he was a war hero, captained a baseball team in two world series, served as a congressman, an ambassador, ( Read more... )

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924. His father was Prescott Sheldon Bush and his mother was the former Dorothy Bush. The Bush family moved from Milton to Greenwich, Connecticut, shortly after his birth. In 1936, the future president began attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he later ( Read more... )

In the current century, the person who came closest to being President without crossing the finish line was former Tennessee Senator and former Vice-President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by a margin of more than 500,000 votes but ultimately lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. ( Read more... )