Greek Mike Dukakis Lloyd Bentsen 56mm Pin 1988 Campaign Button Democrat Michael For Sale

1988 Michael Dukakis Lloyd Bentsen 56mm Pin Potus Campaign Button Democrat Greek.

The 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis began when he announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States on March 16, 1987, in a speech in Boston. After winning the nomination, he was formally selected as the Democratic Party's nominee at the party's convention in Atlanta, Georgia on July 21, 1988.[5][6] He lost the 1988 election to his Republican opponent George H. W. Bush, who was the sitting Vice President at the time. Dukakis won 10 states and the District of Columbia, receiving a total of 111 electoral votes compared to Bush's 426 (Dukakis would have received 112, but one faithless elector who was pledged to him voted for Bentsen for president and Dukakis for vice president instead out of protest). Dukakis received 45% of the popular vote to Bush's 53%.[7] Many commentators blamed Dukakis' loss on the embarrassing photograph of him in a tank taken on September 13, 1988, which subsequently formed the basis of a successful Republican attack ad.[8][9] Much of the blame was also laid on Dukakis' campaign, which was criticized for being poorly managed despite being well funded.[10][11] He would have been the first Greek American President, and the first non-Western European American.