A Dukakis - Jackson ticket would have beaten Bush.

[Sean Reynolds]

So says a 1988 poll by Roper Organization.

DUKAKIS-JACKSON WOULD DEFEAT BUSH, POLL SAYS



A Democratic ticket headed by Michael Dukakis with Jesse<100> Jackson<100> as his running mate would defeat George Bush in a general election, according to a poll released on Saturday.
Without Jackson, a Dukakis-Bush contest would be a tossup, and alone Jackson would be crushed by the vice president, but together the two Democrats would win, the Roper Organization survey showed.A poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday also showed that if the election were held today the Democrats would have a better chance of victory against Bush if Dukakis were the party's nominee.
Dukakis and Jackson are neck-and-neck in the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention, but neither man is likely to get the 2,082 needed to clinch the nomination on the first ballot, leading to speculation that the nomination will be brokered by party leaders.

This was an article I found in the Deseret News archives.

[Fenris]

1. For some reason, I find that hard to believe

:shrug:
Guess I'm not keeping hope alive.

[boxster]

2. Perhaps, but we know how accurate polls can be. How long before the

election was the poll taken?

[Sean Reynolds]

3. Around April.

[boxster]

5. Wow. I had forgotten that the race was that close that late.

Though, the primary schedule was much different then.

I saw Jackson speak in a school gym in a small town in South Dakota during the '84 campaign. He was speaking to a room full of primarily white, conservative farmers.

At the end of the speech, he got a standing ovation from those white, conservative farmers. It gave me goosebumps.

I had a chance to speak with him after the speech. He was very cordial and gracious.

He was (is) an incredible public speaker. I would have voted for him in a heartbeat.

[Loonman]

4. Is Dukakis going to do his "Rocky, the Flying Squirrel" impression again?

[Kahuna]

6. So a recent poll reveals what would have happened in '88?!?

That is impossible to measure. I find it very unlikely that in 1988 Americans were evolved enough to elect Jesse Jackson on a natinal ticket. It just didn't seem that way to me.

[Sean Reynolds]

9. No.

This was a poll from April of 1988.

[mlawson]

13. Most all polls showed Dukakis ahead of Poppy back then.

Even in August Dukakis was still way ahead.

This is why I roll my eyes when I see a post that says, "bush is toast".

[Sean Reynolds]

15. Exactly.

[denverbill]

7. Wow. Flash one breast and look what happens!

Oh. Wrong Jackson. Wrong century. Wrong Bush.

[OneBlueSky]

8. I want some of what they're smokin' . . . really . . . n/t

.

[Loonman]

10. Dukakis is the whole reason

Why we can't get any Democrats in the Governor's office in Massachusetts.

What a clown he was.

[Sean Reynolds]

11. He's the only reason the DLC took over the Democratic Party.

[Kat45]

12. He was good as governor in the earlier years.

IIRC, he worked for (and got passed) a universal health care bill in the state. Which got repealed (or something) after he was gone.

[Deja Q]

14. This is from 1988, yes?

:shrug: