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Meanwhile, the Democratic Party nominated Governor [[Michael Dukakis]], known for presiding over an economic turnaround in Massachusetts.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=37–39}} Leading in the general election polls against Bush, Dukakis ran an ineffective, low-risk campaign.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=39, 47}} The Bush campaign attacked Dukakis as an unpatriotic liberal extremist and seized on the [[Willie Horton]] case, in which a convicted felon from Massachusetts raped a woman while on a [[prison furlough]], a program Dukakis supported as governor. The Bush campaign charged that Dukakis presided over a "[[revolving door]]" that allowed dangerous convicted felons to leave prison.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=44–46}} Dukakis damaged his own campaign with a widely mocked ride in an [[M1 Abrams]] tank and poor performance at the second presidential debate.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=47–49}} Bush also attacked Dukakis for opposing a law that would require all students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.<ref name="npr" /> The election is widely considered to have had a high level of negative campaigning, though political scientist John Geer has argued that the share of negative ads was in line with previous presidential elections.{{sfn|Meacham|2015|pp=347–348}} | Meanwhile, the Democratic Party nominated Governor [[Michael Dukakis]], known for presiding over an economic turnaround in Massachusetts.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=37–39}} Leading in the general election polls against Bush, Dukakis ran an ineffective, low-risk campaign.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=39, 47}} The Bush campaign attacked Dukakis as an unpatriotic liberal extremist and seized on the [[Willie Horton]] case, in which a convicted felon from Massachusetts raped a woman while on a [[prison furlough]], a program Dukakis supported as governor. The Bush campaign charged that Dukakis presided over a "[[revolving door]]" that allowed dangerous convicted felons to leave prison.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=44–46}} Dukakis damaged his own campaign with a widely mocked ride in an [[M1 Abrams]] tank and poor performance at the second presidential debate.{{sfn|Greene|2015|pp=47–49}} Bush also attacked Dukakis for opposing a law that would require all students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.<ref name="npr" /> The election is widely considered to have had a high level of negative campaigning, though political scientist John Geer has argued that the share of negative ads was in line with previous presidential elections.{{sfn|Meacham|2015|pp=347–348}} | ||
Bush defeated Dukakis by a margin of 426 to 111 in the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]], and he took 53.4 percent of the national popular vote.<ref>{{cite web|title=1988 Presidential General Election Results|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1988|website=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|access-date=May 21, 2018}}</ref> Bush ran well in all the major regions of the country, but especially in the [[Southern United States|South]].{{sfn|Greene|2015|p=49}} He became the fourth sitting vice president to be elected president and the first to do so since | Bush defeated Dukakis by a margin of 426 to 111 in the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]], and he took 53.4 percent of the national popular vote.<ref>{{cite web|title=1988 Presidential General Election Results|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1988|website=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|access-date=May 21, 2018}}</ref> Bush ran well in all the major regions of the country, but especially in the [[Southern United States|South]].{{sfn|Greene|2015|p=49}} He became the fourth sitting vice president to be elected president and the first to do so since Martin Van Burenin [[1836 United States presidential election|1836]] and the first person to succeed a president from his own party via election since [[Herbert Hoover]] in [[Inauguration of Herbert Hoover|1929]].<ref name="senate"/>{{efn|The 1988 presidential election remains the only presidential election since 1948 in which either party won a third consecutive term.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Silver |first1=Nate |title=The White House Is Not a Metronome |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-white-house-is-not-a-metronome/ |work=FiveThirtyEight |date=July 18, 2013}}</ref>}} In the concurrent [[1988 United States elections|congressional elections]], Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress.{{sfn|Patterson|2005|pp=224–225}} | ||
== Presidency (1989–1993) == | == Presidency (1989–1993) == | ||