Would be good to do a new series that compares the change in composition of congress during each of these elections. Perhaps limited to 1900 to present
In 1988 Biden attempted to run before dropping out, and Trump considered running before deciding not to. If things had gone differently, the 1988 election could have been Trump vs. Biden
@@AltHistorySports No he wasn't. In 1987 he registered as a Republican. He stayed that way until 1999 when he joined the Reform Party to run for President in 2000.
Westportlad Sad considering George H.W. Bush's administration was very solid and I would have taken 8 years of Bush and Quayle over 8 years of Clinton and Gore.
Fun fact: One of my best friends is a Bentsen, and the great-grandson of Lloyd Bentsen. He’s also a political science major, so look out for him in the 2050s political sphere
I think George HW Bush was underrated, achieving great successes in his Presidency, however his one liner about "read my lips, no new taxes," came back to bite him back
Strange thing was he was forced to compromise with the tax structure due to a democratic Congress at the time. So it wasn't totally his fault but, being the president, that's how people saw him.
Bush 41 was an okay president. He led America to victory in the Gulf War, he presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War and he signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act. His negative in my opinion is his economic management as the economy fell into a recession in 1990.
@@johnjones3813wait what 😂😂😂😂 does he wins there ? Also does Manbearpig is actually an entity? Damn we definitely living in a very weird of a timeline lol
You should have mentioned several of the really close states that almost gave Dukakis the victory like California and Illinois. Despite him losing in a "landslide" this election, he did amazing compared to Carter in 80 and Mondale in 84
Well the other thing was that the nation in general wanted another Reagan, and knew that Bush I was as close as we'd get to having that happen pretty much. Problem was that Bush could never be him, nor match his wit at all, and didn't ever really have any true vision for his presidency, along with what he wanted it to be about, and defined by. That along with appearing to be just a bit too out of touch with modern society at the time it seemed, unlike Bill Clinton who nailed it on virtually every aspect.
@@freakyfornash Obviously, the perception of Bush wasn't what Bush was like at all, but Americans aren't known for their sense of good leaders. Bush is widely considered to be the best one term president in american history by most historians. The man that actually ended the cold war, oversaw the reunification of Germany, beat the commies, led the only war that was a undisputed victory for america since World war 2, implemented policies that were largely responsible for the economic boom of the 90s, and, most importantly, sacrificed his political future by going back on a campaign pledge to prevent America from going bankrupt.
@@williamkrause5831 And it was a shame America didn't quite see it that way though. He also had good approval ratings once he left office, for what it was worth as well.
freakyfornash yep. Dude was a man that genuinely wanted to be the best leader america had to offer. He lived to serve america. Competence is an underrated quality. Few people in politics today have his innate sense of duty to actually lead and govern the people.
@@williamkrause5831 And Bush I definitely was a good man, which most agreed with too. There was a good reason why he was the last presidential candidate to earn over 400 electoral votes, even if certain circumstances (while going up against a charismatic opponent who many liked, and was very popular) become his unfortunate undoing as time went on. But had if the 92 election happened a year earlier, I 100% guarantee there's also no way he would have lost it, and it's too bad it had to happen that year, when the recession hit, and caused many to remember the tax hike, with domestic issues taking center stage then.
ted landry 1: are you deranged? Insulting someone who is dead? 2: are you dumb? Bush did NOT cause 911. He wasn’t a good president, but he didn’t do THAT.
Yeah people slam Kamala as being dumb, but we've been in this boat before with Dan Quayle. And yes the media was equally harsh on him, proving that criticism of Kamala Harris is not racist, but media accurately calling out these dumb Vice Presidents. Any President who nominates such a terrible Vice President immediately loses my vote because that shows their lack of judgement. It's why I couldn't vote for McCain in 08, and I didn't vote Biden in 2020 either (I voted 3rd party). As for Bush sr., I was too young to vote in this election.
@@jimmym3352 I came back here to ask: Are you going to vote for Harris now? Surely it's different running as President rather than Vice=President! I hear being President makes people smater! I mean Smarter, S-M-A-R-T-E-R!
Dukakis really screwed himself over by not picking Jesse Jackson as his running mate beacuse he would have likely got the black vote with a Dukakis/Jackson ticket
Something that I found out about 1988 that was interesting was that David Duke ran for the Democratic nomination and failed miserably which I found extremely hilarious.
This was also the first election since 1932 where Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring New York, phenomenon that would not occur again until 2016.
Good Video, as usual, Mr. Beat. The best part of this election, was Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quale in The Vice Presidential Debate, "Senator, You're No Jack Kennedy"
Dukakis win the highest percentage of votes in Iowa for any candidate since 1972. The farm crisis of the mid-80’s really got people here to turn against Reagan and Bush.
This was the first Presidential election I ever voted in. As a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, registered as an independent, I voted for The Duke just to get him out of the State House. Come on, he'd been our Governor twice and deserved another job. 😅
I never thought about Bush being the president after he was VP, and the last one to do that was Martin Van Buren, but that was like 100 some years ago.
@@GamerKid64 I swear I found you on a video for the election of 1984, and yes he is the next president Congress already confirmed Biden as the next president
@@GamerKid64 really tho I’ve been reported once before and it got my channel terminated and it got me really pissed and I don’t want that to happen so fine I’ll stop
I think Dukakis chose Bentsen as his running mate because he saw himself as another JFK. Dukakis and JFK were both white ethnics from Massachusetts running for President against the current VP of the popular Republican President who had been in office for eight years. JFK chose a Democratic Senator from Texas to be his running mate, so Dukakis did too. The media called it the "Boston-Austin alliance".
The Bush-Dukakis race was a fun one...if you were a Republican. You just knew Bush would win but you didn't know by how much. It was also the first election I remember where the modern day TV media started to show their liberal bias. They really went after Dan Quayle, who wasn't a great communicator but was regarded as being very shrewd during negotiating sessions. He was considered a good choice to assist in getting Presidential policies by the House, which was still held by the Democrats. Lloyd Bentsen famously mopped the floor with Quayle in their Veep debate, and a poll found that the public wanted Bush for President and Bentsen for Veep.
The presidential debate by November 3 1988 by John Edwards and George he bush who got elected in 88 by after Sebastian F ford by Richard Nixon after 1988 elections
Cool video but if you'd like to see more details on this election, I'd recommend watching the CNN documentary series "Race for the White House". There's an episode on this election and it's a really well told story. To quote Dukakis' campaign manager on that episode "You can't beat someone playing hardball by playing softball".
Democrats have only won the White House three times in history without West Virginia. Biden, Obama, and Woodrow Wilson. I expect that number to increase in the future as West Virginia is one of the most Republican states in the country now
Expanding upon 0:15, both Mr. Beat and I were both born on a year ending in 1 (1981/2001), the first election we were alive was 84/04 which we have no memory of, and the 88/08 elections were the first ones we remember.
Dukakis was a lackluster candidate and had a poor showing at the debates along with not acting responsible with the death penalty was the key for lost.
Even if Dukakis won by some stroke of luck he would have been a one-term president. No way would his policies be passed by Rep. Senators. He would have been the Carter of the late 80s and early 90s. He was just too liberal from a blue state.
Fun fact: This was the first election since 1968 where the incumbent President was not running for reelection (Nixon in '72, Ford in '76, Carter in '80, Reagan in '84)
In the 2nd Naked Gun movie they had a scene in a "blues" bar. The camera panned across the pictures on the wall....from the Titanic sinking.....the Hindenburg exploding ..then to Michael Dukakis. Three of the biggest disasters of the 20th Century, 😉
You forgot Lee Atwater's racist Willie Horton ad, which was of incalculable influence. Bush, in 1991, nominated the worst Supreme Court Justice in modern history--Clarence Thomas. It was a thoroughly cynical appointment, as Thomas was to replace Thurgood Marshall, a Civil Rights icon; a Black for another Black. There were plenty of reasons to oppose Thomas, but Bush was saying to the Democrats, who controlled the Senate, "Hey, chumps, let's see you turn down a member of your biggest constituency.". Can you tell that I despise George H.W. Bush?
Good video although one minor nitpick. Bush 41 never promised to NOT RAISE taxes. He promised there would be no NEW taxes. So in a sense, he kept his word in that he did not introduce any new taxes, however he did raise existing ones. Many Americans thought his promise meant what Mr. Beat noted - it meant taxes wouldn’t go up. Was definitely one of the things that cost him the 92’ election.
This was the first time I got to vote in a presidential election. I turned 18 and went into the military that year. It was also the only time my vote mattered. I would go on to vote Republican from 92 to 00 in California. Each time a Democrat would win the state. I would vote for Democrats from 04 until 16, will living in Missouri, Texas, and Tennessee. Each state being won by the Republican candidate.
I'm a little older than you so the election I remember first is Mondale vs. Reagan but anyway how could you fail to mention Willie Horton. That probably did as much damage as him driving around in the tank. And I was wondering was there ever a primary as interesting as this Democratic primary.
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I know wich of the 7 drawrfs is joe biden, sleepy.
duokakus sounds like if obama did white face. Lol
DelaWhere??? Dela in the White House
Would be good to do a new series that compares the change in composition of congress during each of these elections. Perhaps limited to 1900 to present
Read my lios
32 years later, Joe Biden is still running for President.
You should use wap in the background music for the 2020 election
wait until he does it again in 2024
@@Skellyy agreed
I know
Spoiler alert: Biden won the presidency in 2020.
In 1988 Biden attempted to run before dropping out, and Trump considered running before deciding not to. If things had gone differently, the 1988 election could have been Trump vs. Biden
probably Trump v Bush v Biden bc Trump was a democrat at that time so he'd run as an independent if anything
Or just Trump Vs. Biden in the primaries...
@@AltHistorySports There's definitely a few alt timelines where Trump and Biden were the Democrat running mates against Bush & Quayle.
@@AltHistorySports No he wasn't. In 1987 he registered as a Republican. He stayed that way until 1999 when he joined the Reform Party to run for President in 2000.
@TheKewlToons He was a Democrat in the 90's. He has been connected to many past president and have supported many from different parties.
First Time we see Biden in this series, he’s gonna be a reoccurring character.
I hope he gets a great character development arc
Patrick Tjhai with corn pop as a recurring villain
Sooo, CORNPOP CAME AT ME AND ATTACKED ME
Know he is going to be revelant
He did. Bye Don!
I knew jack Kennedy
I worked with jack Kennedy
Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.
Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.
Oh snap
I knew thomas jefferson
He was a friend of mine
Governor you’re no thomas jefferson
-Ronald reagan
*Scotty Pippen
@ I think anyone remember to the time you hear Dan Quayle you automatically think of potatoe
Anglozion 76 a best burn as well is “cuz you’d be in jail”
This may be the last election you'll ever see California red.
It sure seems that way.
Not just California. New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, Michigan, etc.
MajorGeneral Nobody was expecting that to be fait.
MajorGeneral fair*
MajorGeneral yea but Michigan was always leaning blue by 5%....CA leans by 35
Read my lips no new taxes. Oh how that backfired.
Little did he know...
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Westportlad Sad considering George H.W. Bush's administration was very solid and I would have taken 8 years of Bush and Quayle over 8 years of Clinton and Gore.
I read this in Frank N Furter's voice. lol
What he meant to say was "no blue faxes." It just came out wrong.
Jimmy Carter is now the longest lived president, as Bush passed away yesterday
Which bush?
George H. W. Bush or George W. Bush?
@@karsentube13yt first one
PopCultureWorld what?
PopCultureWorld That’s his username
Andrej Popović I didn’t notice that, sorry
Pat Robertson, Al Gore, Joe Biden...wtf 1988? Isn't it a bit too early?
bob dole, too
He barely looked the same lol
Don't be surprised during that time men in 40's tried to run for Presidency not like today where men on life support are running for Presidency
Fun fact: One of my best friends is a Bentsen, and the great-grandson of Lloyd Bentsen. He’s also a political science major, so look out for him in the 2050s political sphere
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Joe Biden appearing this early into American Politics is really the equivalent a cameo of seeing a a main and prevalent character as a child
I think George HW Bush was underrated, achieving great successes in his Presidency, however his one liner about "read my lips, no new taxes," came back to bite him back
And also the Persian Gulf.
Strange thing was he was forced to compromise with the tax structure due to a democratic Congress at the time. So it wasn't totally his fault but, being the president, that's how people saw him.
Bush 41 was an okay president. He led America to victory in the Gulf War, he presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War and he signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act. His negative in my opinion is his economic management as the economy fell into a recession in 1990.
@@jaidenamccarroll How? That was one of his greatest successes.
@@2H2521 I was talking about how that was a success, sorry for the confusion.
He's gonna make it!!!! Just a couple decades to go
I think I can. I think I can.
Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel vice president Joe biden ran for president in 1988???
... Lol nice
@@flynnflake5841 yes
Did you just predict the future?
The fact that Gore nearly or maybe could have faced Daddy Bush instead of Bush Jr. What an irony!
Watch the tv show For All Mankind. This happens.
@@johnjones3813wait what 😂😂😂😂 does he wins there ? Also does Manbearpig is actually an entity? Damn we definitely living in a very weird of a timeline lol
Bro was nowhere near
You should have mentioned several of the really close states that almost gave Dukakis the victory like California and Illinois. Despite him losing in a "landslide" this election, he did amazing compared to Carter in 80 and Mondale in 84
Well the other thing was that the nation in general wanted another Reagan, and knew that Bush I was as close as we'd get to having that happen pretty much. Problem was that Bush could never be him, nor match his wit at all, and didn't ever really have any true vision for his presidency, along with what he wanted it to be about, and defined by. That along with appearing to be just a bit too out of touch with modern society at the time it seemed, unlike Bill Clinton who nailed it on virtually every aspect.
@@freakyfornash Obviously, the perception of Bush wasn't what Bush was like at all, but Americans aren't known for their sense of good leaders. Bush is widely considered to be the best one term president in american history by most historians. The man that actually ended the cold war, oversaw the reunification of Germany, beat the commies, led the only war that was a undisputed victory for america since World war 2, implemented policies that were largely responsible for the economic boom of the 90s, and, most importantly, sacrificed his political future by going back on a campaign pledge to prevent America from going bankrupt.
@@williamkrause5831 And it was a shame America didn't quite see it that way though. He also had good approval ratings once he left office, for what it was worth as well.
freakyfornash yep. Dude was a man that genuinely wanted to be the best leader america had to offer. He lived to serve america. Competence is an underrated quality. Few people in politics today have his innate sense of duty to actually lead and govern the people.
@@williamkrause5831 And Bush I definitely was a good man, which most agreed with too. There was a good reason why he was the last presidential candidate to earn over 400 electoral votes, even if certain circumstances (while going up against a charismatic opponent who many liked, and was very popular) become his unfortunate undoing as time went on. But had if the 92 election happened a year earlier, I 100% guarantee there's also no way he would have lost it, and it's too bad it had to happen that year, when the recession hit, and caused many to remember the tax hike, with domestic issues taking center stage then.
I bet Joe Biden missed when his hair wasn't white
How'd he regain his bald spot though
Genskiel Hair plugs
And when he didn't have dementia
Also the time when he actually had a functioning brain
Eric Pinteralli he doesn’t have dementia
R.I.P
George H.W. Bush
June 12, 1924-November 30, 2018
bush is a fucking idiot 😂so is hes son 🤷🏻 they flew 2 planes in the towers 🤷🏻
ted landry that’s a conspiracy
ted landry 1: are you deranged? Insulting someone who is dead? 2: are you dumb? Bush did NOT cause 911. He wasn’t a good president, but he didn’t do THAT.
@@killert_7759 insulting a dead person does not make you deranged
Geez chill
Love how the election of 1988 ends terrific man I can't wait for 1992 and 2000.
Both are two of my favorites to talk about.
Dan Quayle had the maturity of a 10 year old but the ideas of a 80 year old.
And yet he and Bush still won nonetheless.
Yeah people slam Kamala as being dumb, but we've been in this boat before with Dan Quayle. And yes the media was equally harsh on him, proving that criticism of Kamala Harris is not racist, but media accurately calling out these dumb Vice Presidents. Any President who nominates such a terrible Vice President immediately loses my vote because that shows their lack of judgement. It's why I couldn't vote for McCain in 08, and I didn't vote Biden in 2020 either (I voted 3rd party). As for Bush sr., I was too young to vote in this election.
@@jimmym3352 I came back here to ask: Are you going to vote for Harris now? Surely it's different running as President rather than Vice=President! I hear being President makes people smater! I mean Smarter, S-M-A-R-T-E-R!
turns out that "dwarf" will now be president...
Funnie
You forgot to mention that Lloyd Bentsen received one electoral vote from a West Virginia faithless elector. Otherwise, great video!
Indeed, Mr Beat did not miss past faithless electors ~
He also forgot the infamous death penalty question.
And ironically, that faithless elector voted for Dukakis to become the vice president.
Bush’s only mistake, in my opinion, was not nominating Dole as his running mate.
...and making that tax promise in the first place.
Also, one of Dukakis' campaign staffers literally advised him not to do the tank photo op.
Dukakis really screwed himself over by not picking Jesse Jackson as his running mate beacuse he would have likely got the black vote with a Dukakis/Jackson ticket
We would have missed out on the "You're no Jack Kennedy" line unfortunately
The minority of blacks votes for a Democrat candidate anyway. Regardless who the nominee or the running mate is.
Bentson was definitely a good pick. He ate Dan Quayle alive in their debate. Dukakis was the problem due to his poor performance.
Alternate Reality: Dukakis-Jackson ticket carried only Washington, the District of Columbia!
@@poett8875 Dukakis pretty much did everything wrong perhaps even worse than Gore did in the 2000 Election.
Something that I found out about 1988 that was interesting was that David Duke ran for the Democratic nomination and failed miserably which I found extremely hilarious.
Yes 1988 was when the democrats was the party of the working man not lgbt, immigrants, and feminism
In all fairness, Dukakis actually served in the US Army in the 1950s.
I think he had some knowledge of the military for his 2 year tenure.
This was also the first election since 1932 where Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring New York, phenomenon that would not occur again until 2016.
Apparently Michael Dukakis is the father-in-law of my mom’s friend. I also apparently met him when I was four.
Imagine my surprise when I found out my dad, a conservative redneck who supports Trump, admitted to me that Dukakis was his first presidential vote.
Yes because back then the Democratic Party was the party of the working man. Now it’s the party of LGBT, immigrants, and feminism
Good Video, as usual, Mr. Beat. The best part of this election, was Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quale in The Vice Presidential Debate, "Senator, You're No Jack Kennedy"
You did such a great job with this series, you deserve to be at (at least) 500k subs if not more.
1:41 My guy Paul Simon be looking like a WWF referee
Crazy that we could have had Trump V Biden or Bush V Gore in ‘88
Imagine if Biden won this race?
That would've been scary knowing the kind of guy Biden was back then.
Would likely have DIED within two years 😢
@@GoblinFromOblivion Biden wasn't so bad in 1988. By nowhere us senile and manipulation prone.
R.I.P george h w bush today
Your videos are charming, I will miss seeing them once you finish the series!
Rouge The Horny Bat probably keep going as elections go on
Rouge The Horny Bat probably keep going as elections go on
Only two ways this series will end (guess what they are) ~
Dukakis win the highest percentage of votes in Iowa for any candidate since 1972. The farm crisis of the mid-80’s really got people here to turn against Reagan and Bush.
it was an isolated upset
I love your music choices in this series
R.I.P. George H. W. Bush. 1924-2018.
Thank you, Mr. Beat. I finally understand what the tank photo was for
1:58 the 46th President
I love your choice of music across these videos! :)
“Joe Biden”. That sounds like a good name for a president.
You don't say....
This was the first Presidential election I ever voted in. As a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, registered as an independent, I voted for The Duke just to get him out of the State House. Come on, he'd been our Governor twice and deserved another job. 😅
Anyone else notice he pronounces Reagan like Reh-gin, not Ray-gin
Anyway I still love this channel lol
Love how you put INXS's Need You Tonight as the background music
I never thought about Bush being the president after he was VP, and the last one to do that was Martin Van Buren, but that was like 100 some years ago.
I could watch this video a thousand times over just for the Need You Tonight instrumental
DUKAKIS DONT GET IN THE FUCKING TANK
me with a Time Machine
@@user-tw5ro3xx2v Im thinking about that one interstellar meme where matt damon bangs on the window
Can’t believe he’s gone. Rip GHW Bush
Keep in mind that this is not George W Bush. This is George HW Bush.
thanks you just helped me on my election prodject
Glad to help!
1:58 he’s not JUST a former senator now
And now the next president
@@s4gr_n0s3y NO
HE
ISNT!!!!!!!
(how do I keep finding you lol???)
@@GamerKid64 I swear I found you on a video for the election of 1984, and yes he is the next president Congress already confirmed Biden as the next president
@@s4gr_n0s3y I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU SAY BIDEN IS THE VICTOR ONE MORE TIME IM GONNA REPORT YOU!!!!!!
@@GamerKid64 really tho I’ve been reported once before and it got my channel terminated and it got me really pissed and I don’t want that to happen so fine I’ll stop
Tbh its fascinating that joe biden ran in 1988
Until getting caught for plagiarism and acting like a POS in interviews. He definitely made mistakes, but got better along the way.
@@alexanderrobins7497 he got caught plagiarizing Reagan and he butchered it badly. 😂😅
36 years later and Biden is still trying to
*Talks about American Election*
*Plays Australian music*
Thank you mate :D
whose here when joe biden is the president of the us
@@thesnipingseal8011 lol will be
@@thesnipingseal8011 president-elect
Wait 2 months and delete all your replies
@@michaelmontagu1077 ok fair enough
@@thesnipingseal8011 and he never will be
I think Dukakis chose Bentsen as his running mate because he saw himself as another JFK. Dukakis and JFK were both white ethnics from Massachusetts running for President against the current VP of the popular Republican President who had been in office for eight years. JFK chose a Democratic Senator from Texas to be his running mate, so Dukakis did too. The media called it the "Boston-Austin alliance".
But, Dukakis is no Jack Kennedy 😅
Bentsen was more like LBJ 2.0
“My name is Dan Quayle. I have to go boom boom”
The Bush-Dukakis race was a fun one...if you were a Republican. You just knew Bush would win but you didn't know by how much. It was also the first election I remember where the modern day TV media started to show their liberal bias. They really went after Dan Quayle, who wasn't a great communicator but was regarded as being very shrewd during negotiating sessions. He was considered a good choice to assist in getting Presidential policies by the House, which was still held by the Democrats. Lloyd Bentsen famously mopped the floor with Quayle in their Veep debate, and a poll found that the public wanted Bush for President and Bentsen for Veep.
The presidential debate by November 3 1988 by John Edwards and George he bush who got elected in 88 by after Sebastian F ford by Richard Nixon after 1988 elections
Mr beat you missed the 1 faithless elector vote in West Virginia. Lloyd Bentsen
Cool video but if you'd like to see more details on this election, I'd recommend watching the CNN documentary series "Race for the White House". There's an episode on this election and it's a really well told story.
To quote Dukakis' campaign manager on that episode "You can't beat someone playing hardball by playing softball".
This ended Dukakis' political career & caused him NOT to seek reelection to 4th term as MA Governor in 1990.
Me too, the earliest I remember. In elementary school we "voted". I voted for Dukakis since he had my name lol
Biden looks like he could’ve been in a movie 2:52
Fun fact: 1988 was the last time a republican won the presidential race without West Virginia.
Democrats have only won the White House three times in history without West Virginia. Biden, Obama, and Woodrow Wilson. I expect that number to increase in the future as West Virginia is one of the most Republican states in the country now
There was a hypothetical scenario in 1988 that it could have been a Trump vs Biden run since Trump also considered running that year.
Seeing biden here is like seeing some random guy in a series turning out to be a main character 8 season in the future
Expanding upon 0:15, both Mr. Beat and I were both born on a year ending in 1 (1981/2001), the first election we were alive was 84/04 which we have no memory of, and the 88/08 elections were the first ones we remember.
haha nice! How close is your birthday to 9/11?
simonster -909 I was born in 2/ 11/2001 too, I don't remember the 2004 election but I remember the 2008 one! I'm Irish though!
I was born in 2001 and I remember the 2004 election
I had to watch this circus in 1988, because it was required in my 6th grade current events class...
Was not expecting Dark Brandon. Let it be a lesson on perseverance if nothing else.
Whoever is watching during 2020 this is Joe Biden third attempt to be El Presidente
In just a few weeks we will find out if he is successful or not
@Mr. Graves Not yet
@@toasteddice too late man
@@diddoinarow8846 Shut Up Liberal
@@diddoinarow8846 No im just pointing out he isnt in office yet technically isnt president yet right?
Fun fact about the southern baptist church, my dad was a choir boy at the southern baptist repntagon in houston.
George H. W. Bush died on November 30th 😭
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no sympathy for literal war criminals
@@shalizzle793”war criminal🤓” average leftard confusing gulf war with iraq war
He forgot the VP debate with “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”
“I knew Jack Kennedy, I served with Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine, and senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”
-Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle
Easily, bentsen would have won 538 electoral votes! if ,he ran as President lollllll.
You really should have mentioned the Vice Presidential Debate :-)
Read my lips ALOT of taxes
I need you tonight in the background. Banger
Dukakis was a lackluster candidate and had a poor showing at the debates along with not acting responsible with the death penalty was the key for lost.
Even if Dukakis won by some stroke of luck he would have been a one-term president. No way would his policies be passed by Rep. Senators. He would have been the Carter of the late 80s and early 90s. He was just too liberal from a blue state.
Dukakis might have won a second term if a guy like Pat Buchanan gets nominated.@@richieboostajr.35
Fun fact: This was the first election since 1968 where the incumbent President was not running for reelection (Nixon in '72, Ford in '76, Carter in '80, Reagan in '84)
In the 2nd Naked Gun movie they had a scene in a "blues" bar. The camera panned across the pictures on the wall....from the Titanic sinking.....the Hindenburg exploding ..then to Michael Dukakis. Three of the biggest disasters of the 20th Century, 😉
Lol
Bentsen ironically beat Bush in a 1970 US senate race in Texas
You forgot Lee Atwater's racist Willie Horton ad, which was of incalculable influence. Bush, in 1991, nominated the worst Supreme Court Justice in modern history--Clarence Thomas. It was a thoroughly cynical appointment, as Thomas was to replace Thurgood Marshall, a Civil Rights icon; a Black for another Black. There were plenty of reasons to oppose Thomas, but Bush was saying to the Democrats, who controlled the Senate, "Hey, chumps, let's see you turn down a member of your biggest constituency.". Can you tell that I despise George H.W. Bush?
Who else has the “Need You Tonight” instrumental stuck in their head after this?
Dayyum my boi Biden getting the white house only 32 years later :D
Not yet, he isn't. The media can't call an election.
@@classicgalactica5879 you right👍 but the people did👉👉
@@flangl2849 The people don’t decide elections electors do. And what’s so good about Biden anyway.
@@prometheustv6558 'The people don't decide elections' is a horrible phrase, fix your damn system
What are you saying now npc that he has proved to be maybe the worst president ever in the us
1:58 Bet that guy won't get anywhere 😆
You’re right he won’t
If being president is nowhere, i guess you're right
Jesse Jackson would've been wayyy better then Dukakis for primary
Mr. Beat, you and I are nearly the same age (like within a month). This is also my first election I can remember.
Matthew Jones just a coincidence.
R.I.P George H.W. Bush
Good video although one minor nitpick. Bush 41 never promised to NOT RAISE taxes. He promised there would be no NEW taxes.
So in a sense, he kept his word in that he did not introduce any new taxes, however he did raise existing ones. Many Americans thought his promise meant what Mr. Beat noted - it meant taxes wouldn’t go up.
Was definitely one of the things that cost him the 92’ election.
This was the first time I got to vote in a presidential election. I turned 18 and went into the military that year. It was also the only time my vote mattered. I would go on to vote Republican from 92 to 00 in California. Each time a Democrat would win the state. I would vote for Democrats from 04 until 16, will living in Missouri, Texas, and Tennessee. Each state being won by the Republican candidate.
Dukakis just seemed like that awkward dad stereotype trying to impress his kids by saying 'totally radical' every other sentence.
4:18 Forgetting Truman?
no becuase truman became president after fdr died and was then elected in 1948
The election that got us a low-key feud between the president and The Simpsons
_"Hey, we're just like the Waltons. We're praying for an end to the Depression too!"_
And Dukakis ended up in the depressed bar in Naked Gun 2 1/2
3:26 look at the dandruff
I'm a little older than you so the election I remember first is Mondale vs. Reagan but anyway how could you fail to mention Willie Horton. That probably did as much damage as him driving around in the tank. And I was wondering was there ever a primary as interesting as this Democratic primary.
As Probably Not Martin Van Buren's Descendent, I Can Confidentially Confirm Van Buren Deffinently Said "Dukakis Only Wished He Had My Hair"