More 80's Nostalgia

I stumbled on this article last year but wasn't able to find it again until today. Amazing what a little down time wrought by minor surgery combined with patience will lead you to discover.

Although the premise of the story is flawed -- the 1988 election wasn't really that close at all -- I'll accept for the sake of argument that it was at least "winnable" for Dukakis had a few things gone differently. I started reading this article thinking it was your typical left-wing whining about if-only-the-people-were-as-smart-as-we-were, but it's actually somewhat plausible.

Of course, then this speech would have been a little different.