West Virginia, 1988

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hey all -- I might have asked this before but take pity on an old man.

Michael Dukakis may be the most inept campaigner in my lifetime.  (I don't count McGovern, because we really don't know what he might have done had the Eagleton thing not blown up. Not that he would have won but...)

So refresh my memory.  How did Dukakis win West Virginia and lose Vermont?  I know H.W. Bush was heir to Reagan and a more moderate heir at that.  But still...

Things were a little different in 1988 than today.