Hypothetical question - the year's 1988 and you live in Connecticut

[WorldResident]

There are two major elections on your ballot:

President:

George Bush - President
Dan Quayle - Vice President

or

Michael Dukakis - President
Lloyd Bentsen - Vice President

Senator:

Joseph Lieberman - Democrat
Lowell Weicker - Republican

Cast your ballot!

PS Hopefully the moderators will agree on this, but I feel there's no unreasonable answer. If you vote Bush/Quayle, we should still presume you would currently vote for the Democratic candidate in 2008. And the Senate issue should spark a reasonable discussion with either position.

[DemKR]

1. this is so funny, because I asked my mom the very same question this morning

I was only one year old in Nov. 1988, and we lived in Connecticut at the time.

I'd have to say for President & Vice President, Mike Dukakis & Lloyd Bentsen.

This was 1988, and it would be tough, but I would have voted for Lieberman just as my mom did. While if this were a 2006 ballot between Lieberman (I) and Weicker (who became independent in 1991, I believe), I would vote for Weicker.

The reason in 1988 being that I would have been a Democrat just as I am now, wanting to build on a Senate majority.

[LeftishBrit]

2. I live in England, not Connecticut; but I followed the 1988 election closely, and can answer these

I was a great Dukakis fan; probably one of the few anywhere in the world and perhaps the only one in Britain. (BTW, I had been to Boston, and thought that Massachusetts seemed to be much better run under Dukakis than the UK under Thatcher.) But then I have always had a tendency to be enthusiastic about people who don't arouse the same in others - I'm also one of the few who thinks that Michael Foot would have been a very good PM of the UK, though an ineffective candidate. So definitely Dukakis over Daddy Bush! I still REALLY wish he'd won; I think the world would have been a better place now, especially as Dubya would probably never have gotten anywhere near being president if his father had lost that time.

And because I was paying very close attention to the presidential election, I also took note of some of the state elections - some of them were reported in the British media - and I do remember Lieberman running. And since you're asking directly: I preferred Weicker. I think this must be the ONLY time when I preferred a Republican to a Dem. As far as I remember, Lieberman appeared to be running to the right of his opponent, and was backed by a horrible right-wing journal, 'National Review'.

That's what I mean when I say I've detested Lieberman as long as anyone here.