when michael dukakis was running against george h.w. bush. i didn't know anyone who thought the country was going to take a major turn for the worse because of the outcome of that election. the stakes seemed about as low as they could get in a presidential election. but as i've said before on this program repeatedly, whenever the stakes appear low in a presidential election, you always have to remember united states supreme court. and so, for the democratic voters who just weren't excited enough about michael dukakis, or the republican voters who voted for a guy who used to support planned parenthood, the truth is that that time, at that time they couldn't possibly have known they were going to change life in america profoundly, decades later, with their vote for george h.w. bush, or the decision simply not to vote. same thing in 2000, when george w. bush was running against al gore. the stakes did not seem high. that's why enough people voted for ralph nader as a third- party candidate in florida to give the electoral college, thanks to the