(even though it was obvious that he was out of contention for the nomination) by the party insiders, in order to make sure Jesse didn't win Illinois. There was no other candidate who could truly compete with Jesse for progressive votes in Illinois-Dukakis clearly couldn't, since his campaign was deeply conservative in many respects.
If Jesse had taken that state, he'd have had a real chance of getting nominated-or, at worst, Dukakis would have been obiged to incorporate at least some of Jackson's policy ideas(most of which were much more popular than Jesse himself) in the party platform, and to put some serious money into voter registration campaigns(something the party didn't want to do,because they were paranoid about scaring white suburban voters-a group that wouldn't have voted for any Dem for president in '88, includng Fritz"they've heard of me in South Carolina" Hollings).
But no, we couldn't have that...we HAD to have Dukakis imposed as our nominee on a homophobic, antichoice, insanely militaristic program(I mean, really-a pledge to increase war spending by 6% a year-which was more than even Reagan ever increased it)? ...because he was "electable".
Boy, that sure worked out swell, didn't it?
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