Campaigns from the Archives
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West Virginia native.
- Newsweek magazine, October 1976.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “I Like Ike” jingle—one of the first major campaign songs in the television age—helped propel him to the presidency in 1952.
- Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon meet ahead of their first televised debate of the 1960 presidential campaign. The hour-long event, held in Chicago, was viewed by some 66 million Americans. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images
- Democratic presidential candidates, circa 1992. From right to left: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, former California Governor Jerry Brown, and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin.
- A campaign poster for Vice President Richard Nixon’s 1962 bid for California governor. Nixon would lose the election to incumbent Governor Pat Brown by five percentage points.
- TIME Magazine, August 1972.
- Clinton/Gore ad circa 1992.
- Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H. W. Bush faced off in their second and final presidential debate at UCLA on October 13, 1988.
- Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. Circa 1976.
- TIME Magazine, June 1984.
- Former Vice President Walter Mondale delivering an address to supporters. Circa 1984.
- A United Auto Workers campaign poster in support of 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
- Then-Senator Barack Obama carried Indiana in the 2008 presidential election — the first time the state had voted for a Democratic candidate since 1964.
- Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Clinton. Circa 1992.
- TIME Magazine, July 1995.
- In the 1976 West Virginia Senate election, Senator Robert C. Byrd won a fourth term without Republican opposition, receiving over 500,000 votes—the most ever cast for a Democratic candidate in a statewide race in West Virginia. Byrd went on to become the longest-serving senator in U.S. history.
