Who ran a worse campaign Hillary Clinton Or Michael Dukasis

[Kodak]

Why are people conflating candidate quality with campaigning?

Hillary Clinton was clearly a worse candidate from the start, simply because she'd been in the public eye for so long and wasn't going to change anyone's minds. All she could do was try to stay out of the headlines and run a good GOTV operation, and she failed to do the former.

Dukakis had a shot, made a terrible first impression and let Bush walk all over him.

As a further point, most voters from 1988 will recall the tank image when they think of Dukakis, which was a huge error on his part. "Basketful of deplorables" was the worst thing to come from the Clinton campaign, and it barely had an effect on the polls.

From the DNC to election day, Dukakis ran the worse campaign.