"I feel like shooting people!” In the run-up to 1988's US presidential election, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck had some outrageously dark and violent thoughts

"I feel like shooting people!” In the run-up to 1988's US presidential election, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck had some outrageously dark and violent thoughts

With a constitutional amendment forbidding Ronald Reagan from seeking a third term in office, the 1988 US presidential election saw Republican Party nominees George H.W. Bush (the sitting Vice-President) and Dan Quayle facing off against Democratic Party challengers Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen. At the time, few political pundits were prerpared to give Dukakis a sliver of a chance of securing enough electoral votes to emerge as the 41st Pre…