Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, "but we tried to find interesting ways to cover it." He points with special pride to a series of essays in which the magazine explored the issues that received short shrift from the candidates: health care, the underclass, homelessness, relations with the Soviets. The Grapevine section took readers behind the scenes for exclusive candid snapshots of the campaign. TIME also kept a close watch on the coterie of aides managing the candidates. "It was the year of the handlers," says Isaacson. "When I was out on the trail, I was surprised by how little access the press...
...product of golf academies and genteel collegiate teams, Norman, like Ray Floyd and Lee Trevino before him, took a tougher road. "The gambling gave me a killer instinct," he asserts. With his minuscule salary, he could not afford to lose. In one match Norman was three holes behind with four holes left to play. Several hundred dollars in the red, he pressed (essentially doubling the stakes) on the 16th and then again on the 18th. Had he lost he would have had to cough up a nonexistent $1,200; instead he ended up $800 ahead. That night, after dinner...
...Dole campaign was sitting tight. At a strategy session on the Wednesday before the primary, it was decided not to use negative ads. By Saturday, Richard Wirthlin's tracking polls showed Dole going from 5 points behind to 5 points ahead, and at one juncture Wirthlin referred to Dole as "Mr. President." The Dole campaign was unable to put together a new ad in time to get it on the air over the weekend. When they wanted to use an old ad, they were told that the air slots were already filled...
Roger Ailes had to make George Bush, who is not very good at hating, hate Michael Dukakis. Ailes went around spreading the word that Michael Dukakis is "Mr. Elbows and Knees" when it comes to dirty campaigning, that Kitty was behind the release of the Biden tape, that Dukakis had mental problems he was hiding, that he "is a classic narcissist...
...says -- but a Democratic Congress won' t make it easy. -- How the new President took the White House: by sweeping the South and taking key industrial states in the Midwest. -- If Michael Dukakis is such a competent manager, why was his presidential campaign so poorly managed? -- Nine behind- the- scenes moments that shaped and determined the course of the 1988 election. -- Historian Garry Wills says Bush won by embracing his own version of populism. -- Seven new faces in the Senate...