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While Quayle campaigned with Bush in Tennessee, Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen tended to his Senate duties...
...Bentsen and Quayle plan to hold their only debate of the campaign on Oct. 5 in Omaha, Neb. Dukakis and Bush will meet again Oct. 13 or 14 in Los Angeles for their final debate...
Spokesmen for the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign said that they have not yet received the invitation and could not comment...
...then, none of the candidates live up to their TV models. Lloyd Bentsen, the tall, craggy Texan, could go for either tough (the late Jim Davis as Jock Ewing on Dallas) or folksy (Andy Griffith as Matlock). But his passionless style fails to register as either character. Dukakis has the mark of a man doomed to be portrayed in TV movies by Sam Waterston. And Bush is still overshadowed by the era's only politician actually to define and surpass his Hollywood model: Ronald Reagan...
Family show, family rhetoric. In their acceptance speeches, Dukakis invoked family seven times; Bush, six; Quayle, eleven; Bentsen, a mere five. Every issue has become a family issue. Dukakis promises the "kind of America that provides American workers and their families" -- would single workers not have merited? -- "with at least 60 days' notice when a factory or a plant shuts down" and "jobs -- and I mean good jobs, jobs you can raise a family on." Bush averred that in business he learned that jobs "meant creating opportunity, which meant happy families." The unit of measure, and manipulation, in politics...