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Both the Republicans and the Democrats are wooing Southern voters: the GOP Convention is being held in New Orleans, while the Democrats are meeting this week in Atlanta. Bush, a nominal Texan, is stressing his Southern roots, while Dukakis has picked a Southerner, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, as his running mate. But the folks down here don't seem impressed...
With his landslide victory in the California primary last month, Dukakis clinched the top spot. And he's already chosen his running mate, Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas. So there's not a lot of suspense here, aside from the Jackson-Dukakis brouhaha which seems to have passed...
...Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, who seriously considered running for president himself, praised Dukakis for picking Texas Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen as his running mate. "Without a doubt, without question, [the Dukakis Bentsen ticket] is going to do well in the South. Bentsen is a very good choice for the South...
...Lloyd Bentsen, campaigning with Dukakis in Texas last week, may have peaked as well. An oil-state millionaire remembered for his aborted $10,000 breakfast club, the Senate Finance Committee chairman sets off special-interest alarms in some quarters. His claim to being the only Democrat to have beaten George Bush in Texas is a little long in the tooth (it happened in 1970), and his campaign style on display last week was stolid and uninspiring...
...that crazy about Jesse Jackson anyway," Ray Ingram said, an engineer in Houston. "I'm going to vote for Dukakis because "I'm a Democrat. I also like the fact that Lloyd Bentsen is a Texan...