Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to reach out to the people based on ideas, based on the direction that you want to move towards. If people saw an alternative to Bush, they'd vote for it. The Dukakis-Bentsen campaign stayed in a grey area far too long. It didn't energize its natural constituency--Blacks, labor, the disadvantaged," Bolling said...
...Bush campaign spokesman Mark Goodin said that for Bentsen and Jackson "to insinuate that the furlough issue has racial overtones is absolutely ridiculous and stems from desperation politics...
...Bentsen, interviewed on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley," said if Bush wins on the basis of such a campaign, "I think that'd be a tragedy, and I think that's one of the reasons the American people will turn against them, with that kind of campaign, and that's why I think we're going to put it all together...
...Quayle, in his debate with Lloyd Bentsen, was heedless enough to bring up Kennedy's name. Bentsen, who has good reflexes, saw the opening: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Michael Dukakis has been more dignified, but more relentless, about comparing himself with Kennedy, or at any rate comparing 1960 with 1988. Again and again, from the Democratic Convention on, he has told audiences, "Twenty-eight years ago, another son of Massachusetts and another son of Texas were our nominees . . ." Dukakis wants to borrow a small radiance of analogy. Ted Sorensen, the author of so many of Kennedy's speeches...
TEXAS Lloyd Bentsen is a cinch to defend his Senate seat...