Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair of surveys released yesterday gave Dukakis reason for optimism. They show the Republican ticket of Bush and Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle in a virtual dead heat with Dukakis and Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen. Quayle was seen as having a negative impact in both surveys...
...Times poll, conducted over the weekend by telephone, also found that Bentsen far outperformed Quayle in last week's vice presidential debate. But it also found that Dukakis had a 45 percent unfavorable rating, compared with 40 percent unfavorable rating for Quayle...
...white and blue Dukakis-Bentsen signs lined the route, punctuated only rarely by Bush placards...
...This is a tight race, folks, and it's getting tighter every day," he said. Then, in a reference to the vice presidential debate between Bentsen and Quayle, Dukakis said, "And the events of the last week have tightened it up some more...
...best in four years, and Bush benefits. -- Behind the rosy economic numbers of the Reagan boom, middle- class Americans feel squeezed. Once again this election poses a critical question: Are you better off? -- A backlash for the A. C. L. U. -- On the road with Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen, this week' s debaters. -- Shrinking the Underclass -- a campaign essay...