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Linebackers: Jack Reybold (6-ft., 1-in. and a lean 210 pounds) leads the Terriers in sacks with five. Do you think he likes to blitz? He is also second on the squad in tackles. Dennis Carson leads the squad in tackles with 90. And with Pat Faucette at the other linebacking spot, this group seems leak-proof...
Dukakis has one other card left to play. In the final fortnight, he is counting on that frequent, and sometimes effective, tactic of a losing candidate: the TV blitz. The campaign has already thrown out his old spots and begun running new ones that feature Dukakis talking quietly and directly to the American people about his views. That too will be the approach of a series of five-minute spots that began airing over the weekend. Dukakis even plans to get his message out in one or more 30-minute addresses, although that ploy will probably send viewers scrambling...
...which he intends to accuse Bush of lying about his record on crime. There is, of course, no guarantee that this effort will work. Bush's campaign has saved about half of its federal campaign funds for late TV and radio ads, and plans to stage as large a blitz as Dukakis. So far, Bush has won the battle of the ads hands down; his latest spot effectively ridicules Dukakis' September ride in a tank...
CALIFORNIA. The seat occupied by Republican Pete Wilson is hardly warm: not since 1952 has its occupant been re-elected. To extend that tradition, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy has been husbanding his cash for a final blitz to rescue his ailing campaign. Wilson is vulnerable for being wishy-washy; he withheld endorsement of the Reagan-Gorbachev INF treaty even longer than Senate Republican leader Bob Dole...
...election, the Reagan campaign launched a $5 million dollar television advertising blitz aimed at discrediting liberals. A bloated, white-haired, red-faced politician--an obvious caricature of then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--was shown trying to drive a sputtering jalopy running out of gas. In 1984, the Republicans successfully added the "tax-and-spend label" to the Democratic image, and liberals began to call themselves "neo-liberals" and "progressives...