Word: boater
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...candidates always do, and Obama will use skills developed over the long primary season. Or is there hope in the fact that decency is a big part of both candidates' "brands"? If so, swift-boating could backfire. But it never has before. And the most enthusiastic and skilled swift-boater so far--George Bush the Elder, who built his campaign against Michael Dukakis around the Pledge of Allegiance and a furloughed convict named Willie Horton--was also someone peddling decency as part of his official persona. History shows that any candidate who relies on the voters to punish a swift...
...stumped across Iowa last week, a few people dug out their Gephardt yard signs from 1988. "I don't think the Democrats would find a better candidate," said Herb Goettsch, who came to a fund raiser in Bettendorf wearing a 14-year-old boater that Gephardt autographed the last time they met. But first, the House has to be won. The hardest-working man in politics has to take it one November at a time...
...stumped across Iowa last week, a few people dug out their Gephardt yard signs from 1988. "I don't think the Democrats would find a better candidate," said Herb Goettsch, who came to a fund raiser in Bettendorf wearing a 14-year-old boater that Gephardt autographed the last time they met. But first, the House has to be won. The hardest-working man in politics has to take it one November at a time...