Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER his Iowa showing, Bush called together some Republican media big-wigs to plot strategy. These media big boys determined that Dole had won Iowa because he had a good slogan. "Bob Dole--One of Us," it said. Knowing a good political slogan when he sees one, Bush snapped it up. All over New England "George Bush--One of Us" signs sprouted up. Bush won the New Hampshire primary, and coasted into Super Tuesday...
George Bush called on his opponents to abide by the GOP's eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican." When polls showed the VP behind Dole, however, he abandoned the commandment and came out swinging. Bob Dole was, George Bush insisted, a "sunshine patriot." Dole spent two years in a military hospital recuperating from wounds received in World...
...million, three times as much as any Democrat had ever received in a single event. The campaign privately set an ambitious goal of collecting $6.5 million in 1987, then ) proceeded to rake in $10 million. It made Dukakis a front runner before any votes were cast. "Money," says Bob Farmer, the Governor's fund-raising guru, "is the first primary...
...Fund raisers tend to be crass and hard sell," says Joseph Zengerle, a Washington lawyer and Dukakis money-maker. "But Bob brings none of that baggage with him." Farmer's approach is low key, almost to the point of deference. On the phone with a fund raiser from Florida, Farmer is the consummate flatterer. "You were with us when it was unfashionable, my friend," he says. He makes his pitch casually: "Can you put together another $10,000?" Farmer smiles and nods approvingly, winding up the call with his trademark breezy farewell: "You're a great American...
...very aware of it [never beating Harvard]," Brown Coach Bob Woods said. "We just played better this year. It was just one of those things...