Word: clevelandism
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...Cleveland Browns are the Democratic Party of the National Football League...
...Cleveland native and a life-long Browns fan, I have the right to say this. The Browns have disappointed me far more than Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis...
...Cleveland's chances to return to the AFC Championship game took a hard hit Sunday. The Browns are 6-5 and in third place in the AFC Central...
Those words were President Grover Cleveland's coda after he narrowly lost the 1888 election to Benjamin Harrison on the issue of tariff reform. A century later, it is dismaying to contemplate the nation's march of progress toward the perfection of its democratic institutions. Imagine George Bush or Michael Dukakis having the temerity to claim that his campaign was waged on the battlefield of "honest principle." Or better yet, picture either candidate rising above "cowardly subterfuge...
Dukakis campaigned without letup on his pledge to stand up for "average working families." Grabbing rest when he could on his plane, he flew to asunrise political service in Cleveland, then arally in St. Louis, where he was greeted by a bandplaying "Rock Around the Clock." Still to come wasmore campaigning on the West Coast, then anothermiddle-of-the-night flight to an Iowa rally andelection-morning appearances in Michigan...