Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The rest of the convention, the Republicans will try to paint Dukakis as an ultraliberal who is soft on crime and lacks foreign policy experience. They'll also bash Massachusetts, and they'll take a few cheap shots at Harvard liberals. And they'll use the "L" word a lot...
"Our campaign is moving full steam ahead with plenty of momentum from the convention," he said.
The survey of 502 likely voters on Friday and Saturday, the two days immediately following the Democratic Convention, said Dukakis was favored by 50 percent and Bush by 40 percent. A pre-convention survey in Texas by Hart had the two candidates tied at 46 percent each.
Once in his office, Dukakis took up where he left off before the convention and became immersed in efforts to defuse legislative protests over his use of a line-item veto to bring the state budget into balance.
THEY predicted that the South would rise again. Who would have thought that a liberal-easterner would have been the one to bring the South back to prominence. But it's pretty obvious that the Democrats, following Democratic presidential nominee Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' cue, went after the Southern vote...