Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts to portray Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as soft on crime, Bush has relentlessly reiterated the story of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a Maryland woman while on a weekend furlough from a Massachusetts prison...
Dukakis's inability to respond to these attacks may well cost him the election. Polls show that voters overwhelmingly believe Bush will be tougher on crime, despite Dukakis' impressive record of reducing crime in the bay state. And the states that Dukakis must win--New York, California and Texas--are domimated by crime-sensitive city dwellers and law-and-order voters...
...time for America to take back the streets," Bush said, calling the new police backing "an exclamation point" for his campaign. Both he and Dukakis have made much of endorsements from law-enforcement organizations during a campaign in which Bush has sought to portray Dukakis as soft on crime...
...fact, the emphasis on this crime and killing mode of historical analysis, Frye believes, is the root of many problems in the Middle East today...
Dukakis also was faulted in the Harris poll for his response to Bush's offensive. Fifty-six percent agreed with the statement, "He seems not to know how to defend himself against the serious charges Bush has made about him on crime and on being a liberal out of the mainstream of American life...