Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the Bush machine was concentrating on the South, and especially on South Carolina, where Saturday's primary served as an all-important prologue to Super Tuesday. In the end, it paid off: Bush won South Carolina handily, with 48% of the votes, compared with 21% for Bob Dole and 19% for Pat Robertson...
...York City. Roger Ailes, the Bush campaign's $25,000-a-month media consultant, winds down at home from an all-night session at his office, where he has been polishing two Bush television ads. One touts Bush's record, the other attacks Dole for supporting the national commission on the deficit, which the ad charges was proposed by Mario Cuomo, the "liberal Democratic Governor of New York." An Ailes assistant copies the ads and sends them by messenger to Pollster Robert Teeter and to campaign headquarters in Washington...
...chief of staff, knocks on the door of the Vice President's suite at the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Bush, who has been up for 45 minutes, is eating a breakfast of cereal, fruit and yogurt. Fuller provides the latest breakdown from Tuesday's nonbinding Vermont primary (Bush has beaten Dole 49% to 39%) and then runs through the themes to be stressed during the five-state swing today: strong defense and "stability." Each day the campaign carefully focuses its message on a simple idea. Fuller reminds Bush to avoid mentioning Dole or Robertson by name but to reaffirm the stability...
...affiliates in a back room at the restaurant. The campaign's goal is to get as many images on as many local stations as possible. Bush looks each interviewer in the eye, as he has been coached by Ailes to do. His aides smile as Bush keeps mentioning "stability." "Dole acted like talking to us was a chore," notes Diane Pertner of WXFL. "But the Vice President was relaxed and obviously very interested...
Koocher said that Dole may have fared better at Harvard than he did in the nation because only the more conservative voters decided to cast their ballots, and most people consider Dole more conservative than Bush...