Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gov. Michael S. Dukakis asserted yesterday that voters by the millions are giving his underdog campaign "a very strong second look" in the waning days of the race for the White House, while George Bush said Democrats were "grossly unfair" to say his advertising is tinged with racism.
Dukakis combined an attack on the Reagan-Bush administration's record on drugs with ritual declarations that the political tide was turning in his favor. "His administration has cut deals with foreign drug runners. I'm going to cut aid" to their nations, said the Democratic nominee.
Dukakis was trying desperately to reverse poll deficits in several large Electoral College battlegrounds at once. He ventured unexpectedly into N. W. Jersey, crooning, a la Bruce Springsteen, "I was born to run and born to win." But Bush, Reagan, Quayle and Co. were pouring it on in Ohio, where...
ABC said its survey of North Carolina--once Dukakis' strongest hope for a Southern success--gave the vice president an 11-point edge. Dukakis held a four-point margin in a New York survey.
Yet the politics of the issue preclude that. Perhaps Bush and Dukakis figure that AIDS patients don't vote and that those who do are prejudiced against those who contract the disease. And perhaps they are right.