Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush, the leader in all the polls, said there was a "great divide" separating himself from Dukakis on many issues. He proclaimed that his own election would mean a "mainstream mandate" for the next four years.
President Reagan campaigned in Wisconsin and Ohio, scoffing at Dukakis' claims to being a Democrat in the Harry Truman mold. "I'll tell you one thing, if he's Harry Truman I'm Roger Rabbit," said the Republican campaign surrogate-in-chief.
LAST year at this time, the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) became the first organization of its kind to call its own state "an undesirable place in which to practice" medicine. And even though the MMS and the American Medical Association are both supposed to remain politically neutral, the hint was...
The half million doctors in this country are normally a Republican bloc of voters. But the word in the medical community is that they wouldn't have automatically voted Republican this year if Dukakis weren't the Democratic candidate.
"If [Sen. Lloyd] Bentsen were running, he'd get my vote. But since he's not, I'm voting for Bush," a doctor friend of mine told me recently. He wouldn't listen to the argument that voting for Dukakis was the next best thing. Nothing has alarmed him--and...