Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then Dukakis was to fly via Wisconsin to California for a full day of campaigning today for that crucial state's 47 electoral votes. Bush and his running mate, Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.), took a respite from campaigning at their Washington homes.
"There have been a number of rather blatantly race-conscious signals that have had the impact of instilling ungrounded fear in whites and alientation from Blacks," Jackson told reporters after the 90-minute breakfast with Dukakis.
"The use of the Willie Horton example is designed to create the most horrible psycho-sexual fears," Jackson said. "The furlough ad with black and brown faces rotating in and out of jail, the use of the Jackson-Dukakis ticket symbolism, which is distortion, referring to me as a Chicago...
Dukakis made no mention of the prison furlough issue in a short statement after the breakfast. He said only that it had been a "good, constructive meeting" and that he was pleased by the Black leaders' commitment to his campaign.
Kitty Dukakis, the Democratic nominee's wife, appeared on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" to say her husband had "underestimated how vitriolic, how vicious, how negative those false attacks were" by the Bush campaign.