Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Democratic strategy now is to link Bush and Quayle inextricably. In the final presidential debate, Dukakis will surely do his best to remind voters that a vote for Bush is a vote for Quayle. They may not turn the polls around, but after last week's showdown in Omaha...
During the end game of a close election, the millions of votes and millions of dollars boil down to a dinky little figure: 270, the electoral college majority that takes its owner to the White House. The battle for that number is an uneven one. For a generation, Republicans have...
is Dukakis' Eastern anchor, as even Republicans privately concede. But his advantage has shrunk, tempting Bush strategists to plan the kind of mischief they have perpetrated in Massachusetts. "We're going to put enough into New York to make Dukakis come back to hold us off," promises deputy campaign manager...
is firmly in Bush's hands. Dukakis, who had boasted in August that he would win the state, is belatedly retreating. Last week his two chief organizers transferred to the Midwest, and more are to follow. He has also given up much of the Cotton South. From a meeting of...
could turn out to be for Dukakis what Russia was for Napoleon. He invested his vice-presidential choice there and nine days of his own precious time, but Bush still leads. The only consolation is that the Bentsen gambit has forced Bush to work hard in his home state; like...