Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"It isn't who wants George Bush or Michael Dukakis this election day; it's who wants him enough to go to the polls and vote for him. The trick is to get them to want to [vote] enough," he says. "Part of that is trying to find a message...
The Institute of Politics (IOP) could not have found anyone more involved with the current political scene than Richard Hatcher. Now serving part-time as a senior advisor to Presidential hopeful Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Hatcher was the vice chairman of Jesse Jackson's national campaign this year and chairman...
As a top adviser to Jackson this year, Hatcher sat in on many of the key meetings at the Democratic convention last July, in which Jackson and Dukakis resolved their differences and agreed to join forces in the Massachusetts governor's quest for the presidency. He says, however, that the...
The Jackson adviser says one of Dukakis' key mistakes was his failure to tell Jackson he had selected Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen for the vice presidential spot.
The Dukakis campaign asserted at the time that Jackson could not be reached, but Hatcher counters that The secret service is able to get hold of any presidential candidate at any time. Hatcher adds, however, that the mistake was due to the relative inexperience of the Dukakis organization rather than...