Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the 21% who considered drugs the most important campaign issue, the vote split evenly, despite Dukakis' efforts to tie Bush to the "drug-running Panamanian dictator" Manuel Noriega. The environment should have been a "gimme" for Dukakis, Gallup found, but Bush stole it by pointing to Boston's polluted...
Sixty percent of the voters in the ABC poll said defense spending should stay the same or be increased; not surprisingly, nearly 70% of this group went for Bush. Dukakis got 74% of the minority who think the Pentagon needs less money. Crime -- sometimes a code word for race -- was...
Of the five issues that were most important to voters surveyed by NBC, Dukakis made his case on just one: among the 21% who believed in continuing programs for the middle class, 64% voted for the Governor.
A general sense of well-being went a long way toward carrying the day for Bush. When asked about the future of the economy, 28% of those questioned by NBC said they thought it would be better, 16% said worse, and 48% said about the same. Dukakis won 73% of...
But going negative had its cost. According to the Associated Press, 13% of the voters who backed Bush and 19% of those who favored Dukakis said they made their choice primarily out of dislike for the other candidate, a reminder of Henry Adams' warning that politics can be the systematic...