Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peretz, who is also a lecturer on Social Studies, began his speech on the presidential campaign by saying, "I am going to talk about the election--about why Dukakis lost and why Bush won't be able to govern."
The loss had two primary causes. Dukakis's personality and his ideology, Peretz said. "I can count on my one hand the Dukakis voters who were not in his direct employ who were actually enthusiastic supporters of Mike Dukakis on November 8."
The most telling moment in the campaign came during the second debate, when Dukakis was unable to name his personal heroes, Peretz said. "One begins to think that this man's only hero is really himself."
"We are two nations of equal size...[George Bush's ] nation is white, Protestant, breathes clean air and advances towards middle-age. [Michael S. Dukakis'] is everything else..."
"There is going to be much more of a transition along the lines of when [Lyndon] Johnson took over from President Kennedy," says David Runkel who covered the Reagan transition in 1980 for the Philadelphia Bulletin and is now IOP deputy director. "A Dukakis victory would mean a massive change...