Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even when Dukakis finally gave his lukewarm endorsement of liberal principles, he had to qualify it--I might be a liberal, he said, but I can balance budgets. That argument reinforces the idea that liberals are sappy but warmhearted people incapable of competent fiscal management--an unusual accusation to shy...
About half of all eligible voters chose not to cast ballots in this election. The Democratic mistake--made in the wake of their convention with Dukakis ahead in the polls--was to believe that they could win without tapping into the disenfranchised elements of the silent electorate. Millions of Americans...
But there was a difference between the two candidates. Dukakis was simply too inarticulate to express that difference until the waning days of the campaign. He could have won this election, but like most politicians he lacked the fortitude to tamper with the electorate, and take his chances with a...
A buoyant Massachusetts Republican Party celebrated George Bush's victory last night and predicted the "rebirth of the two-party system in Massachusetts" as a result of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' loss in the presidential election.
Malone seemed to be the heir apparent of the Massachusetts Republicans, saying in interviews and in his concession speech that he would "take a hard look at the governor's seat in '90." And onlookers were even more optimistic, saying Malone would knock the defeated Dukakis out of the State...