Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The aristocratic Vice President would seem like an ideal target. Son of a Wall Street banker and U.S. Senator. Andover. Yale. Kennebunkport. What could be easier? But Bush reversed the normal equation. The man with four names jettisoned his g's, touted his taste for pork rinds and successfully put...
Effective populism requires tapping a wellspring of popular resentment. For Dukakis this is a problem. As a Governor and a politician, he embodies the search for consensus, for mediation. He stands for "partnerships," an idea that is as far from traditional populism as Brookline is from Kansas. During the primaries...
Polls show that populism is a message with punch. For many traditional Democrats, the politics of economic populism goes to the heart of the way they define themselves. It speaks to the very reason that they are Democrats, something that until recently Dukakis has found difficult to do.
What might have been, that most corrosive version of hindsight, should be the title of the Democrats' song of lamentation for this year's campaign. When George Bush and Michael Dukakis were struggling for the nominations of their parties a year ago, voters viewed the Democrats as more effective than...
On the question of which party would better keep the country "strong and prosperous," a slight Republican advantage of 6 points among registered voters in October 1987 has doubled. A smaller but more critical group in the survey -- those likely to vote next Tuesday -- split almost evenly on the visceral...