Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The scene on campus during the last election, Rottenberg says, was far from apathetic. Supporters of then-Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis organized in each house, displayedcampaign posters in their dorm windows, sold morethan 2000 T-shirts, and woke up early to holdDukakis signs in the Cambridge traffic.
Rottenberg says campus political strategies,like national ones, adjusts to the candidates inany particular election year. Dukakis struggledwith an image as a cold-blooded technocrat, so hisyouthful supporters sought to "pep people up" and"generate excitement."
Worries about the economy are on the verge of putting some California suburbs -- and probably the state -- out of Bush's reach. In 1988 Dukakis won high-growth Contra Costa County, across the bay from San Francisco, with a 3- point margin. Mary Wilson, who manages the Bush campaign in...
Even in De Kalb County, Georgia, where unemployment hovers below the national average at 6.3%, Bush faces a formidable challenge. Nestled east of Atlanta, De Kalb provided the backdrop to the movie Driving Miss Daisy, and is home to a diverse mix of rich and poor, white and black, Republican...
A George Bush operative told a group of reporters at the G.O.P. convention four years ago that "a presidential campaign is just like a war." The take- no-prisoners Bush juggernaut rolled out of New Orleans and three months later routed opponent Michael Dukakis. Fair warning to Bill Clinton: if...