Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, the Democrats need to stream-line their message. Every piece of campaign literature and every TV spot should be focused around two or three central issues. Mike Dukakis was tossed by Bush from Crime one week to defense the next week to taxes the next. The result was a...
In the second clash in as many months between the governor and the predominantly Democratic legislature, many Republican senators fought to uphold Weld's veto of a bill which would roll back his cabinet member's salaries from $85,000 to the lower levels that the Dukakis administration paid.
As presidential candidates, Tsongas and Wilder give new meaning to the term underdog. Neither has ready access to big bucks. Tsongas left the Senate six years ago suffering from cancer. He says that he beat the disease. Conquering his image as a cool, cerebral Ivy League lawyer in the Dukakis...
Most cynical of all was Atwater's constant harping on Willie Horton, a Black convict who raped a woman while on a furlough from prison. Referring to Dukakis, Atwater said he would "strip the bark off the little bastard" and "make Willie Horton his running mate."
Apparently, the compass couldn't help him find peace of mind. He apologized to many of his former enemies. He wrote to Turnipseed, seeking the Democrat's forgiveness. In a Life article, he apologized for his nasty jibes at Dukakis: "I am sorry for both statements, the first for its...