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Democratic prospects are brighter in the Northeast, where Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts hope to enhance their national prospects with big re-election wins. Yet their once secure colleague, William O'Neill of Connecticut, has been losing ground to charismatic Republican State Legislator Julie Belaga...
For instance, in 1985, he wrote in the New York Times that “the need for a tax increase has never been greater.” And during the 1988 presidential race, Summers served as a “kitchen cabinet” adviser to Michael S. Dukakis...
At the time of that first Wall Street Journal story, Summers was dipping his toes into politics for the very first time—quietly stepping into the public eye as an economics advisor to the Michael S. Dukakis presidential campaign. Dukakis lost to George H.W. Bush, of course, but...
With aftershock there usually comes second-guessing and recrimination. Picking over the tactical blunders and missed opportunities is a tradition in any post-election recovery. But political parties tend to make major course corrections only in the wake of catastrophe. That's what happened after the 1988 race, when the...
Throughout his 2004 campaign, George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak...