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For Democratic primary voters—whose prescient sense of electability led to the famously successful McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis nominations—the Kerry pitch worked.
Bush family operatives have done effective demolition jobs on two Democratic presidential candidates, Michael Dukakis and Al Gore. The anti-Dukakis campaign was pure ideology. He was a Massachusetts liberal, a "card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U." He was soft on crime; he opposed the Pledge of Allegiance. The anti...
Kerry will fight back, of course, and he has some serious weaponry, as the controversy over George W. Bush's National Guard service has shown. The Senator's military service, and his cavalcade of veterans, has real resonance with average folks, especially those whose sons and daughters are serving in...
In 1988, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis asked voters whether they wanted “a president who fights for the privileged few, or a president who fights for you.” In 2000, Al Gore ’69 argued that while Republicans fought for ?...
But there's also a fair amount of idle chatter--and a widespread presumption in the media--about the congenital strengths that Republicans have and Democrats lack in presidential contests. The $200 million Bush campaign bankroll is cited. The 1988 demolition of Michael Dukakis is remembered. Democrats are eternally tangled...