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However much these positions may hurt Kerry's standing with traditional Democratic constituencies, they may broaden his appeal among independents and make it harder for Republicans to stick him in a little cubby labeled DUKAKIS REDUX. He co-sponsored a "two strikes, you're out" bill in 1996 that would...
In 1988, Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty and his veto of a bill requiring public-school teachers to recite the Pledge of Allegiance spurred Republicans to claim he was out of touch with the American mainstream. The Bush-Cheney team will echo the assault, noting that Kerry also opposes...
And if that Democrat is John Kerry, how would Republicans come after him? Although he has spent nearly two decades in the Senate, it's his two years as Lieutenant Governor under Michael Dukakis in the 1980s that will form the template for the attack. Sixteen years ago this winter...
In 1988 the Bush team lampooned Dukakis in a now famous ad in which he drove a tank while wearing an outsize military helmet. This time Republicans will take pains to honor Kerry's Vietnam heroism but will single out the times he voted to cut or freeze defense-and...
If a candidate has the misfortune of actually encouraging a pre-established, unfavorable narrative, it’s all over. This happened to Michael Dukakis, whose calm answer to a hypothetical death-penalty question about his wife being raped became fodder for the running story that he was dull and...