Word: gop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN Ronald Reagan stormed into office in a landslide victory in 1980, a large number of Republican senatorial candidates rode in on his coattails--enough to give the GOP control of the Senate until 1986. With a working coalition in the House composed of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats, Reagan was able to push through much of his administration's conservative agenda despite significant opposition to his policies...
...tenor and substance of the GOP ticket's campaign advertising on television dominated the political dialogue yesterday...
...same TV program, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, (R-Kan.) a former Bush opponent in the GOP primaries, also was asked if the Bush campaign's Willie Horton ads were racially motivated...
Goodin said the GOP campaign's television commercials focused not on Horton but on "how he got out of prison." He said correctly that Massachusetts granted furloughs to convicted first-degree murderers serving life without the possibility of parole. That policy was rescinded last spring...
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Dukakis' runningmate, said he was giving himself the job ofanswering GOP charges. "Every time they issue afalsehood, I'm going to take them on andstraighten that one out," he told workers at thehuge General Electric appliance plant inLouisville...