Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent New York Times survey points to some of the flaws in tailor-making a platform to the regional voter's profile. The poll found that Democratic voters who support Gore were not substantially more "hawkish" on security issues, that Gephardt supporters were not more likely to blame Japan for the U.S.'s trade woes and that Dukakis backers were not most worried about a war in Central America...
...Albert J. Gore, Jr. '69 (D.-Tenn.):"On election night, I would send a telegram to theSecretary of Education, William Bennett, and tellhim to start cleaning out his desk," Gore recentlytold a University of North Carolina audience.Nevertheless, he does not rule out SecretaryBennett's proposal of linking Federal assistanceto colleges to "some kind of responsibleperformance at controlling [tuition] costs...
Dukakis is the only candidate who has run a government. Sen. Paul Simon, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and Sen. Albert Gore '69 have built their careers on Capitol Hill, while Jesse Jackson has never held elected office. Dukakis is the only one who has balanced a budget, formulated a legislative program, led a cabinet, and acted as an executive. He has learned the need for compromise and agreement, which will serve him well in Washington. He has drawn his experience from the act of governing, not sitting in a comfortable Washington office building worrying about PACs and interest groups...
DUKAKIS has proved himself a "man of the people." He rides to the office on the T and he buys his suits from Filene's basement. Dukakis, in fact, has better proven himself to be "one of us" in the South than has Gore, whose Washington upbringing, prep school/Harvard ties and liberal voting record are taken as evidence that he has betrayed the South...
...many issues Dukakis shows fundamental disagreement with other candidates and he emerges with more of a discernable identity than others. He repudiates Gore's militaristic foreign policy, Simon's ludicrous public works-balanced budget proposals, and Jackson's unfeasible visions...