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...From quotas to welfare to Willie Horton, race still plays a big role in presidential politics. What can be done to change that...
...because his campaign brain trust--Lee Atwater, James Baker, Roger Ailes And Robert Teeter--discovered the political might of Willie Horton, the pledge of allegiance and the American flag. Armed with nothing mightier than symbols or slogans, Bush's campaign handlers played the electorate like Atwater used to play blues guitar...
...election staff, Bush probably can't do it. The president needed a thousand points of political brilliance to win in 1988. Then, he was dangerously behind in New Hampshire until attacking front-runner Bob Dole with "Senator Straddle" ads and in the general election attacking Dukakis with Willie Horton pieces. And back then, the economy was in much better shape...
...Tsongas continued to join other Democratsand Republicans in criticizing the President theyall hope to unseat in November. Tsongasspecifically mentioned Bush's 1988 advertisementsthat featured furloughed criminal Willie Horton...
...Making welfare the Willie Horton of the '92 campaign would...appeal to and feed a sad, corrosive instinct for negativism and divisiveness that challenges this exquisitely balanced democracy in a fundamental way," Cuomo said, referring to President Bush's 1988 campaign strategy...