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...more likely to be turned off by such things as the gay-rights and pro-choice movements. Understanding that, Republican presidential candidates from Richard Nixon to Bush have targeted white Southern voters by stressing economic and social conservatism -- including thinly veiled appeals to racism, like the notorious Willie Horton ads of 1988. The results have been divisive but spectacular. Since 1968, except when Carter won in '76, G.O.P. presidential candidates have owned the South and the Democrats have seen their once secure Southern base shrink until its mainstays were blacks and poor whites. This year the task facing Clinton...
...Floyd Brown ((creator of the Willie Horton ads in 1988)) is ready to air a new attack advertisement, featuring Gennifer Flowers...
...probably join the fray. He predicts a "long, hard fight," and he proved in 1988 that he can give as good as he gets. In fact, it was Mr. Straight himself who first struck at the Massachusetts prison-furlough program, which the Republicans then spun into the infamous Willie Horton commercials. And now that the people who brought us Willie Horton are back with a new anti-Clinton ad campaign, this cycle's candidate is signaling clearly that he won't pull a Dukakis and roll over without a fight. Clinton told TIME he is "not surprised...
...Michael Dukakis was, I think, really takenaback by the Willie Horton experience, and didn'tknow how to respond," he said. "Bill Clinton isnot going to take a Willie Horton and notrespond...
...Brown claimed Bush could prevent vitriolicspots--if he did more than just make statements todistance himself from producers like Floyd Brown,who developed the Willie Horton...