Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reese dates the tide of Republican negative campaigning back to the time of the party's August convention. Dukakis was slow to respond partially because he "has a natural aversion to that kind of campaigning and I think he resisted it longer than his staff wanted," he says...
Reese says he doesn't believe Americans are no longer liberals--simply that Democrats have failed to redefine the word. The Dukakis campaign, by not taking the "L-word" issue as a chance to say what liberalism means, has suffered as a result...
Since Graham lost the Democratic primary, she has been running a sticker campaign against Thompson because her name no longer appears on the ballot. The nominee says he has hired a lawyer "because we think there will be some legal problems...
...Soviet relationship under Mikhail Gorbachev present an immense new foreign policy challenge that the candidates have yet to face: managing what may be the last stages of the cold war and inventing a new world role for the U.S. in an international system that may, in our lifetime, no longer be defined by the East-West struggle. Instead, the foreign policy debate in the campaign has focused mainly on two peripheral issues: drugs and trade...
...America's approach to the world. One is an internationalism of the kind envisioned briefly in the mid-1940s by the Western founders of the U.N. but made impossible by the cold war. In the absence of intractable ideological conflict between the U.S. and the Soviets, internationalism would no longer be a hopelessly utopian idea. (In fact, even during the cold war, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union found a temporary convergence of interests, they have been able jointly to control regional conflicts, such as Sinai, 1956, for example.) The Security Council could try to manage the world...