Word: mainstreams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush Campaign has pointed repeatedly to Dukakis' Harvard ties as evidence that the governor is so liberal as to be outside the American mainstream. The results of The Crimson poll seem to bear out this charge. Thirty-eight percent of Harvard undergraduates surveyed called them-selves liberals. About 44 percent of all students said they held moderate beliefs, and only 17 percent referred to themselves as conservatives, the poll showed...
...Does that mean that George Bush, as he likes to say, has a far better sense of mainstream America than...
...label. I'm not a label. And I reject that. The way Bush is using it is of one who doesn't have values, who condones permissiveness, who's outside the mainstream. That's a perversion. Am I a liberal in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy? Yes, I am. I'm also a man who balanced budgets and cut taxes and put five times as many drug pushers in jail as my predecessor...
Zogby disagreed, saying that supporters of theresolution were "not out of the mainstream" of theparty and added that "70 percent of the delegatesat the Democratic convention" supported aPalestinian state
Bush, the leader in all the polls, said there was a "great divide" separating himself from Dukakis on many issues. He proclaimed that his own election would mean a "mainstream mandate" for the next four years...