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Despite his formidable lead, Bush has not really turned on the voters. Pollsters find that voters are choosing him without enthusiasm, like restaurant patrons picking succotash over turnips. Bush thus remains vulnerable to any event that could cause people to doubt his character or judgment. His running mate, Dan Quayle, is still a drag. Though elections are not decided on the qualities of the vice-presidential candidates, this campaign has the feel of an exceptional one in which significant numbers of voters are disturbed by the possibility of a President Quayle. Some 54% of those questioned in a Wall Street...
Meanwhile, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, Dukakis' vice presidential running mate, was drawing upon the memory of fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, whose presidential library in Austin was the site for an evening campaign rally...
Then Dukakis was to fly via Wisconsin to California for a full day of campaigning today for that crucial state's 47 electoral votes. Bush and his running mate, Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.), took a respite from campaigning at their Washington homes...
...real connections between the races of 1960 and 1988 are wispy to the point of mere coincidence. A youngish Democratic candidate from Massachusetts (Dukakis, at 54, is eleven years older than Kennedy was in 1960) with an older running mate, a Senator from Texas, campaigns against a sitting Vice President who for eight years served an aging, popular Republican father figure...
...neighboring Ohio, Sen. Dan Quayle, who isBush's running mate, said the economic recoverygenerated during the Reagan-Bush administrationmeans "a job for all who want to work. It meansfor the first time ever we can make and keep thepromise of a job for every American who wants ajob...