Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University of Houston Political Scientist Richard Murray thinks he knows what will decide the election in the Lone Star State. Says he: "The key is, Can the Democrats survive the social-issues pounding and make the economy issue stick?" That is probably the No. 1 question all over the country...
! On the other hand, Bruce Cook, Democratic state central committeeman for St. Clair County, recalls a coal miner telling him that "once a guy makes $30,000 a year, he buys a riding lawn mower and votes Republican." These voters, many of them Reagan Democrats, are conservative on social issues...
Dukakis, spending the weekend in Boston, accused several of the vice president's closest aides of using the White House as a "back door for foreign lobbyists" and declared that "in a Dukakis White House, the staff will pledge allegiance to only one flag--Old Glory."
Dukakis also twitted Bush Business president of the Senate for never proposing that senators recite the Pledge of Allegiance as part of their legislative business.
That comment, and his reference to pledging allegiance to only one flag, was the nominee's response to Bush's frequent criticism of Dukakis for vetoing a state bill aimed at requiring public school teachers to lead their classes in reciting the pledge. Dukakis says he was advised that the...