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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Carter, Dukakis is trying not to offend. He does not want Jesse Jackson, the runner-up in the primary campaign and the nation's best-know Black politician, to alienate potential white voters and Reagan-Democrats, who might get uncomfortable if Jackson were to have too visible a presence in the Dukakis campaign...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: How Not to Attract Black Voters | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...have solved the cyclical nature of the game by merging it with the influence-peddling business. While most of those who sell access do so only after toiling for the Government at modest wages, these entrepreneurial consultants skip the public-service stopover and move directly from helping elect a politician to selling their ties to him for high fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Access For Sale | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Davis as Jock Ewing on Dallas) or folksy (Andy Griffith as Matlock). But his passionless style fails to register as either character. Dukakis has the mark of a man doomed to be portrayed in TV movies by Sam Waterston. And Bush is still overshadowed by the era's only politician actually to define and surpass his Hollywood model: Ronald Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Playing The Rating Game | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...more picture, one more tribute, one more podium kiss, one more word by a politician about family, and I'm defecting. Probably to Russia, where until Gorbachev came along and ruined everything (with glasnost and Raisa), the leader reigned in splendid, family-free isolation. We didn't even know that Yuri Andropov had a wife until he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Spare Us the Family Album | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...issue of full-time representation. [LoPresti's] a full-time attorney, [while] Bob is a full-time politician. $48,000 or $50,000 is a full-time job and should be taken as such," Monks said...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: LoPresti to Face Travaglini | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

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