Word: responded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis should also take some blame for his campaign's inability to respond to the Bush charges, said Reese. The Massachusetts governor, he said, lacks experience in national politics and personally dislikes mudslinging--facts that have strongly stacked the deck against the Democratic nominee...
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...
Dukakis has called SDI a "fantasy," but said he would allocate about $1 billion a year for research, to be ready to respond to any Soviet advances. He opposes both the MX and Midgetman missiles, but supports the B-1 bomber and the Stealth bomber...
...election as a bitter battle for spoils between two competent, albeit uninspired managers, each of whom would cleave to moderate policies if elected. By this reckoning, the lack of cutting issues in the campaign suggests an underlying consensus that the next President will practice budget restraint at home and respond prudently to Mikhail Gorbachev's overtures abroad. "Each candidate is a pragmatist," contends Stuart Eizenstat, who was Jimmy Carter's chief domestic adviser. "Neither is an ideologue. Temperamentally, each is cautious and, within his own party, more or less a centrist...
...Crimson will not respond to the Prince's hallucination about beating The Crimson for the first time ever. We'll simply say this. Had the two teams played, The Crime would have won, 23-2, just like last year...