Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because Cambridge's voting machines were illequipped to deal with Graham's write-in/sticker campaign, widespread confusion enveloped the election, with each side accusing the other of sabotage...
...Massachusetts governor should have won groups over to his side on issues while he stood 17 points above the Republican candidate in the polls, and large blocs of people still disliked Bush as a candidate, said Squier. Instead, Dukakis waited until it was too late, he said...
...headed for a fancy hotel, a vestige of the Raj. And I would largely miss this side of the Indian city. Like most tourists, I would see the tourist sites--the great caves at Elephanta, the Victorian railway station, Malabar Hills. Unavoidable as poverty and suffering are in India, I also did not seek them...
...general election campaign, Dukakis didn't even offer the voters a choice. Only when he faced incredibly long odds, did Dukakis find his voice--a liberal voice--and begin to ignite the passions of the electorate. It was his last-ditch populist crusade of "I'm on your side" which fueled hopes of a long-shot victory. It was his long-awaited defense of liberalism which began to bring the Democrats back home...
...this election has been that while George Bush was bashing and mischaracterizing liberal principles, he kidnapped the mainstream liberal positions of the Democratic Party--daycare, education, the environment and defense of the middle class. Bush said he wanted a "kindler, gentler" nation and he realized his more conservative side--which grants tax breaks to the rich and wages negative campaigns--couldn't bring that about...