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Dukakis last week finally gave them something to picture and write about. After months of campaigning like an incumbent, with only a few events a day, he is now at last running like a challenger, spending up to 14 hours a day on the stump. Bush is going in the opposite direction; one day last week he relaxed and worked in his hotel room all morning and did not hit the campaign trail until noon. If the Republicans have hit cruising speed, though, they won't admit it. "Watch how fast we go and where...
...still win," says a G. O. P. pollster. But as Bush holds on to a commanding lead, the Duke needs a big break -- plus more of the populist passion he showed last week. -- Jesse Jackson is back on the stump for the Democrats -- and for himself. -- Nancy Reagan returns some designer dresses. -- Should the U. S. double the cigarette tax? A campaign Essay on health care...
...what about issues that happen to fall outside traditional partisan ! agendas? Politicians don't act; they react. So it's not surprising that there should be a lag between a problem's first appearance in fact and in someone's stump speech. New issues have indeed been able to make their way into the campaign. Neither drugs nor the environment was a deciding factor in any recent presidential race. But after a year of national concern about crack wars, followed by a summer of worry over the greenhouse effect and kindred ecological disasters, Manuel Noriega has become the favorite foreign...
...Read my lips!" cries Bush. "No . . . new . . . taxes!" Read my lips. George Bush is ever at odds with language, as if he does not regard it as a reliable vehicle of thought. At his worst moments on the stump, his surreal moments, Bush is a sort of amateur terrorist of language, like an eleven-year- old Shi'ite picking up a Kalashnikov assault rifle for the first time and firing off words in wild bursts, blowing out the lamps, sending the relatives diving through the windows. Bush is mostly oblivious to the nuances of language, as if some moral...
...clock staff meeting the morning after the debate, Quayle sat in his hotel suite as his advisers gently informed him that the public thought he had lost. He played it cool: "So, what else is going on?" he replied. They then sent him out on the stump to provide the answer he should have given in the first place. "There is no question," he said in Joplin, Mo., "that I would maintain and build on the excellent policies of George Bush." On the plane he told reporters, "I hadn't had that question before. Obviously you think...