Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another consideration for students would be a lack of funds. Most students can't afford taxi fare to the airport, let alone a plane ticket. You could always get your parents to pay for a trip home, but who wants to be subjected to a week-long barrage of "What are you doing with your life? Why don't you get a haircut?" sermons from relatives...
...many Republicans, it is the dream ticket. Such a bold play could shake the Vice President's cautious and bland image, giving a boost to his campaign. The bright and engaging Liddy Dole, who has served every President since Lyndon Johnson, would put extra zip into the G.O.P. drive. The choice of a woman could also help narrow the Democratic edge among female voters, who make up more than half the electorate...
...TIME poll taken last Thursday found that 49% of registered voters say they would not vote Democratic if Jesse Jackson were on the ticket as the presidential nominee; 40% would not vote Democratic if he were on the ticket as the vice-presidential nominee. When respondents were asked why people would not vote for a Jackson ticket, 32% replied "his race," vs. 39% who cited his "lack of government experience" and 12% who pointed to his "position on the issues...
Finding someone who is a vertibrate, yet weaker than Bush, will be extremely tough for the GOP. There are plenty of intelligent, forceful, conservative and deep-voiced people out there to add non-Bush qualities to the Republican ticket, but they don't fulfill the descriptions of the jellyfish needed to make Bush look good. After all Bush just spent eight years making Reagan look good. Practice makes perfect, and George Bush has made playing the jelly-fish into an art form...
...fact that Bush has no recognizable heritage is no reason to rule out an "ethnic" candidate as the second choice on the Democratic ticket, but the pundits are already saying Dukakis the Greek is minority enough. The Democrats need a vice president who is non-ethnic and who is non-Harvard, which will be hard, considering everyone in the party fits one of those two catagories...