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Michael Dukakis was the 65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991.His running mate, Lloyd Bentsen, was a U.S. senator from Texas, and a member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance who had previously run for the Democratic nomination in 1976.
"In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts" – 1964 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Lyndon B. Johnson supporters, answering Goldwater's slogan "The Stakes Are Too High For You To Stay Home" - 1964 U.S. campaign slogan of Lyndon B. Johnson, as seen in The Daisy Ad [15] "LBJ for the USA" - 1964 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Lyndon B. Johnson
The Dukakis campaign produced a 60-second response ad that featured a television set playing Bush's ad, which is flicked off the screen by a finger later revealed to be Dukakis as he proclaims that he is fed up with "George Bush's negative TV ads", but this "pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey advertising" [clarification needed] only ended up drawing ...
In 1988, the year Dukakis chose to campaign in Michigan on Election Day, Republican nominee George H.W. Bush held a Monday campaign event in Southfield, one day earlier.
Dukakis was attacked for such positions as opposing mandatory recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, and being a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" (a statement Dukakis made early in the primary campaign to appeal to liberal voters). Dukakis responded by saying that he was a "proud liberal" and that the phrase should not be a bad ...
"The way you usually burst balloons is paint the the other guy as a risk."Biden has also been much more aggressive at pushing back against the Trump campaign's attacks, whereas Dukakis chose not ...
The Bush campaign's figures had been based on the assumption that the high rates of economic growth in the late 1980s would continue throughout his time in office. [9] Instead, a recession began. By 1990, rising budget deficits, fueled by a growth in mandatory spending and a declining economy, began to greatly increase the federal deficit.
Ron DeSantis is running for president on his record as Florida governor. That doesn't always work out so well, as 1988 presidential nominee Michael Dukakis learned the hard way.