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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 ...
During the campaign, Dukakis was the target of several now-infamous attack ads by individuals supporting the Bush campaign, most infamously the "Willie Horton" ad produced by the pro-Bush National Security Political Action Committee. Although the Bush campaign disavowed the ad, [26] it still played a major role in Dukakis' defeat. [27]
Gary Warren Hart (né Hartpence; born November 28, 1936) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.He was the front-runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination until he dropped out amid revelations of extramarital affairs.
It depends on when Democrats tell their left flank to shut up and sit down. ... who took the reins at the DNC after Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis got blown out by then Vice President George ...
Dukakis’s opponent, George H.W. Bush, innovated new types of negative campaigning that smeared Dukakis and seemed to shock or overwhelm him. Bush won 40 of 50 states and walloped Dukakis in the ...
From February 8 to June 14, 1988, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1988 United States presidential election. Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1988 Democratic National Convention held from July 18 to July 21, 1988, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mike Kolen, linebacker: Kolen, ... He started all 14 games at left guard and was a big ... 1989, two days after his 44th birthday, he suffered a heart attack at his home in Miami and died at Coral ...
King attacked Dukakis for not keeping his promises, specifically his pledge not to raise taxes. A fiscal and social conservative, King was anti-abortion and supported capital punishment, offshore drilling, increased nuclear power, greater research on solar energy, less business regulation, raising the drinking age to 21, and mandatory sentences ...