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still dominated both candidates' spots (81 percent for Bush and 84 percent for Dukakis). In 1988, Bush and Dukakis used fear appeals almost equally (30 percent and 32 percent respectively). Voters were...

TABLE 2.1SOURCE OF SUPPORT, BUSH AND DUKAKIS, 1988 Bush supportersDukakis supporters50-55%56%+50-55%56%+PartyRepublicans☒Democrats☒Independents☒Sex and marital statusMarried men☒Married women☒Unmarried...

...Republicans to run against Governor Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidentialelection. This image was overcome...the initial 17-point lead inpopularity Dukakis had over Bush in the summer of 1988. Bush eventually gained53 percent of the...

THE 1988 ELECTIONGeorge Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in the November 8, 1988, electionin a popular vote (54%-46%U...mandate. Newsweek reportedthat "the outcome gave Bush no sweeping mandate." Bush's "low-roadcampaign...

...Reagan's and, then, Pres­ident Bush's tax and budget proposals. In 1988 he ran as Michael Stan­ley Dukakis's running mate against George Bush and Danforth (Dan)James...alongwell with both Presidents Reagan and Bush. During the 1988 campaignhis stature increased, to the point where some Dukakis supporters la­mented that Bentsen...

...strong, thecount reversed: 94 about Bush and only 34 about Gore. Now that Gore...far has the two much closer: 78 for Bush,67 for Gore.Still, there's no...candidate's electoral success.In 1988, Bush-Quayle got 96 jokes to Dukakis-Bentsen's 80. In 1992,Bush's...

TRADE POLICY MAKING DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONMany argue that trade was...campaign, particularly after the August 1988 passage of theOmnibus Trade and Competitiveness...candidates, Democraticcandidate Michael Dukakis leaned more toward trade protectionism, whileGeorge Bush adopted the more liberal, open posture...passsome form of what eventually became the 1988 Omnibus Trade and Com­petitiveness...

...provides the classic case study.1 In 1988, The Almanac ofAmerican Politics described...Con­gress from San Francisco in 1988, had a similar set of policies. In...in the Democratic primaries. Then in 1988 the Democrats nominated aNortherner, Michael Dukakis, who had a suburban-oriented strategy...3 Dukakis lost heavily to George H. Bush, who won all the large Northernand Western...

...that hefavored Reagan's veto of the 1988 Civil Rights Act designed to overturn...the time to becomedisloyal. Still, Bush indicated that he favored civil rights...Their sus­picion flowed from the 1988 Bush campaign commercials that focused onWillie...for attacking Democratic nomineeMichael Dukakis, the governor of Massachusetts, although...

...presidential elections starting with 1988.” Bell describesReaganism as...democratic world.” While praising Bush for hisfidelity to these themes, Bell...take much the same tack.George W. Bush, they argue, is “Reagan's...by a comfortableeight points. Michael Dukakis would have done George H.W. Bush nodamage, and probably some good, if...