CNN (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic nominee for president and former Massachusetts governor, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday night, joining substitute host John King to talk about what the Democrats need to do to win the presidency in November. Some highlights:
CNN (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic nominee for president and former Massachusetts governor, appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday night, joining substitute host John King to talk about what the Democrats need to do to win the presidency in November. Some highlights:
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
One of the comparisons-of-the-week now making the rounds via pundits, Clinton supporters, Republicans, bloggers and talking (and screaming) radio and TV heads is that Democratic Senator Barack Obama could prove to be another Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor defeated by the first George Bush in his Presidential race. A fair comparison or not? Dukakis’ former campaign...
The Strata-Sphere (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
I had not really seen any connection between Sen Obama’s campaign and the disastrous campaign of Governor Michael Dukakis against George Bush Sr in 1988. But that was up until I read Susan Estrich try and make the case Obama is not another Dukakis. Tried and failed, that is. By the time [...]
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
In the latest media whinge about GTA IV, syndicated columnist Susan Estrich (left), who ran Michael Dukakis’ ill-fated 1988 presidential campaign, criticizes some of the game’s non-interactive plot elements: From what I’ve heard about the ending… In one version, so I’m told, your cousin and his bride die in a drive-by shooting at their wedding. In another, your [...]
Pajamas Media (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Democrats are hoping that 2008 will be another 1992, producing a new, young, charismatic president. But the GOP will do its best to replay 1988 instead.
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
It's admittedly a stretch, but there is a glass-half-full way to see the racial divide in the Tuesday's West Virginia primary. When Rev. Jesse Jackson ran his campaign for president in 1988, he got 14 percent of the vote against eventual nominee Michael Dukakis. Not only did Illinois Sen. Barack Obama get almost double the percentage of the vote that Jackson got 20 years earlier, in terms...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush scored easy political points against Democrat Michael Dukakis by writing him off as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU."During Strossen's tenure, the group's formal membership and national staff grew substantially. The organization worked to expand in the country's midsection, where its presence and support had traditionally been...
Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
... presidents and presidential hopefuls. He was reportedly a member of the team that tarred Michael Dukakis with the “Willie Horton” ads in 1988, and later he helped organize the first press conference with Paula Jones, who had sued Clinton for sexual harassment. In 2004, his company did public relations work for a move attacking John Kerry for undermining the treatment of Vietnam Veterans,...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Try as they might, they couldn't work themselves into much ecstasy over Walter Mondale in 1984 or Michael Dukakis in 1988, though they had little flings with bit-part players Gary Hart and (I kid you not) Bruce Babbitt, a genial former Governor of Arizona. But by the 1990s a new Democrat, or rather a New Democrat, was come among us, a man the media told us would lift our eyes from...
In The Pink Texas (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... meanwhile, has already been a VP candidate. And let's just say…he didn't exactly help. Luckily, Michael Dukakis was on Larry King to put it all in perspective. What a great idea! Let's bring out Mr. “I Tanked the Democratic Party” for some insightful commentary on the future of the Democratic party! My night was further ruined by the hijacking of the major networks by area meteorologists...
The Liberal OC (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Marty Wischol had an item in today's paper about an 8-person meeting with Floyd Brown last week in Irvine; Brown is responsible for the negative ads about Willie Horton that painted 1988 Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis as soft on crime when statistics told quite the opposite story. And my state assemblyman Chuck DeVore was there to defend [...]
redstatesusa (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... local hayseed Democrat to national liberals like John Kerry. The technique goes back at least to Michael Dukakis in 1988. It is beyond outrageous for liberals to complain about the practice of linking Democrats to the national party when their calculated strategy in race after race in the red states has been to run Democratic candidates who appear to be Americans. They're not Americans....
baldilocks (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Columnist Susan Estrich who worked for the spectacularly abortive 1988 presidential campaign of Governor Michael Dukakis (D-MA) rhetorically asks whether Barack Obama could be another Dukakis, then answers ‘no.’ [T]he most important difference between Obama and Dukakis has absolutely nothing...
Cobbloviate (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... a question. What do Adlai Stevenson (1952,1956), Hubert Humphrey (1968), Jimmy Carter (1980), and Michael Dukakis (1988) have in common other than losing their respective presidential bids? If you guessed “winning West Virginia,” then not only are you correct, but I like the way you think. When I noticed that 48 percent of those polled after the West Va. balloting said that they would...
