Virginia Virtucon (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
... / Palin in this election to have the largest margin of victory of any candidate since Bush 41 beat Mike Dukakis 55-45 twenty years ago. UPDATE: The new USA Today / Gallup Poll (which is separate from the Gallup daily tracking poll mentioned above) has McCain / Palin up 50-46 among registered voters and 54-44 among likely voters.
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
In October of 1988 I met a cute redhead at a party in Hell’s Kitchen. She was prim and proper and looked for all the world like the perfect Republican… except for the big “Mike Dukakis” button on her lapel. It was this irresistible contrast the sparked me to strike up a conversation, and it was that conversation that ultimately led to this: Tonight at the Invesco Field I had the opportunity...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Kathy Shaidle writes, "I'm not a big Sean Hannity fan but... ":He is spanking stupid old Mike Dukakis right now. Dukakis came on acting like a tough guy -- I must say, it's the first time I've ever seen somebody...
Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Charley wrote up our interview with former Gov. Mike Dukakis yesterday. Here is the video from that interview (in two parts). It's well worth watching -- Dukakis remains a compelling figure on the issues he cares about. Part 1: Part 2:
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
As excellent as Bill Clinton and Joe Biden were last night at the Democratic convention, I have to reserve my greatest praise for two of the people who are responsible for more than a few of the gray hairs I've accumulated since 1988 -- John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. While the talking heads on most networks nattered on, over-analyzing every syllable uttered by anyone having anything to do with...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
If you watched the last 48 hours of cable news, you would have thought that John McCain has one last desperation play: arguing that Barack Obama is an exotic foreigner who pals around with terrorists. McCain was going to give him the old Mike Dukakis treatment. But it was striking that McCain did so little to question Obama’s character or echo Sarah Palin’s cultural populist case. So,...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
This is a much better campaign than I ran in 1988, and I’m impressed. That's maraudin' Mike Dukakis, interviewed by the New York Observer . Dukakis is sort of a folk hero of Democratic loserdom: Around America, liberal parents sometimes hold flashlights under their chins and tell their children the sca-a-a-ry story of how a charismaless goofball blew a 17-point polling lead and...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... has placed its fate squarely in the hands of murderers,” said an irate Shahar. Here’s a clip of Mike-Dukakis-in-the-tank firing off a few rounds. I can make all the Oliver Hardy, Chris Farley jokes I want, but the truth is not funny at all: “This is a man who tried to carry out a terror attack against Israel at the age of 14, and was arrested by the Jordanians. It must be understood...
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... John Kerry, decked out in camouflage, and looking as uncomfortable with a dead duck as Mike Dukakis in a tank helmet. We don’t like snooty elitists, and don’t give them a break when they clumsily try at election time in the eleventh hour to morph into one of the people. Then it gets even better: A state of mind So what is elitism? And who is an elitist? We can start by remembering...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
... Willie Horton ad that shaped the 1988 presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Democrat Mike Dukakis, those in the film say Atwater recognized its power to swing the election toward Bush and encouraged it.Fear and resentment were Atwater trademarks, say those in the film.In 1978, Max Heller was the popular, well-respected, two-term mayor of Greenville, S.C., who, by almost...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
But debates aren't likely to, either. In 1960, the decisive factor in John Kennedy's election was a surge in the Catholic vote, not his debate with Richard Nixon. In 1976, Gerald Ford muffed a debate question on Poland, but he probably would have lost to Jimmy Carter anyway. Mike Dukakis in 1988 and George H.W. Bush in 1992 had poor debates, but that wasn't why they lost. Al Gore's sighs...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Atwater, who died at age 40 of brain cancer, is most famous for an allegedly "racist" ad that illustrated 1988 presidential candidate Mike Dukakis' unfortunate habit of letting killers out of prison on furlough. The ad featured a revolving door motif cast with an almost entirely white group of inmates. In an unintentionally hilarious moment that's like a parody of "JFK," the revolving...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Jake Tapper (the anti-Charlie Gibson at ABC) explores "The Isotoner campaign": Like any number of Democratic candidates before him -- Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is once again declaring that he is going to...
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Barack Obama’s latest ATTACK television ad: “Still” Jake Tapper ridicules the Barack Obama campaign for “taking off the goves” to attack and fight back against McCain-Palin. Like any number of Democratic candidates before him — Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is once again declaring that he is going to take off [...]
THE CITIZENS JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
LOL. This from the Politico , " Like any number of Democratic candidates before him -- Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is once again declaring that he is going to take off the gloves and fight back against attacks from the Republican party.This is what you're going to hear from his campaign today, anyway, which is unveiling two new TV ads, including...
