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 | GoinDownSlow (23)
06/25/2007 | LMFAO...Quite possibly the only duo that could have made the Carter/Mondale cartel appear respectable. Another reason this site needs a zero or less rating. One is far too high for these morons...
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
02/15/2007 | This was billed by the chattering class as being a Democratic sure-win. Then the Dems nominated Dukakis and that was it.
The Alfred E. Neuman photo-op of Mike in the tank was typical of that campaign.
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 | Victor83 (35)
02/15/2007 | This election was never winnable by Democrats- Dukakis lost by a landslide because Bush rode the coat tails of Ronald Reagan. Hindsight provides proof of this, as we now know what a weak personality and horrific campaigner Bush 41 was.
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 | abichara (60)
02/15/2007 |  Dukakis started out the campaign with a 17-point lead over George Bush, yet he managed to lose by a fairly large margin. Despite the initial fanfare his candidacy attracted, Dukakis himself simply failed to establish a connection with the American people. He gave away an election that was potentially winnable for the Democrats. It would have been tough for any Democrat to have gotten the win, given that Reagan still had enough residual popularity to ride Bush into the White House. As for Dukakis, he was the type of canidate who was intelligent, but had weak campaigning skills. Like John Kerry, Dukakis failed to aggressively defend his record. He could have also done a better job in going on the offense against Bush and the Republicans on Iran Contra and other issues. In politics, like in life, you have to be aggressive, but you can't be too abrasive either.
Even though Bush was initially seen as a weak candidate, the Democrats lost because they failed to field an widely appealing candidate, a story they have repeated many times since the late-1960's.
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 | irishgit (138)
02/06/2007 | Dukakis was another dismal campaigner, and his staff were a bunch of feel-gooder, Birkenstock wearing idjits with hubris and no substance. Run a campaign this bad, and you deserve to lose.
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 | oscargamblesfro (77)
12/14/2005 | No surprise at all, actually one of the most predictable ever. I'm not sure who voted him in as governor THREE times. Everybody has this idea of Boston as an ultraliberal haven, but that's not really quite true, almost everyone I knew growing up: largely working and middle class, economically liberal but socially conservative, usually blue collar Irish/ Italian/ Polish etc , usually Catholic, and even many Greek Orthodox Boston natives couldn't stand him. Including myself, though I will say that he's quite a bright guy. Had about as much chance of getting in as Fidel Castro would becoming the head of the John Birch Society.
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 | LanceRoxas (40)
10/21/2004 | With Bush running on the coattails of the Reagan platform the electorate reelecting a Republican wasn't very surprising.
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 | Redoedo (39)
09/06/2004 | Given Reagan's popularity and the upswing in the economy that preceded the electon, it's not surprising that Bush won comfortably. Of course, Dukakis himself wasn't a real good candidate to begin with, and ran a terrible campaign.
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 | louiethe20th (74)
09/05/2004 | Stupid Black Americans vote for the democrats every 4 years, so what is the difference!Don King for president in 2008!
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 | jgls (12)
09/05/2004 | not an upset at all. dukakis was possibly the worst presidential candidate from either party in the 20th century. he had the personality of an automoton, the spine of a jellyfish, and when he put on that stupid helmet and rode around in that tank he looked like a complete moron. the biggest surprise is that lloyd bentsen agreed to be his running mate. i am still convinced he somehow bribed or blackmailed bentsen, or that senator bentsen was temporarily insane. george bush in effect won reagan's third term, despite having that mental midget dan quayle as his running mate.
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 | EschewObfuscation (61)
09/02/2004 | What was surprising here was that Dukakis had eliminated, systematically, without looking mean or opportunistic, the other six of the 7 dwarfs (Biden, Simon, Gore, Hart, Gephart and Jackson) while Bush ('41) utilized Lee Atwater's advice to perfection. I thought this election would be much tighter.
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