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Republicans arrived in New Orleans to cheery news. Latest poll (Gallup) showed Michael Dukakis coming off his Atlanta bounce. He now leads George Bush by just seven points, 49 to 42 per cent, down from 17-to 18-point spread in late July…. Political analyst Kevin Phillips had written a week earlier that if Bush trailed Dukakis by as much as eight points after New Orleans, “that’ll be a sign that he was unable to rise to his big—and critical—opportunity.”.

Other post-Atlanta samplings were bad for Bush. An NBC/WSJ poll found his unfavorable rating had climbed to 46 per cent (Dukakis’s was 18), and an Electoral College breakdown by the Field Institute gave Dukakis 278, to 128 for Bush…. On the other hand, Southern pollster Claibourne Darden Jr. says four of ten Dukakis voters are motivated by anti-Bush rath-1 er than pro-Dukakis feelings. “That ‘anti’ vote, says Darden, “can leave you in a hurry.”. Just how liberal is Dukakis? When Dan Rather asked Teddy Kennedy if there were any issues on which he and Dukakis differed, he couldn’t come up with one… Evans & Novak report Dukakis’s intransigent stand against any aid to Contras has influential Southern congressional leaders (Sens. Nunn and Gore, and Florida Rep. Dante Fascell) plenty worried. Dukakis will get organized labor’s official blessing in Washington on Aug. 24.AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland will designate Joan Baggett, political director of bricklayers union, director of labor liaison in Dukakis campaign.

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Republicans arrived in New Orleans to cheery news. Latest poll (Gallup) showed Michael Dukakis coming off his Atlanta bounce. He now leads George Bush by just seven points, 49 to 42 per cent, down from 17-to 18-point spread in late July…. Political analyst Kevin Phillips had written a week earlier that if Bush trailed Dukakis by as much as eight points after New Orleans, “that’ll be a sign that he was unable to rise to his big—and critical—opportunity.”.

Other post-Atlanta samplings were bad for Bush. An NBC/WSJ poll found his unfavorable rating had climbed to 46 per cent (Dukakis’s was 18), and an Electoral College breakdown by the Field Institute gave Dukakis 278, to 128 for Bush…. On the other hand, Southern pollster Claibourne Darden Jr. says four of ten Dukakis voters are motivated by anti-Bush rath-1 er than pro-Dukakis feelings. “That ‘anti’ vote, says Darden, “can leave you in a hurry.”. Just how liberal is Dukakis? When Dan Rather asked Teddy Kennedy if there were any issues on which he and Dukakis differed, he couldn’t come up with one… Evans & Novak report Dukakis’s intransigent stand against any aid to Contras has influential Southern congressional leaders (Sens. Nunn and Gore, and Florida Rep. Dante Fascell) plenty worried. Dukakis will get organized labor’s official blessing in Washington on Aug. 24.AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland will designate Joan Baggett, political director of bricklayers union, director of labor liaison in Dukakis campaign.