Kirsch was always politically active and after graduation she worked on Michael Dukakis' doomed presidential campaign.
Obama made the most unabashedly left-wing campaign of a presidential candidate since maybe Michael Dukakis.
Some conservatives persist in seeing him as a cross between Michael Dukakis and George McGovern.
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In 1988 he watched in pain as Michael Dukakis was battered without mercy by George Bush.
Despite the contrast in their running mates, Bush still beat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 election.
He eventually entered politics in 1982 as lieutenant governor under Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
She had previously worked as office manager for Geraldine Ferraro's vice presidential campaign and Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign.
Mr Neustadt, who also advised Michael Dukakis, was often unlucky in those who heard his words of wisdom.
Michael Dukakis, as a solidly liberal Democratic governor, fought tooth and nail against such bills throughout the 1980s.
He eventually entered politics in 1982 as lieutenant governor under Gov. Michael Dukakis.
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The trend was set by centrist William Weld after he succeeded Michael Dukakis in 1990 and extended by Paul Cellucci.
George Bush senior squashed Michael Dukakis by accusing him of caring more about criminals and freeloaders than about hard-working families.
The first Bush beat the somewhat robotic and unsympathetic Michael Dukakis but he then lost to the younger, more telegenic Clinton.
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Many of Mr Gore's most prominent functionaries, including Donna Brazile, his campaign manager, cut their political teeth working for Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Mr Gore won the Philadelphia suburb of Montgomery County by 30, 000 votes, a district Michael Dukakis had lost by more than 60, 000 in 1988.
W. Bush but in 1988 his campaign team savaged then-Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis to the point of making a very good man a national laughingstock.
In 1988, Michael Dukakis gave a dispassionate response when asked whether he would favor the death penalty for someone who raped and murdered his wife.
Former Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis is blunter.
George Bush senior mocked Michael Dukakis for his Harvard Yard liberalism.
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Mr Kerry cannot win the presidency as a second edition of Michael Dukakis, the famously liberal Massachusetts governor who was trounced by George Bush senior in 1988.
In this regard, Romney seems a lot less like Newt Gingrich or even George W. Bush and a lot more like another former Massachusetts governor, Michael Dukakis.
"There's no question that you have to be in good shape physically to run for the presidency, " agrees Michael Dukakis, who ran against George Bush Snr in 1988.
During his AP tenure, King broke several major political stories, including Michael Dukakis' selection of Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate in 1988 and Clinton's selection of Al Gore in 1992.
W. Bush, Michael Dukakis, Joe Biden and particularly Bob Dole.
Rival Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis distributed a videotape that showed that Biden lifted parts of his speeches from remarks made by Neil Kinnock, then leader of Britain's Labor Party.
Just look at 1988 Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis or any number of other candidates who left their nominating conventions with a lead: So much can happen between now and November.
Michael Dukakis, a former governor, tried to fix health care 20 years ago, but the law he pushed through the legislature eventually came undone in the teeth of business opposition.
Step back to 1988, when Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis walked out of the July Democratic convention with his party's nomination and a 20-point lead in the polls over George H.
The likes of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, on the left, and Barry Goldwater, on the right, may have won brownie points from their supporters for sticking to their principles.
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