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...however, agreed with Dukakis??s fiscal policies...
...although Dukakis lost the election to George H.W. Bush by a large margin—he garnered 111 electoral votes to Bush’s 426—among the most memorable aspects of 1988 election was Dukakis??s reaction to the “Willie Horton” scandal...
According to Susan R. Estrich, Dukakis??s campaign manager in 1988, the Willie Horton scandal then became a “surrogate for the question of values” in the election, an instrument for determining whether one was “on the side of the criminal or the victim of the crime...
...incident became an opportunity for the Bush campaign—which called him a “Massachusetts liberal” who was far too extreme for the White House—to attack Dukakis??s values...
...Estrich’s view, an “honorable guy” is not necessarily a winning politician: Dukakis??s refusal to retaliate against the Bush campaign was not his most advantageous decision...