University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 1, 1988
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Dukakis smells victory Democratic candidate seeks women's support
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis made a populist pitch for the support of women and young voters yesterday and said that his boisterous reception smelled like victory in the Nov. 8 election.
He won cheers from an audience at San Jose State College for his stands on abortion, the environment and economic opportunity. He also drew loud, supporting cheers that he said were "insignificant" and his running mate, Dan Quayle, on the same issues.
But unlike his campaign speeches elsewhere in California on Sunday, when he defiantly proclaimed himself a liberal, Dukakis did not mention the "L word" that Bush was repeatedly to taunt him during the fall inauguration.
Instead, he invoked the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy as presidents who provided "a caring government and caring political leadership." Dukakis said, "That's the kind of president I want to be."
"It's Halloween today, isn't it?" the Democratic nominee reminded his nosey campus audience in this environmentally sensitive state with its bigger-than-any prize of 47 electoral votes.
"Mr. Bush is going to be passing himself as an environmentalist. No treat for us. That's the biggest trick in the book," Dukakis said.
He went on the counterattack against Bush's criticism of pollution in Boston Harbor.
He reinforced his opposition to oil drilling off the California coast and said the Reagan-Bush administration had "the worst environmental record in the history of this country."
of pollution in Boston Harbor." I'm not the guy who polluted Boston Harbor," Dukakis said. "I'm the guy who's cleaning it up, no thanks to Mr. Bush and his friends."
Making his first major appeal to women voters, a traditional source of Democratic strength, Dukakis said the Republican ticket had "been on the wrong side of every issue of special importance to American women."2
He shook his head when he said Quayle had told a 12-year-old girl last week that if she were raped by her father and became pregnant, "the government had a right to force her to bear that child."
Bush leads in recent polls
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Michael Dukakis' counterattacks have improved his rating as a crimefighter, but the Democratic presidential nominee still suffers from unsteady support within his own party, polls said yesterday.
Republican George Bush led by 11 points among likely voters in a national survey by the Gallup Organization for the Times Mirror Corp., 52 percent to 41 percent, and by seven points, 52 percent to 45 percent, in a poll by Louis Harris and Associates.
The Times Mirror poll was done in the first half of last week; the Harris poll was more recent, conducted Friday through Sunday. Its 52-48 ratio is a very slight marring from 58-44 in a Harris poll conducted Oct. 14-17.
Dukakis only recently began to counter Bush's charges that he was weak on crime, and the Harris poll indicated some results: Fifty-three percent rated Dukakis on crime, 60 percent down from 63 percent in the earlier poll.
Harris also indicated that Dukakis had scored slightly by portraying Bush's campaign advertisements as unfair. Seventy-five percent called Bush's ads too negative, while 68 percent said the same of Dukakis' ads.
The Times Mirror poll, meanwhile, found support for Dakukas uneven within his own party, while Bush marshalled monolithic backing from Republicans and siphoned away some Democrats.
Gallup said the presidential race
Presidential endorsements
Here are some of the metropolitan newspapers that have
Here are some of the metropolitan newspapers that have endorsed a presidential candidate.
Bush-Quayle
- Boston Herald
* Chicago Tribune
* Chicago Sun-Times
* Dallas Morning News
* Detroit News
* Houston Chronicle
* Houston Post
* Miami Herald
* New York Post
* Sunday Oregonian (Portland)
* Topeka Capital-Journal
SOURCES: Associated Press, Washington Times
Dukakis-Bentsen
has been largely stable for months, with Bush ahead at least since September. But its poll found an underlying factor in his favor: His
*Atlanta Constitution*
*Boston Globe*
*Detroit Free-Press*
*Milwaukee Journal*
*Minneapolis Star Tribune*
*New York Newsday*
*New York Times*
*Philadelphia Inquirer*
*St. Louis Post-Dispatch*
*St. Petersburg Times*
*Wichita Eagle-Beacon*
*Kansas City Times*
supporters were more loyal than they had been previously.
Knights-Ride Tribune News/JUDY TREIBI
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Dukakis, meanwhile, has suffered slow erosion in his popularity.
Henry Jinishian, Winter Park,
Fla. resident, and his daughter
Roxanne Anenndesn, Branson,
Mo., resident, await the arrival of
Vice President George Bush.
About 7,000 people attended
the rally yesterday.
BUSH
candidate by revving up the crowd with their songs.
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But not everyone at the convention was cheering. A group of about 20 people wearing black T-shirts with stark white letters reading "release our POWs" were there to oppose Bush. They are members of a Kansas City and national organization called Tu-
Showing his support for Vice President George Bush, Kansas City Royals first baseman George Brett was on hand to introduce the candidate. Bush, with his granddaughter Jenna, spoke at a rally Monday at Westin Crown Center in downtown Kansas City.
Rinh 52 Rescue.
Elzene Gourley of Kansas City, Mo, somberly held a large black and white photo of her brother, Lee Gourley, who she said has been a prisoner of war in Thailand since Aug. 9, 1969.
"Its ironic that Bush is part of an administration that said it would do all it could to bring back the POWs," Gourley said. "Bush was
nead of the CIA then (when her brother was taken prisoner). He had all the information available to him and he didn't do anything."
Bush briefly addressed the POW group during his speech, saying that POWs and people listed missing in action are always a top priority. ■ Kansas reporter Grace Hobson contributed information to this story.
Preparations start for inauguration
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Far from the rough and tumble of the campaign trail, preparations are quietly under way in the nation's capital for the transfer of power from President Reagan to his successor.
President Reagan sent a message on Capitol Hill, carpenters already are hammering nails into the inauguration platform where the next president will take the oath of office at noon on Jan. 20.
dent will take the bath or once it has been cleaned. Across town in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, Commerce Department employees are moving out of their offices in a government-leased building, leaving room for the transition team of either Republican George Bush or Democrat Michael Duakis.
into the transition headquarter. For the next 72 days, they will screen applicants for thousands of jobs, from Cabinet secretaries on down, and begin charting policy for the next president. In 1980
DENIRECT INTERSECT ON the morning of Nov. 9, the day after the election, the vanguard of a Bush or Dukakis administration will move into the transition headquarters.
To pay for the transition, Congress has approved up to $3.5 million.
about 1,500 people wound up on Reagan's transition
sound many of them $1-a-year volunteers.
$5.3 billion.
If Dukakis wins, he'll get the full $3.5 million. If Bush wins, the sum will be reduced by $250,000. The law specifies a lesser amount if the incoming president is the outgoing vice president. Congress reasoned that a vice president only has to move down the hall.
Regardless of who wins, the transition headquarters will be ready for immediate occupancy. By Election Day, telephones will be installed, copying machines will be plugged in and furniture will be in place.
Stationery already had been ordered with a politically neutral heading of "Office of the President-elect."
Along with the government offices, the building at 1825 Connecticut N.W. houses a drug store, Chinese restaurant and Pakistani bank. Across the street is a bath house that once was a massage parlor.
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