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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Willie Horton

Willie Horton stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

McCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks

They're trying to turn Obama into Willie Horton, Dowd writes

Oct 8, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Before Karl Rove, Maureen Dowd reminds us, it was Lee Atwater who masterminded the Republican smear campaign, and his demolition of Michael Dukakis was his greatest, dirtiest success. Atwater painted the 1988 candidate as a weak Harvard-educated elitist with a weird last name, a man who supported "the Scary... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • smear campaign • Maureen Dowd • Michael Dukakis • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Willie Horton • Lee Atwater

McCain Plays Horton-Like Race Card: Dukakis

Dem compares new ads to Bush spots that helped sink his 1988 bid

Sep 23, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Dukakis says John McCain is using the same race-based tactics that sunk the Massachusetts Democrat’s 1988 presidential campaign, PolitickerMA reports. Dukakis cites an ad that criticizes Barack Obama’s supposed economic advisor, disgraced Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, who’s also black. Dukakis called the spot “essentially”... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • George HW Bush • Michael Dukakis • campaign advertising • Election 2008 • Willie Horton • Franklin D. Raines • Election 1988

Willie Horton Mastermind Takes Aim at Obama

Notorious right-wing ad man will portray Democrat as soft on crime, terror

Apr 22, 08 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The right-wing activist who derailed Michael Dukakis' presidential bid with the infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad has set his sights on Barack Obama. Floyd Brown’s first anti-Obama spot highlights the senator’s opposition to expanding death penalty use against gang criminals—in a year when inner-city violence raged in... More »

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death penalty • Barack Obama • terrorism • crime • negative campaigning • Willie Horton • Floyd Brown

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