No Tank Pictures, Please!Comparing the 1988 and 2008 Campaigns

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No Tank Pictures, Please!Comparing the 1988 and 2008 Campaigns
      

Most recent polls give Senator Barack Obama only a modest lead over Senator John McCain.  Should Democrats worry about his margin?

Consider the last time a Democrat faced a nonincumbent candidate under a Republican president.   From May to July 1988, Governor Michael Dukakis ran ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush.  Dukakis's lead ranged from three to seventeen points.  


         

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