Wednesday, March 14, 2012

`Duke Express' roars off on Truman-style jaunt

BISMARCK, Mo. With the Republican National Convention out of thespotlight, Democratic presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis resumedhis campaigning Friday with a whistle-stop tour meant to invoke thememory of Harry S Truman.

"We're going to make America No. 1," Dukakis said at one point,as he stood on a platform fortified by bales of hay.

The Massachusetts governor pointedly avoided the controversysurrounding Republican vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle.

Dukakis' campaign team appears to have made a calculatedjudgment that the issue centering on the Vietnam era National Guardservice of the senator from Indiana was so damaging it could be …

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