How much would Dukakis have won by if not for the media's bias?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I've agonized about this since the day of the 1988 election.

I don't feel like making a map, but I think he would have won by even more than Clinton did. He did have an 18-point lead during the summer, before the Repub Noise Machine kicked in.

Strange how the media seldom reported the fact that the furlough program was begun by a Republican, and Dukakis was the one who abolished it. These facts run completely contrary to the "official" version of things that was spread around so effectively.

I think if the media had played fair, he would have won Kentucky and Ohio surely, plus most other states that Clinton won in '92, and quite possibly even a state like South Dakota. Locally, though, I don't think he would have won my home county (Campbell, KY). (Campbell County was kind of like Bushbot Central back then.)

Dukakis. A decent guy.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The fact that he told Bernard Shaw that he wouldn't retaliate if a thug raped his own wife pretty much sealed his fate.

He never said this!

[Bandit3 the Worker]

What sense does it make to have an UNSUPERVISED furlough program for prisoners who are supposed to be serving life sentences?  If that isn't hare-brained, I don't know what is.

To repeat, it was Dukakis who got rid of the furlough program.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Granted, Dukakis looked about as bad as anyone possibly could have in his response to the question, but I still maintain that it was extremely unfair.

It was such an incredibly idiotic question that I could hardly even pay any attention to what his answer was.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Because it's bandit logic.

At least it's not TOMMY THOMPSON logic.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Can someone explain to me what the whole deal about Dukakis in a tank was about.  I've seen the pictures.  What's the big deal?

The big deal is that the media decided to make political hay out of it.