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Page 4/The BattalionATuesday, September 6,1988
Bentsen blasts Bush, Quayl
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B E A U -
MONT (AP)
— Demo
cratic vice
presidential
candidate
Lloyd Bent-
sen blasted
Republicans
George
Bush and
Dan Quayle
Monday as
an uncaring
duo willing
to maintain
a legacy of
poverty for many Americans.
“In the America of George Bush
and Dan Quayle, the rich get richer
and the poor get poorer,” Bentsen
told a fiercely Democratic Labor Day
rally at a rodeo arena in this East
Texas oil city.
“And the vast majority of our peo
ple work harder and longer just to
stay even,” he said. “They need two
incomes just to keep from slipping
back.”
Bentsen began his fall campaign
in his native Texas, saying he wanted
to be more aggressive. He hopes to
help the Democratic ticket bring
home the Lone Star state’s 29 electo
ral votes, now within the reach of ei
ther party.
A poll published Monday in the
Dallas Morning News showed the
Republican ticket leading 47 percent
to 44 percent, within a 3 percentage
point margin of error.
Bentsen told reporters traveling
with him that he expected to take
Texas and win the national election,
but he acknowledged that the Demo
crats were revising their tactics. “I
think you’ll see a more aggressive
campaign,” he said.
“You can’t keep taking the kind of
attacks that we saw,” such as Bush’s
claim that Dukakis was unpatriotic
because he vetoed a bill mandating
the recitation of the Pledge of Alle
giance in the public schools of Mas
sachusetts, he said. On that issue,
Bentsen added, Republicans would
suffer a voter backlash.
The Texas senator, returning to
the trail after a brief vacation in
Wyoming, said he had spoken by
telephone with John Sasso, the Du
kakis campaign’s new vice chairman
who was returning a year after re
signing for what some considered an
unfair attack on Sen. Joseph Biden,
D-Del., a Dukakis rival at the time.
Bentsen began his Labor Day at a
small business center in Waco, an
area struggling economically.
He met with local people trying to
launch new businesses and, af
terward, told about 250 supporters
that Bush, who also claims Texas as
his home, had done little for the
state.
“They’ve sort of turned their
backs on us, this administration has,”
Bentsen said, standing in
high
shirtsleeves outside the former
school building.
The Republicans “have an oil man
who’s running for president,” he
said, “but, frankly, I can’t remember
anything he’s done for the energy
industry in the past eight years.”
At the Beaumont rally, attended
by some 2,000 people, Bentsen said
that Quayle was on the wrong side of
every energy issue important to
Texas — and still George Bush
chose him as his running mate.
Bentsen said that Quayle exempli
fied the Republican attitude with his
record opposing health care for pre
gnant women, immunizations for
children and the bill requiring 60
days advance notice for workers fac
ing plant layoffs.
“When it comes to basic issues im
portant to working men and women,
the Republicans say, ‘No,’” he said.
Bentsen said the Republicans
were trying to make ideology and
patriotism the issues of the cam
paign, but, selling Dukakis to Tex
ans, he said the real issues were jobs
and opportunity.
“The Republicans like to wrap
themselves in the flag, and dema-
dire or of th
gogue on phony issues,’ jDATA PRO
standing before a huge
flag flanked by the Texas
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Poll says Bush
leads in Texas
HOUSTON (AP) — The presi
dential race in Texas — a crucial
state for both candidates — remains
tight with Republican George Bush
gaining only a slight advantage over
Democrat Michael Dukakis, a poll
indicates.
Bush and his running mate, In
diana Sen. Dan Quayle, have the
support of 47 percent of Texas vot
ers, while Dukakis and Texas Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen have 44 percent,
according to a poll by the Houston
Chronicle and the Dallas Morning
News. The remainder were mostly
undecided.
But the poll’s statistical margin of
error is plus or minus 3 percentage
points, which could put the race in a
virtual dead heat. The poll pub
lished Monday surveyed 1,001 likely
voters between Aug. 26 and Friday.
Bush had been the heavy favorite
in Texas, which he calls home, but
Dukakis’ selection of Bentsen as his
running mate drastically narrowed
that gap, according to a July poll.
The latest poll shows the race re
mains close at the traditional Labor
Day campaign kickoff, with Bentsen
still providing a big boost to the
Democratic ticket.
But Bush appears to be scoring
well with his charges that Dukakis,
the governor of Massachusetts, is a
liberal — a tag that doomed three of
the last four Democratic presidential
nominees in Texas.
“Texas figures are to remain
highly competitive, among the top
four or five most competitive states,”
said Richard Murray, the University
of Houston political scientist who di
rected the survey.
Eight percent of the Texas voters
surveyed were undecided and less
than 0.5 percent expressed support
for Libertarian Party presidential
nominee Ron Paul of Lake Jackson.
Texas, with 29 electoral votes, is
considered critical by both cam
paigns in a race that appears very
close nationally.
Bentsen’s help for Dukakis in
Texas is substantial: 43 percent of
the respondents say they are more
likely to vote for the Democratic
ticket because of Bentsen.
In contrast, only 13 percent said
they were more likely vote for Re
publican because Qualye was on the
ticket. In addition, 82 percent said
Bentsen is qualified to serve as presi
dent, and only 32 percent said
Quayle is.
When asked to rate the candidates
philosophically, 45 percent of the
poll respondents called Dukakis lib
eral. Bush was labeled conservative
by 57 percent.
Bush has a slight majority of the
support of strict independents, but
Dukakis has the support of 62 per
cent of identified Democrats who
voted for President Reagan in 1984,
the poll shows.
Tom Cosgrove, Dukakis’ Texas
campaign coordinator, said the poll
bodes ill for Bush.
“If I were the Republicans, and I
had just had my candidate for presi
dent in the state four days straight
during perhaps his best week ever
campaigning and he was in a statisti
cal dead heat, I’d be a little scared,”
he said.
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen of Texas holds a com
manding lead in his re-election
bid despite Republican criticism
that his dual candidacy for vice
president is unfair, a poll shows.
Bentsen maintains a 30-point
lead over Republican Beau
Boulter, a two-term House mem
ber from Amarillo, according to
poll by the Houston Chronicle
and the Dallas Morning News.
The Texas senator also is Dem
ocratic presidential nominee Mi
chael Dukakis’ running mate.
“Boulter remains still effecti
vely an unknown," said Richard
Murray, the University of Hous
ton political scientist who con
ducted the survey of 1,001 likely
Texas voters from Aug. 26 to last
Friday.
Bentsen had the support of 58
percent and Boulter 28 percent,
with the remainder undecided,
according to the poll, conducted
for the two newspapers through
the university’s Public Affairs Re
search Center. The statistical
margin of error is plus or minus 3
percentage points.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — High poverty rates for
young families are getting America’s youth off to “the
worst possible start,” warns the head of a group pro
moting the interests of children.
“Our children and our young families are this na
tion’s growing edge,” Marian Wright Edelman, presi
dent of the Children’s Defense Fund, said. “We neglect
them at our peril.”
The comments came with the release of a study com
missioned by the group, which found that the economic
growth of the last few years hasn’t benefited young
American families the way it has families that are estab
lished.
“America’s young families are afflicted by an eco
nomic depression in the middle of our society’s more
general prosperity,” Edelman said in a statement.
In terms of constant dollars, the income of families
with children headed by an adult under age 30 fell by
about one-fourth between 1973 and 1986, the fund re
ported.
As a result the poverty rate for such families nearly
doubled from 12 percent in 1973 to 22 percent in 1986,
the fund said.
Census Bureau figures for 1987 were released last
week and, while not identical to the children’s fund fig
ures, tend to support the group’s assertions.
The Census Bureau found that the 1987 poverty rate
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dividuals.
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the workers, leaders, parents, taxpayers, soldieisp
hope of the 21st century,” Edelman said. “Weaitl
ting them off to the worst possible start.” DALLAS (/
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Act for Better Child Care, legislation pending it *sffas the hig
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