Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Political Science Faculty Publications Political Science Department 6-1991 Cultural Issues and Images in the 1988 Presidential Campaign - Why the Democrats Lost Again Joel A. Lieske Cleveland State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clpolsci_facpub How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Publisher's Statement Copyright 1991 Cambridge University Press. Available on publisher's site at http://www.jstor.org/stable/419927. Original Citation Lieske, Joel. 1991. "Cultural Issues and Images in the 1988 Presidential Campaign - Why the Democrats Lost Again." PS: Political Science and Politics 24:180-187. Repository Citation Lieske, Joel A., "Cultural Issues and Images in the 1988 Presidential Campaign - Why the Democrats Lost Again" (1991). Political Science Faculty Publications. 7. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clpolsci_facpub/7 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Political Science Department at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Political Science Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Cultural Issues and Images in the 1988 Presidential Campaign: Why the Democrats Lost-Again! Joel Lieske, Cleveland State University The culturalissues and Dukakisnot our ignorance. Thus we are enter- ity. It is my contention that Bush respondingto themput a wall up between tained and even amused the Dukakisand votershe couldhave gotten. by won in 1988 because he was more The wall got so thickthat peopleforgot tongue-in-cheek interpretations of successful in appealing to the cultural aboutthe economicissues.