A key element of George H. W. Bush’s victory in the 1988 presidential race was his television ad that depicted __________
A) Willie Horton, a black convicted murderer from Massachusetts
B) Jesse Jackson as Dukakis’s foreign policy advisor
C) Alice Walker and other black feminists as allies of the Dukakis campaign
D) gangsta rappers as a crucial Dukakis constituency
Answer: A
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