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Willie Horton Ad:
In 1988, an attack ad ran during George H.W. Bush's campaign portraying his opponent Michael Dukakis as soft on crime. The ad, created by a conservative organization not affiliated with the Bush campaign, told the story of a black convict, Willie Horton, who raped a white woman and stabbed her fiance after being furloughed from prison in Dukakis's home state of Massachusetts. Media critics charged that the ad stirred up racial fears. |