Right!
 
The willie horton ad is the informal american for the advertisement by Bush
in the Dukakis campaign which showed that Willie Horton had been released
from the Massachussetts prision and then went on to hold another family
prisoner.
 
In the superheated, racially charged world of American politics, this was
a severe attack on Dukakis, since Bush could tar (pun intended) him with
being soft on crime/blacks in whatever combination individual Americans
chose to take.
 
I don't watch commercial TV, so I never saw it.  Other will have to give
you more grisly details.
 
Lee Atwater, the then Republican Party chairman was widely given credit
for initiating this form of public savagery.  It was surprising to me,
how much, when he was dying of brain? cancer, his noticers had to mention
that he had made some form of amends for this undeserved viciousness.
 
Well, Bush will do whatever he has to to win, right? (cite Eliz Drew in
latest New Yorker).
 
 
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