In the Donnie Darko Book, Richard Kelly talks about the dinner scene where the family is discussing politics. The parents are clearly Republicans but when the argument escalates and Donnie and his sister starts cussing at each other, the dad has no real problem with it and even finds it funny, even with their 9 y.o. daughter at the table.
The reason for that, according to Kelly, is that they have raised a liberal household and thus allowing their kids to be liberal with their politics.
Dukakis in this context is just a figure of their own household politics.
Kelly was raised in a conservative household and since most of Hollywood is liberal he did not want to "take sides" or push an ideology through his film.
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