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Those who say that polls influence the electorate rather than simply mirror its attitudes cite three main trends; the bandwagon effect, the underdog effect and the media effect...
...festivities, the contents of which were not off the record. "The United States," he wrote, "has no more urgent goal than achieving and preserving world peace and security. Let us seek ways to cooperate in reducing international tensions and creating a safer world." The State Department got on the bandwagon by adding that "Soviet expansionism" had raised "the honest question of whether the Soviet Union was as committed to peace...
...Send missiles to the Syrians, arms to Nicaragua through the American flotilla offshore, and--for hard cash--sell Muammar Qaddafi whatever he wants. Train a few hundred guerrillas to blow up oil tanks and airline offices in South Africa. Whenever an anti-American issue comes along, jump on the bandwagon. In the Falklands, trumpet principled support for the just anti-colonial cause of the Argentinean and Latin American peoples against the British accomplices of U.S. imperialism. Never mind that the Argentine junta were recently "fascists" bent on disappearing every communist and leftist they could catch...
Kinnock replaced Michael Foot, 70, who had tendered his resignation after presiding over Labor's worst defeat in 65 years, when Britons in June re-elected the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Kinnock's bandwagon rolled over three party heavyweights: the center-right's Roy Hattersley, 50, Leftist Veteran Eric Heffer, 61, and Peter Shore, 59, a moderate spokesman on economic affairs. The battle for the deputy leader's post proved much sharper. With Kinnock's tacit support, Hattersley defeated Leftist Michael Meacher, 43, thereby establishing what party faithful called "the dream ticket...
...frantic telephone deals: the price of the U.S. dollar was surging to record levels. The dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine-year high. "The dollar's bandwagon was rolling at such a speed that it seemed that nothing could stop it," said Julian Snyder, editor of a newsletter that follows international money markets...