Word: callegari
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polls affect things rather dramatically," says Dan Callegari, Sen. Gary W. Hart's (D-Col.) Manchester, N.H. campaign coordinator. "If you're not showing strength in the polls, then you have to sell your candidate twice as hard. Mondale's campaign theme is that he is doing best in the polls...
...only thing the press covers is polls," Callegari asserts. "If you're not a frontrunner then the polls don't mean anything. When they show some upward movement that's when things start ticking and you receive some cover age. The media is not that ambitious to cover...those who aren't high in the polls," he adds...
Members of the media and many other observers claim that polls don't have the virtually limitless influence Callegari suggests. Barone points out that The Washington Post has run editorials and articles about Reubin O. Askew, who has fared poorly in the polls...
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