Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fallibility of preprimary polls leads some to dismiss their utility altogether. Says Lucien Haas, an aide to Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The polls are absolutely worthless." That is an exaggeration. The real problem is that since polling can assess the views of a body of voters but not which of those voters will actually vote, a preprimary sampling is only an approximation of what is likely to happen. Any politician or pundit who attributes to such a poll more accuracy or importance than it can realistically have does so at his own risk...
Experienced campaigners now seem to have the upper hand over press questioners. If it's any consolation, no candidate, however tempted, has so far dared to dismiss importuning reporters in the way Muhammad Ali does: "I ain't gonna answer that because if I did, you'd be just as smart...
...would be too easy to dismiss the rally as sixties nostalgia. As Stokeley Carmichael, a period piece himself, points out, the current anti-registration drive is huger, more politicized probably more effective, than the anti-war movement in its first three or four years. People are already mobilized, Carmichael said. In the 80's, we must be organized as well. Mobilizing is to seek influence, organizing is to seal power...
...looked forward with relish to the possibility of Reagan as their target. No longer. Says one Georgian: "People like what Reagan's saying about the economy, about foreign policy. He's offering simple solutions and that's what people want." Adds another White House aide: "To dismiss Ronald Reagan as a right-wing nut would be a very serious error-for us or anybody else...
...later: "He chooses to suppress--the sin of omission. He does not lie to us." The authors dismiss the other interpretation--that Carter is just another hack politician in the Bilboesque tradition--in a series of short clauses and brief references...