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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was virtually catatonic as he gazed at the TV screen, learning for the first time the results of exit polls that accurately predicted his Likud party's drubbing in national elections last week. The rival Labor Party took 44 of the 120 Knesset seats (vs. 39 in the previous parliament), Likud a pitiful 32 (vs. 40) -- its worst performance since the party's first outing, in 1973. The poor showing prompted Shamir to announce he would retire from politics soon, setting the stage for a fierce battle for the Likud leadership. One contender, Defense Minister Moshe...
...much that doesn't exit, thanks to a crew of soft-headed Brattle Street elitists who think they know what's best for everyone else. Opponents charge that fast food would destroy the "historic nature" of the Square, creating masses of litter and generally bringing on the end of the world as we know...
Such nuances are familiar to pollsters and political reporters but meaningless to the public. Also opaque are differences between types of surveys. Perot got a large boost earlier this month when, in the final round of primaries, the networks included his name in exit polls -- interviews with those who have just cast ballots. Such samplings usually provide reliable demographic data and allow speedy projection of the winners. But those who come out for primary elections are not representative of the larger electorate...
...opinion, to mix questions about what people have just done in voting booths and what they would do in a different election. And Perot, who had not run in the primaries, had been spared the criticism and intense scrutiny inflicted on the active candidates. His strong showing in the exit polls so dominated news coverage that he won a publicity victory in contests he had not entered...
Perot, the world's most announced "unannounced" candidate, won the exit polling hands down. Democratic voters indicated that if he had been on the ^ ballot, Perot would have won 43% to Clinton's 29% and Brown's 23%. With even more anti-Establishment enthusiasm, Republicans gave Perot 52% to President Bush's 38% and Pat Buchanan's 9%. Reaching out to Perot supporters, Clinton in Los Angeles almost plaintively declared, "Listen, if you want an outsider, if you want someone who's passed a program, taken on interest groups, got a plan for the future, that's my campaign. Give...