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Pollsters had a say too, the researchers find. The Iowa Poll, conducted by the Des Moines Register, pitted Mondale against President Reagan in December 1982 (Mondale 52%, Reagan 41%). But look further back. The dean of all opinion samplers, George Gallup, matched Mondale against Reagan in May 1980. That was half a year before the Carter- Mondale ticket lost the White House...
...polls affect the outcome of elections, candidates faring poorly in polls have traditionally sought to discredit them. During the 1968 presidential campaign, when most polls showed Hubert H. Humphrey trailing Richard M. Nixon by a wide margin, Humphrey once called a press conference to change that the Gallup Poll the views of Blacks. More recently, Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King complained that he underperformed in polls that failed to include newly registered voters among those surveyed...
...there are a lot of people who have not been involved in the political process out there who are pro-Reagan. "Republican certainly aren't expecting to make significant inroads into the Black community, where Reagan's standing is at about the worst it could possibly be. A recent Gallup poll shows that only 10 percent of the Black community approved of the way Reagan is preferring his. But GOP operatives think that they gain some new votes from groups. The Hispanic Asian Americans evangelical Christians and people in the armed forces...
...American hero will always get him some votes up here," says Democratic State Senator Bobby Stephen. Glenn's reticence with voters and his performances on the stump-some fine, some less so-are making it hard for him to recoup ground he has lost to Mondale. The latest Gallup poll shows Mondale with the support of 49% of Democratic voters nationwide, while Jesse Jackson (14%) has drawn even with Glenn (13%). But the man whose pulse rate rose by only one beat when his problem-plagued space capsule re-entered the atmosphere seems unfazed...
Nonetheless, not one of Reagan's advisers regards the race as a cinch. They remember uneasily that in January 1980 Jimmy Carter held a 29-point lead over Reagan in the Gallup poll. Most Reaganites expect the campaign to turn close by the time the nation casts its ballots...