Word: garin
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Some analysis maintain that even in primaries, the amount of strategic voting is relatively small. "The public polls which appear throughout the media are, by and large, a product of the spectator sport element of politics," says Geoffrey D. Garin '75, president of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a private polling company, whose clients include Democratic frontrunner Walter F. Mondale...
...These polls do not have a very direct impact. For instance, you may end up rooting for the Yankees because they're in first place. But most people do not give their loyalties to a team--or a candidate--based on its standings. Even when there are many candidates," Garin adds...
...Garin says that though Jesse L. Jackson has tallied less than five percent in national preference polls, he has received abundant media coverage...