Word: mcinturff
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...allies, a Chamber of Commerce-led coalition, has struggled to raise the $4 million it has spent to help some of the most endangered freshmen Republicans. A separate effort by the same group to go after Democratic incumbents has been truncated for lack of funding. Grouses G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff: "We're playing a game of poker with Congress: the other side has doubled its bet, and the business community is just walking away from the table...
Nader is more interested in spreading his message than winning. He is raising no money and intends to spend less than $5,000 from his own pocket, foreseeing a campaign of video- and audiocassettes. Still, Republicans are excited about his prospects. Says G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff: "The Greens are my favorite little splinter party...
...board. But while they have enough votes to stop any bill through a filibuster, that's a tactic that minority leader Dole is reluctant to use. He fears it will anger voters who want a vote on health care, not a procedural coup de grace. As G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff warns, if reform dies on the floor, "Republicans have to be careful to keep our fingerprints off the murder weapon." The real threat to the Mitchell plan comes from Democrats and their supporters on both left and right. Clinton's endorsement horrified House Democrats still committed to a bill that...
...Clinton plan, as to make some eventual broad overhaul of health care seem inevitable. Congress is hearing a loud message from back home: the public may not yet know exactly what it wants, but it is clear on what it does not want -- the present system. Pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted focus groups for Republicans in June, terms flat opposition to reform "a loser. You have to say, We're serious about making changes but at a pace that is a lot more compatible with a private market...
...Maalox, here comes WILLIE HORTON II. Republican pollster Bill McInturff says George Bush's 1988 attack ads will pale beside the campaign commercials both parties will air next year. The voters are mad as hell, and just about every candidate seems eager to harness that anger -- or at least deflect it to the other guy. Besides, TV ads are too expensive to waste on reasoned debate over the economy and the homeless. The bipartisan conclusion: keep it short -- and mean. Dan Quayle has appointed himself the "pit bull" of Bush's campaign. G.O.P. insiders boast that if Mario Cuomo runs...