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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 95% Solution | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots of Second Opinions | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There They Go Again | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Bill McInturff, a young aide from the congressional campaign staff who was seated in the audience, was mortified. He leaped up to help the President by applauding, hoping that the others would join in and drown out Arnold. Alas, everybody, including Reagan, thought McInturff was endorsing Arnold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: A Flash of Irish Flint | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Sheldon F. Sackett, said J. W. McInturff, the head of the law firm, lately changed his ways and his corporate name to Sheldon Fred Sackett. "We loved Sheldon F. Sackett, but we cannot live with Sheldon Fred Sackett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paper for Sale | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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