Word: polled
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...wasn't just intuition. The strategy was guided by a mid-1995 survey conducted by strategist Mark Penn. The "Neuropersonality Poll," as Penn called it, attempted to map the psyche of the American voter and became the campaign's blueprint. Armed with those data, every presidential remark, every action every gesture was pretested and scripted. No detail was too small. Rather than amble off Air Force One, Clinton marched; the campaign's most famous line, about "building a bridge to the 21st century," was intoned because "building a bridge to the future" tested less well; Clinton vacationed at Yellowstone National...
From the Voter News Service exit poll of 16,338 participants. Margin of error is plus or minus...
...these three values achieved a number of important strategic goals. It allowed the President to avoid divisive politics that pit group against group and interest against interest. It provided a clear opportunity for him to make a direct appeal to the common ground, which poll after poll shows voters prefer to the partisan divisions that many believe have infected our political system. Specifically, independents and moderate Republicans often preferred this values-based appeal to the more strident rhetoric adopted by Newt Gingrich and his colleagues during the 1995 budget showdown. Our polling also demonstrated conclusively that while voters preferred...
...October poll only 24% of the public could honestly say they were "paying attention," down from 42% at the same stage of the campaigns in '92. And in time, there was less and less to pay attention to. The only group to walk out of the Republican Convention was not the Buchananites but Ted Koppel and his camera crew. By October the candidates had become harder to find on TV than intelligent, nonviolent children's programming. There was talk, among the environmentally concerned, of recycling America's stock of voting booths as Portosans...
Last Sunday's Boston Globe poll showed Kerry and Weld in a statistical dead heat; 42 of those polled supported Kerry and 38 percent Weld. The margin of error was five percent