Word: polled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every other day, the White House runs up to the Hill with a new poll showing that voters overwhelmingly favor the President's agenda, that they don't care about his sex life and that they don't want him to leave office. But you can hardly blame Democrats for being unconvinced that any of this matters to them. "About a million gallons of toxic waste have been dumped on the soil," says a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill. "Yeah, you're measuring the groundwater right now, but that stuff's seeping...
...innocent bystanders--like the press!--at risk of a sexual inquisition. Holding up adultery to the light of the 24-hour news cycle has bleached the scarlet A. When used to bludgeon a political foe, adultery is not a human tragedy but a political one. "Will it hurt his poll numbers?" becomes the question, not how broken and scarred a spouse and children may be. With the press reveling in scandal (although we insist that we are not), even good people make bad excuses, searching for an asterisk to put beside their adultery ("It's old," "I was young...
...House impeachment probe Wednesday, saying it "puts the cart before the horses." An angry Gephardt responded by denying Gingrich a joint photo-op following their meeting Wednesday, perhaps the most potent political snub there is. It's a sign that Democrats are taking heart from the President's poll numbers and getting behind the White House's "censure plus" plan -- censure plus a personal apology to Congress, perhaps, or censure plus a large fine -- in an effort to get this over with. "Republicans have to face the reality that an overwhelming majority of the American people do not want...
...stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses were appalled by the President's behavior. Members were worried that they would be guilty by association--a chain the G.O.P. was beginning to forge in some ad campaigns in key districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious issues" to the top of the voters' agenda. They tie with crime and drugs as the No. 1 problem facing the nation. The poll also showed that scandal is discouraging traditional Democratic voters from voting. That fueled...
Morris says he took a poll on the voters' willingness to forgive confessed adultery. He phoned back a few hours later to tell Clinton that voters would forgive adultery "but not perjury or obstruction of justice." In other words, it was already too late. Morris testified that Clinton said, "Well, we just have to win then...