Word: polls
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Which is why not just those dismayed but also those cheered by Olliemania are missing the point. True, most polls show for the first time contra supporters drawing even with contra opponents. But Olliemania has about as much usable political content as Jazzercise. The contra poll reveals not a surge but a blip. Ollie's popularity, like that of his President, was not built of "issues." Critic David Denby, in a grumpy review of "Ollie North, the Movie" for the New Republic, theorizes that Ollie's wild popularity is attributable to his perfect -- i.e., all-American but ambiguous -- Hollywood face...
Although the capital was awash with expressions of support for Oliver North, reaction to the Marine lieutenant colonel among the public at large was more qualified. In a poll taken for TIME last Thursday evening by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* 60% of those surveyed call themselves "sympathetic" to % North, but no more than 51% of the respondents judge North to be totally truthful...
...poll also reveals a gain in public support for the contra cause, perhaps owing in part to North's testimony...
...TIME poll taken Thursday night showed that 84% felt that he was telling the truth when he said his actions were approved by higher-ups, and more people tended to believe him than to believe the President. North had won a certain amount of raw popular support -- an evident success with Americans that at least for the moment bemused and intimidated the congressional committee that had come to grill him. That popularity, however, might not help him later in courts...
...stunningly theatrical appearance, the outspoken Marine cloaks himself in honor and injured virtue. He insists he followed the orders of the President' s top advisers. -- Despite a wave of Olliemania, a Time poll shows that Americans find North more sympathetic than credible. -- This week the man most likely to implicate Reagan, John Poindexter, takes the stand. See NATION...