Word: pollster
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While Buchwald mocks with broad burlesque, Baker approaches Campaign '72 in a whimsical fashion that is more serious and sometimes bitter. He describes his joy at being visited by a pollster, only to find that the survey concerns 1980; the present contest was settled in a sampling taken last July, and the 1976 election was decided only the previous week ("You'll be amazed," says the pollster, "how that one came out"). In another column, the average American voter is angry at being accosted by a candidate in a parking lot. "When my worst instincts are appealed...
Nixon too must pay attention to the tricky politics of peace. According to Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, Viet Nam is "the key" to Nixon's commanding lead over McGovern. But the U.S. public's conviction that Nixon is better able to handle the war might change dramatically if the Administration were to run into big trouble in Paris-or, more accurately, in Saigon. As the White House well knows, an obstreperous ally in Saigon refusing to accept the Kissinger-designed settlement might raise new doubts in the minds of the U.S. electorate about the Administration's course...
...began after the Laos incursion of 1971, when it became clear that Viet Nam was turning into a "proxy war" fought mainly by Vietnamese with sharply reduced U.S. casualties. "From that point on," says Gelb, "nobody could rouse the people on the war issue." Others, among them Pollster Daniel Yankelovich, say that reluctant tolerance of Nixon's stewardship began to turn to something like admiration after his decision to mine North Viet Nam's ports last spring-widely regarded by the public as a daring and successful riposte to Russian and Chinese perfidy...
Daniel Yankelovich, pollster for the New York Times, yesterday said that the recent boost in Americans' confidence in President Nixon is due to a belief that he has eliminated the danger of the Vietnam...
...weeks of interviews in McGovern's America, TIME'S Gregory Wierzynski found that the operative word is almost always "tone"?to change the tone of government, of the country. A young McGovern pollster, Pat Caddell, explained his feelings: "It is more a question of moral leadership than of program. It is the goal of reconciliation and salvation, of the spirit he gives the country more than the bills he proposes or programs he initiates." Yet if McGovern's America is a reflection of his personality, the man himself evokes none of the adulation that characterized, say, the John...