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...1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho man out in a boat saving people. "Nagin just went from almost a sure thing," says pollster Bernie Pinsonat, "to probably an underdog against Landrieu...
Inside the White House, though, aides were smiling again. Low poll numbers aren't worth agonizing over because many party strategists believe Bush has a ceiling of 52%, says Republican pollster Whit Ayres. "It's hard to imagine anyone who didn't vote for his re-election would approve of his job performance." And aides felt the President had aced his recent appearances. The strategy--a latter-day version of "let Reagan be Reagan"--was to get Bush out of rigid, scripted settings and have him adopt a looser, more self-deprecating style so that people would see the casual...
...That doesn't mean Canada is moving in the same anti-Big Government direction as, say, the U.S. At least two-thirds of Canadian voters cast their votes for the left-tilting Liberals, N.D.P. or Bloc Quebecois. But according to Ottawa pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Research, Canadians are increasingly inclined to take a gourmet approach to politics--picking policies that suit their shifting tastes, regardless of ideology. "More and more people don't want a political label," says Graves. And if Harper can manage government well over the expected short life of the next Parliament, they may be ready...
...have time to write about the group because his wife was having a baby. Emanuel showed up in the recovery room, said ?Mazel Tov? and immediately asked, ?when do you think you?ll be back to write that story?? He once sent a 2.5-foot dead fish to a pollster whose advice he didn?t like. Now 46, Emanuel went on to become one of President Clinton?s top political aides, pushing such popular ideas as expanding the use of school uniforms. He left government in 1998, made $16 million as an investment banker and then won a House seat...
...Over the past year we also had the Social Security debate, in which they didn't support the President's proposal," G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff says of seniors. "We had $3-a-gal. gasoline for this price-sensitive constituency. And they were concerned about the war in Iraq. So there's been a lot of stuff going on that's making them pretty riled...