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...research say public opinion is swinging their way, thanks in no small part to such high-profile advocates as Nancy Reagan, who has made her late husband's struggle with Alzheimer's an emblem of the campaign for stem-cell research. Support is solid even among Republicans, says G.O.P. pollster David Winston, who conducted a poll released last week by New Models, a Republican communication research organization. Surveying 13 Republican congressional districts across the country, Winston found that voters in those areas favored embryonic-stem-cell research an overall 66% to 27%, while Republicans supported it 53% to 37%. This...
...crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters "37 32 22" - his predicted share of Thursday's vote for Labour, Tories and Lib Dems. Close enough: the actual result...
...Laura showed up in her husband's TV ads, first as a quick, cutaway picture on his desk and then with speaking roles, as aides realized how her power registered with focus groups. "She's obviously the most popular figure in politics today," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's campaign pollster. "It's clear a lot of people who don't like the President like her. She adds to the President's humanity...
...Washington-and thus the president-seems out of touch. "The key communications problem is to take a variety of these disparate proposals like bankruptcy and energy and show how they're going to help the economy and jobs which is now the number one priority for people," says G.O.P. Pollster David Winston...
...this show, it may be working. Faced with polls showing Labour still gaining, Conservative leader Michael Howard redoubled his emotional appeal to "ordinary, decent folk, who know that things are wrong but are being intimidated into silence" by Blair's crowd of trendy metropolitans. Nick Sparrow, head of the pollster ICM, pointed out this was awkward turf for the Tories, "banging on about second-order issues," while Labour, though tarnished, "focuses on the economy, schools and hospitals people care most about." Dull and worthy, it would seem, still have their place...