Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin cites a related requirement: "In 1988, the watchword is sincerity. Does the candidate mean what he says? Is he leveling with me?" But neither Jimmy Carter's Sunday School platitudes nor Ronald Reagan's "Morning-in-America" syrup will suffice this time because voters have been disappointed too often...
...Pollster Vilen Ivanov said he found that Soviet workers feel Gorbachev's economic reforms have so far meant more work, less growth and lower incomes. "The worker's job has not yet undergone any radical change in character, organization or pay," Ivanov told Izvestia. Still, when people were asked their overall view on Gorbachev's economic policies, 90% declared their full support, and only .6% expressed opposition...
...situation cries out for at least one of the party's heavyweights to join the festivities. "That's the most likely next big event," says Pollster Stanley Greenberg. "An established national figure who comes in reluctantly, someone who stands apart from the rush of present candidates, would change the game." Cuomo or New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley would attract instant attention, as would Georgia Senator Sam Nunn...
...want explanations as well. Taking on the guise of armchair psychologists, we point to Hart's puritanical mother. Perhaps his childhood of repression was the key to his adulthood of lechery. When we are at loss for answers we turn to "experts" such as former Hart pollster Pat Caddell who, in the most ominous of tones, confides to us that Hart has had a long-standing political death wish...
...Club in Washington. Quipped Laxalt, a close friend of Ronald Reagan's who served as his presidential campaign chairman three times: "In Western parlance, this hired hand is ready to take over as foreman." He already has the support of several Reagan loyalists, including Campaign Aide Lyn Nofziger and Pollster Richard Wirthlin...