Word: pollstering
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...country" reflected the widespread joy felt by the American public at finally getting a chance to strike back against terrorism. When reporters asked whether he had any reason to apologize to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Reagan issued a one-word reply: "Never." Richard Wirthlin, the White House pollster, told the President at midweek that his job-approval rating had hit a heartwarming...
...hostages were being released approved his handling of the crisis, even though 42% considered the outcome more of a victory for the terrorists than for the U.S. Presumably, many of those polled thought a different course would have had an even worse result. Private surveys conducted by Pollster Richard Wirthlin for the White House at the same time showed a quick jump in the President's overall job-approval rating from the low 60s up to the mid-60s. That was still below his 71% high around the time of his second Inauguration in January, but marked a reversal...
Reagan's barnstorming for a fundamental change in taxation has helped him regain the momentum his Administration seemed to have lost earlier this year. His pollster, Richard Wirthlin, recorded a 71% approval rating for the President's tax-reform speech (the highest since his February 1981 call for large budget and tax cuts), and a New York Times/CBS News poll reported last week that his approval rating had gone up three points since...
FOOTNOTE: *The pollster interviewed 1,000 registered voters between April 30 and May 2. The potential sampling error is plus or minus 3%. When compared with the results of previous polls, the potential sampling error is plus or minus...
Viet Nam left the nation with a massive and interlocking sense of bad conscience. Says Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "Those who didn't serve have a bad conscience. Those who did and those who supported the war and then changed their minds have a bad conscience. And the way we treated the soldiers who served there gives us all a bad conscience." Those who fought in the war carried a burden of guilt unrelieved by the customary rites of absolution, by the parades, the welcome home, the collective embrace that gathers a soldier back into the fold of the community after...