Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Partisans on both sides were awestruck. "Embarrassing, just embarrassing," muttered Mondale's campaign manager, Robert Beckel. Democrat Nancy Dick, conceding defeat in her bid for a Senate seat from Colorado, lamented, "My loss is part of a national disaster that our party is suffering." In the Reagan camp, Pollster Richard Wirthlin crowed early in the evening, "If these numbers hold, it's not [just] a landslide. The whole mountain will have moved...
...much too early, the public quickly tired of the hassling that went on all spring between Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, and both conventions got only so-so television ratings. A public fatigued by crisis and encouraged by returning prosperity has gone on a "mental holiday," one pollster concluded...
...Pollster Louis Harris found that many voters had accepted the White House explanation that the President had merely suffered an off night in Louisville. Despite an overwhelming verdict (61% to 19%) that Mondale had won the first debate, Harris reported, fully 46% expected Reagan to dominate the second encounter; only 33% anticipated another Mondale triumph...
...said to another, "I answered that before-wasn't I loud enough?" Republicans contend that displays of her clackety-clack Queens, N.Y., style put off vast numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical celebrity," he says. "Whether they support her or not, they applaud the fact that one more barrier has been broken...
Simon has stayed on the offensive for most of this bitterly fought campaign, in which each side is expected to spend $3 million. He is trying to make an issue of the Senator's inconsistency. Some of his ads ask: "Where will Charles Percy stand tomorrow? Only his pollster knows for sure." Percy's commercials tout "the Illinois advantage," alluding to his seniority, and attack Simon for sponsoring a symbolic bill in 1983 that would create a box on income tax returns for taxpayers to check if they do not want their payments to be used...