Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most electable challenger to Ronald Reagan? Pollster Patrick Caddell, a colleague and occasional antagonist of Mondale's in the Carter White House, says bluntly, "He's vulnerable. Can he excite people enough to central themes...
Even less certain was Pollster and Adviser Pat Caddell. "I hope we'd return it , he said, but I don't know. It's easy to jump up and say, I'd do the right thing.' " Besides, Caddell explained, he would have suspiciously looked the gift horse in the mouth: I'd wonder whether we were being...
...Reagan doesn't have the credentials to carry off this issue," insists Mondale Pollster Peter Hart. "He has three years of David Stockman's green visor staring him in the face." White House aides concede that the impetus on the education issue will be hard to sustain, since the Administration is simply urging state and local action rather than offering a program of its own. "We have to hit the issue hard now," says an Administration official, "and then bring it back next year." But White House aides feel that for the short term, at least, the President...
...Reagan record on blacks does not bode well for 1984. White House Pollster Richard Wirthlin predicts that Reagan, if he runs, will again receive only about 8% or 9% of the black vote. But with black voter registration expected to rise sharply, the Democrats' percentage could translate into substantially more votes. Said a White House aide: "The problem is not that we cannot get more than 9%. It's that there will be a larger black vote." Privately, Reagan strategists have conceded the black vote to the Democrats, despite knowing that it could hurt Reagan badly...
...powerful political machine followed. In recent months a widening net of federal probes has led to the conviction or indictment of seven White aides on charges of fraud and extortion. Although White has not been accused of any wrongdoing, the scandal scratched away at his image: a survey by Pollster Pat Caddell in April showed that 79% of Boston voters wanted new leadership in city hall...