Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats were encouraged by a Louis Harris poll published last week showing that the percentage of those who believed in the overall fairness of Reaganomics slipped from 56% in February to 33%. A poll taken last month by Democratic Pollster Peter Hart found that the public agrees, two to one, with the statement that Reagan's programs favor "the wealthy and big business over the average workingman." Claims Hart: "It's a beachhead that has been established...
...people at the lower end of the scale, economically and educationally. Before the advent of television news, this group was not much interested in news at all and was both stable in its opinions and passive in its political behavior. Robinson calls such people an "inadvertent audience" for news. Pollster Daniel Yankelovich thinks that an audience of that kind, forming attitudes about subjects on which it is dimly informed, helps produce the strong swings and gusts in current public opinion that he regards as one of the most disquieting signs of the times...
...class marshalls originally decided in April that they would ask Reagan to deliver their commencement address. Forman, who works at Decision Making Inc., a polling and research firm run by Reagan pollster Richard L. Wirthlin, asked her boss about the possibility of the President speaking...
...aftermath of Jimmy Carter's defeat, his pollster Patrick Caddell sat down to ponder the debacle with Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute, and Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan's public opinion expert...
Predicted Pollster Jerome Jaffre: "Most Chirac supporters will remain loyal to the center-right, but as many as one out of four may not." If Jaffre is right, more than a million neo-Gaullists voting against Giscard or abstaining in the second round could rob the President of reelection...