Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitterness of the Democratic establishment toward Hart is palpable. Party Chairman Paul Kirk publicly affirmed that Hart was acting selfishly and said, "Donna Rice is going to be relevant." Charles Whitehead, the Florida chairman, snapped, "If he is a candidate, I am going to Europe during the convention." Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman said, "We've got a national Gong Show anyway, and here's one more guy in a funny suit coming on the stage...
...election is shaped by a handful of events that resonate with the electorate. Last week's wild-on-the-Street gyrations of the stock market are likely to become just such a political symbol, playing on voter fears that the economy has been held aloft by illusion. As Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin puts it, "We've seen over and over again in focus groups that people have had a sense of huge bills coming due, with no one knowing how to pay them." The market collapse, he argues, "becomes a defining event for 1988, because the potential for tragedy, which...
...Heritage Foundation, "is that the atmospheric conditions have to be right for thunder." Conservative indignation is difficult to sustain, even though Reagan has failed to follow through with his social agenda and is about to sign an arms deal with the Soviet Union. Explains Lance Tarrance, a conservative pollster working for Kemp: "Once outlanders get their man in, they tend not to behave like outlanders...
...Pollster Hal Quinley of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman also wonders about what this small group of respondents represents. "You would expect people who returned the questionnaire to be atypical," he says. "If sex was not very important, then the woman wouldn't answer. If it was a burning issue, she would." Other pollsters charge that Hite's questions are flawed. Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center is skeptical about Hite's finding that 98% of women want to make basic changes in their relationships. No one could disagree with the proposition that things aren't perfect, he says...
Biden was just about the last politician who could survive such an onslaught. Any number of Democratic pros were happy to see him stumble; Biden had surrounded himself with aides, notably Pollster Pat Caddell, who struck them as arrogant. Caddell particularly antagonized Democratic elders by talking about leading an "inside insurgency" that would capture the party for the baby-boom generation...