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...keeping him waiting an hour. In California a woman hires somebody to do her shopping for her -- out of a catalog. Twenty bucks pays someone to pick up the dry cleaning, $250 to cater dinner for four, $1,500 will buy a fax machine for the car. "Time," concludes pollster Louis Harris, who has charted America's loss of it, "may have become the most precious commodity in the land...
...reality: in many places racial antagonism is sharpening rather than abating -- a process that politicians, both white and black, have at times exacerbated. Republican TV spots on the Willie Horton case in last year's presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, "has rekindled in people's minds the connection between blacks and violent crime." - Affirmative action has provoked a second-generation backlash, particularly among working-class whites. In combining the roles of protest leader and political candidate, Jesse Jackson stokes this fear with his demands for "economic justice...
Baker had preferred that Bush appoint a troika consisting of Fuller, Sununu and campaign pollster Bob Teeter, who together would bring the necessary Washington experience, negotiating ability and personal clout to the job -- much like Reagan's first-term team of Baker, Michael Deaver and Ed Meese. But Bush was determined to show his independence. While some members of the transition team seemed thrilled to see the President-elect make a bold decision, others recalled that Bush was not always at his best on his own. Said a skeptical adviser: "There was a lot about this week that was reminiscent...
...social issues. Jesse Jackson and the left-leaning liberals will decry Dukakis' ideological blandness. Even the party centrists, whose position has been weakened by the twin failures of Mondale and Dukakis, can with some justice argue that a better candidate might win with the same strategy next time. Democratic pollster Peter Hart reflects this view when he says, "The steps that the party leadership took to position us for 1988 and the results of the congressional elections suggest that we were moving in the right direction...
...Haig quote saying "I did all the damage I could," Bush stared out a window and muttered, "That's sick.") That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top. Bush looked over at pollster Bob Teeter and said, "I thought you said I was 5 or 6 up!" Teeter shrugged. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, Bush's state chairman, assured him the voters could handle the ad. Finally, Barbara Bush chimed in, "I don't see anything wrong with it." Bush decided...