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...communications director out of a job, several other aides squabbling, and Bush trailing in the polls. Baker's arrival as campaign chairman means that Campaign Manager Lee Atwater moves over, if not down. Richard Darman, Baker's trusted adviser at the White House and Treasury, gains ever more influence. Pollster Robert Teeter stays put, as does Chief of Staff Craig Fuller...
Bush's chief pollster, veteran of six presidential campaigns, he helped bring Gerald Ford from 30 points behind in 1976 to within a couple of points of Jimmy Carter. Low-key and relatively untouched by Potomoc fever, he has never moved from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Washington. Teeter's influence on strategy may wane as the aggressive Darman moves in on issues and as Roger Ailes mushrooms all over the place. Still, Bush entrusted Teeter, 49, with paring down the list of vice-presidential possibilities and screening the survivors. Teeter also supervised Bush's acceptance speech...
...fresh popularity of earmarking shows that much has changed, and much has not, since ten years ago this week, when Californians endorsed the tax- slashing Proposition 13 and triggered a national tax revolt. Pollster Mervin Field has found that while opinion still runs against any general tax increase, 7 out of 10 Californians would support higher taxes for specific programs -- even efforts for the homeless. South Dakota's former Republican Governor William Janklow, a populist proponent of earmarking, explains, "People know that if they just trust the money to government, it's going to suck it up like an amoeba...
...held back. The "aggressives" suffered a major reversal last week when Peter Teeley asked to be relieved of his duties as communications director. He complained that he was frozen out by two colleagues who generally reinforce Bush's own cautious instincts, Chief of Staff Craig Fuller and Pollster Bob Teeter. The first visible fissure in an otherwise harmonious and efficient organization, the Teeley move underscored Bush's failure to decide on an effective strategy. To compound the difficulties, Bush's sometimes startling deficiencies as a campaigner have emerged in some recent California performances. In a talk to a group...
Meese does not rage when he hears this talk. He is watching the numbers produced by Republican Pollster Richard Wirthlin. So far the Meese issue is only a tiny blip, far below public concern about drugs and jobs. He was rumbling down Pennsylvania Avenue in his limousine last week when an aide showed him a piece of wire copy, quoting Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, who was traveling with Reagan on Air Force One. While saying he would wait for the McKay report before suggesting Meese should resign, Weicker snorted, "I've been battling the son of a bitch...