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...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...
...Existing Subtext. "The basic rap against Biden," explains Democratic Pollster Geoff Garin, "is that he's a candidate of style, not substance...
...Radicals tried to downplay the resurgence of the blue collar-based Peronist movement. "We knew it was coming," said Edgardo Catterberg, a party pollster. "There was a national sense of unfulfilled expectations." At issue was the government's handling of the economy. Inflation, which was running in the single digits two years ago, is now nearly 14%. Alfonsin's determination to make regular interest payments on Argentina's $54 billion foreign debt also continues to stir controversy. Addressing a business group late in the week, he cautioned, "We have lost the elections, but the tree has not fallen...