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...insists Pollster Louis Harris. After studying the divorce rates and surveying some 3,000 married people, as well as unmarried couples, Harris issued two reassuring findings last week: only one in eight marriages ends in divorce, and fully 89% of those surveyed say their relationships with their partners are satisfying. "The prophets of doom could not be any more wrong," says Harris. "The American family is surviving...
...Biden is a few years ahead of the baby boomers, but he professes to be a card-carrying member of their generation. Using language appropriated from John Kennedy and reworked by Pollster Pat Caddell, Biden exhorts those from their 20s to their 40s to trade up from dreary materialism to exhilarating activism. "The cynics believe that my generation has forgotten," he says in one of his stump speeches. "They believe that the ideals and compassion and conviction to change the world that marked our youth is now nothing but a long-faded wisp of adolescence . . . But they have misjudged...
...perfect strategy for entering the race later: keeping his options open in the event of a deadlocked convention, or not running but holding on to his power in the party. The other candidates affect unconcern, saying they take Cuomo at his word. But privately they are uneasy. Says Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman: "What worries the others is that Cuomo is the one guy who can run his own way without following the normal rules. They recognize that he is different from anyone else...
Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin cites a related requirement: "In 1988, the watchword is sincerity. Does the candidate mean what he says? Is he leveling with me?" But neither Jimmy Carter's Sunday School platitudes nor Ronald Reagan's "Morning-in-America" syrup will suffice this time because voters have been disappointed too often...
...Pollster Vilen Ivanov said he found that Soviet workers feel Gorbachev's economic reforms have so far meant more work, less growth and lower incomes. "The worker's job has not yet undergone any radical change in character, organization or pay," Ivanov told Izvestia. Still, when people were asked their overall view on Gorbachev's economic policies, 90% declared their full support, and only .6% expressed opposition...