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...Reagan's pleas for time to give his policies a chance are registering with many voters. Says former Vice President Walter Mondale, who has been campaigning for Democratic candidates: "You get the darndest feeling out there that it's supposed to be patriotic to go broke." Republican Pollster Robert Teeter asserts: "People would almost rather wait six months and vote." Indeed, Democratic strategists may be overestimating the impact of double-digit joblessness...
After all the campaigning was over on the night before the Section, I was not surprised or shaken when Jody gave me the bad news from Pollster Pat Caddell. It hurt me deeply, but I had already accommodated the disappointment that was to come officially the following day. Even so, we did not anticipate the magnitude of our defeat. To lose all but six states and to have our party rejected and the Republicans gain a majority in the Senate were additional embarrassments...
...Harvard students who get too smug about their work. Higgins tells the story of one campus politico of a decade back. In the second semester of his senior year. Patrick H. Caddell '72 was the chief pollster for George McGovern presidential bid A few weeks after receiving his Harvard diploma. Caddell helped mastermind the liberal senator's victory at the Democratic convention in Miami. --Marc O. Litt '84 --Christina A. Spaulding '84 --Sam Medalie...
Opinion surveys taken in May and June, both by Reagan's own pollster Richard Wirthlin and by The New York Times with CBS, indicate that over 50 percent of the populace continue to believe that Reaganomics "has helped" or "will eventually help" the economy. What is most amazing here is not the majority's patience in expecting positive results from what John Anderson rightfully termed "snake-oil economics"--but rather, that they persist in believing that the policy was ever designed to help anyone but Reagan's political creditors in the upper class...
...aide to Mondale. "We don't have to be on the frontier issues any more." Thus the party is free to overhaul shopworn policies and get them in line with the demands and limits of the 1980s. "Voters want a balance between budget cutting and spending," says Washington Pollster Peter Hart. "They are looking for equilibrium. The trouble is that Democrats tend to fulfill one half of that equation and Republicans the other...