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Though the decision to have another rules commission was made before President Reagan's mandate of November," the body's mission has been altered by the humiliating defeat. "When you've just taken a shellacking, you tend towards soul searching," says Orren, who worked as a pollster for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) last year...
...before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further." So vowed California's embattled Jerry Brown last week about the Mediterranean fruit fly, a pest that has pushed Brown's approval rating to its second lowest level in his nearly seven years as Governor.* California Pollster Mervin Field last month reported that 72% of state voters rated Brown's performance as "fair" or "poor." Some 60% criticized his go-slow approach to aerial spraying of the tiny golden-mawed Medfly, which thus far has afflicted only one commercial farm, but is spreading fast and could...
...Economist, a thoughtful publication that has kept meticulous accounts on Reagan. He has, the magazine noted, "astonished both his friends and his opponents . . . this is the week for ordinary people to call to him a clear 'bravo.' " Apparently the American people have been doing that. Pollster Richard Wirthlin last week hustled his latest sampling out to Reagan in California. It showed deepening support across the country-a feeling that Reagan's recent actions, from his victory over the air controllers right up to his air victory over Libya, have clearly been in the national interest...
...Democrats were encouraged by a Louis Harris poll published last week showing that the percentage of those who believed in the overall fairness of Reaganomics slipped from 56% in February to 33%. A poll taken last month by Democratic Pollster Peter Hart found that the public agrees, two to one, with the statement that Reagan's programs favor "the wealthy and big business over the average workingman." Claims Hart: "It's a beachhead that has been established...
...people at the lower end of the scale, economically and educationally. Before the advent of television news, this group was not much interested in news at all and was both stable in its opinions and passive in its political behavior. Robinson calls such people an "inadvertent audience" for news. Pollster Daniel Yankelovich thinks that an audience of that kind, forming attitudes about subjects on which it is dimly informed, helps produce the strong swings and gusts in current public opinion that he regards as one of the most disquieting signs of the times...