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Some of America's most iconic brands, including McDonald's and Pepsi, have banded together in an attempt to counter that possibility. The initiative, called Business for Diplomatic Action, was founded a year ago by Keith Reinhard, the chairman of DDB Worldwide, and Thomas Miller, an ex-pollster at NOP World. Its mission statement: "To sensitize American companies and individuals to the rise of anti-Americanism in the world and to enlist the U.S. business community in specific actions aimed at addressing the issue and reducing the problem." It has already published a quarter of a million copies...
...almost impossible to talk about it," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, "without being smeared by it." Reaction to the verdict raised the familiar visage of the Angry White Male (now joined by the Angry White Female, outraged by the jury's soft-pedaling of domestic abuse). "The verdict is going to play out in the subconscious minds of critical groups," he said, like the white working class, defined as couples earning about $25,000 a year, the same voters who shifted from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1994. Such voters may see the verdict as a form...
...address. Polling has encouraged the White House to use the term "personalization" rather than "privatization" on Social Security. But Democrats have to master the language to, and screaming "privatization," which many of them have been for weeks, probably isn't enough. "Privatization is not a dirty word," says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, who advised the John Kerry campaign, describing public feelings on Social Security. "Benefit cuts are a dirty phrase. Adding to the deficit is a dirty phrase...
...Jaffari, S.C.I.R.I.'s Adil Abd al-Mahdi and Sistani prot??g?? Hussein Shahristani. Whoever gets the nod, Washington will find itself having to deal with a group that has no natural affinity with the U.S. "These are all people who have one reason or another to dislike America," says pollster Sadoun al-Dulame, executive director of the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies. "If George Bush has to do business with these people, well, good luck...
...tidal wave of churchgoers won the day. As Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin notes, the percentage of the voting electorate that attends church once a week was 42%--precisely what it was in 2000. And President Bush's percentage of that vote was 58%, up a mere point from 2000. Bush's greatest gains came among voters who attend church less often, including an increase of 4 percentage points of those who never...