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What Brownback knew in his gut going into last week was confirmed in closed-door meetings by some cold, hard numbers presented to G.O.P. Senators by pollster Linda DiVall two days before the trial began. The party, she told them, was stuck with a ballooning bill for this ugly year. Approval of the G.O.P. Congress is in the 40% range and falling. Something had to be done quickly, so a group of Senators held a press conference Friday morning to announce plans to introduce the G.O.P. version of legislation for a patients' bill of rights. There will be more...
...course, this may just be what people think the pollsters want to hear. "There's a real disconnect between what people tell a pollster they want and what they will actually read," says former TIME executive editor Richard L. Duncan. After all, somebody's buying all those "Special Crisis in the White House" editions -- even if they feel bad about it afterward...
...QUINN and PETER KNIGHT. Also in the running for major roles are current chief of staff RON KLAIN, Housing Secretary ANDREW CUOMO and former aides ROY NEEL and ELAINE KAMARCK. Gore is said to be relying heavily on the advice of political consultant BOB SQUIER, moneyman TERRY MCAULIFFE and pollster MARK PENN--the troika that many expect to have actual control when it's time to hit the trail...
...wife and I are like the people in Magic Town, the '40s movie about a pollster (James Stewart) who moves to a town that is a perfect microcosm of national opinions and adopts a cover to keep the townspeople from getting self-conscious. In fact, I sometimes imagine James Stewart having coffee in our kitchen, disguised as a UPS deliveryman. "Some people on the route are saying that the President's actions were reckless and inexcusable," James Stewart says...
...rationale for voting in a year when turnout promises to set a record low. Even in Oregon, where mail-in balloting makes voting convenient, two-thirds of those registered sat out the May primary. "This is the least interested electorate in my 20 years of polling," says independent pollster Tim Hibbitts. The numbers show, moreover, that the people most inclined to vote are disproportionately Republican. Recent polls give Democrat Wu a 6-point lead overall, but among those likely to vote, the G.O.P.'s Bordonaro has a 5-point edge. Nationally, in a TIME/CNN poll last week, registered voters favored...