Word: pollstering
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...able to spend the past 10 months on the high road, talking issues to some 350 groups ranging from Republican-leaning CEOs in San Diego to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. His dollars have also allowed him to lock up some of the hottest political talent, including Clinton pollster Mark Penn, Ted Kennedy's veteran media consultant Robert Shrum and California operative Darry Sragow, who is credited with masterminding last year's return by Democrats to a majority in the state assembly...
...talking fellow authors Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as best-selling scribe Al Gore. In addition, the First Lady has played host at a fund-raising dinner for Mauro in Washington and plans to follow it with another this month in California. The President's pollster, Mark Penn, has signed on to the race. And all this for a candidate with considerable baggage, including several brushes with ethics scandals, whose prospects were summed up as a "kamikaze mission" by the state's senior Democratic pol, Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock. So what gives? Friendship, for one thing: Mauro...
...people paid more attention instead of just doing it and saying they understand, this wouldn't have happened," said Sharon Freeman, a Cambridge pollster...
...weakest parts of Whitman's record: property taxes and auto insurance. New Jersey's electorate has a habit of choosing its politicians on pocketbook issues. "It's an expensive state to live in, and people are concerned about money being taken out of their wallets for any reason," explains pollster Mark Mellman. New Jersey leads the nation in average auto-insurance premiums ($1,169) and average property taxes ($3,864). Garden State voters are telling pollsters that these drags on the family budget are their No. 1 and No. 2 concerns...
Frank Luntz, a G.O.P. pollster, can already see the 30-second ad in his mind. It opens with ominous music and a deep voice recounting tales of abuse by the Internal Revenue Service. It cuts to images from recent Senate hearings featuring a priest as one of the agency's innocent victims and IRS whistle blowers testifying from behind screens to hide their identity. Then the voice announces that while Republicans want to overhaul the IRS and scrap the tax code, President Clinton and his Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, are defending the status quo. "If you like the IRS," Luntz...