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...other student said he received a similar call from a caller also posing as a Newsweek pollster...
...their current face-off, Gore, surprisingly, is doing better than Kemp. The first test came during the two party conventions. Both men did well, "but Gore actually turned things around," says Frank Luntz, the G.O.P. pollster who used focus groups to analyze the various convention performances. "Before the conventions," says Luntz, "Kemp was preferred over Gore. After they spoke, Gore surged ahead, a reversal due entirely to Gore's home-run speech...
...irrelevant sideshow. As a result, his support nearly doubled, though by Election Day it had slipped back to under 9%--a long step down from the 19% he garnered in 1992. By making his campaign a vanity production, he succeeded only in muddying his party's future. Says Republican pollster Frank Luntz: "The desire for a third party will not come back until Perot leaves the political scene...
With or without Perot, a third party will never have it easy. The Republicans and Democrats are well entrenched, and only an overpowering reason would cause voters to reject them. So far they haven't found one, and G.O.P. pollster Ed Goeas doubts they will. "Independent voters are disaffected, and they don't pay enough attention," he says. "It always ends up back in a two-party system...
...prospects for long-term disaffection, however, are higher now than in years. By remaining as polarized as they have been, the two dominant parties continue to fan the flames of interest in an alternative. According to Gordon Black, a pollster who specializes in third-party movements, "Voters' fundamental problem with the Democratic and Republican parties is still unresolved. They want a centrist voice. So it isn't as bleak for a third party as it looks...