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Listen closely to the other candidates, and it is easy to conclude that Buchanan has, in one sense, already won. When Bob Dole denounces Hollywood sleazemongers, when Phil Gramm's pollster tells him to talk more about "fair trade, not free trade," when Arlen Specter starts to peddle a flat tax and Lamar Alexander blasts congressional pensions, Buchanan gets to lean back in the rented van that drives through the north country of New Hampshire and revel in remaking the Republican Party in his own image. This has become the Buchanan Effect. "All the candidates are responding...
Because the retired general wants the best advice, adviser Kenneth Duberstein has been quietly sounding out such top Republican operatives as pollster Bob Teeter and former Bush organizer Mary Matalin about the mechanics of a race: how to get on ballots and where to get organized first. Teeter and others have asked a small army of potential campaign staffers--including unaffiliated G.O.P. pollsters, media buyers and veteran organizers--to "stay loose" until Powell decides. Some operatives have been told to expect a "signal" by Nov. 1; others look for a mid-November announcement...
YOUR ARTICLE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF the gay travel market to Miami Beach's economy was interesting [TOURISM, Sept. 25] but a bit careless. The statement that gays "typically have far more disposable income than do straights" and the quote from the pollster who says that gays "clearly spend disproportionately more on travel than any other group" can only serve to fan the flame of a newer, supposedly more positive stereotype of gay and lesbian people. But still a stereotype. JEFFREY MOSTADE Cleveland, Ohio Via E-mail...
...speakers are "top people in the field who have really made their mark on the political realm," Cerny said. "It's really a once in a lifetime opportunity--where else can you have Bill Clinton's pollster teach you how to do polling...
...deeper than the Democrats, has cost the Republicans popularity points. Surveys now show voters as likely to cast their ballots for a Democrat as a Republican in congressional races; support for the Republican Congress has also declined about 10 percentage points since the beginning of the year. Says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman: "Independents are more likely to vote against somebody than for somebody; the question is,Who are they going to vote against? The Republicans are giving them lots of things to be angry and frustrated about." Recent polls show citizens believe two to one that the country...