Word: pollstering
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...they've been working with him. The move comes after a G.O.P. Congressman attempted to introduce legislation requiring such disclosure to determine if influential counselors were making money lobbying the government. The four consultants affected by the directive include campaign gurus James Carville and Paul Begala as well as pollster Stan Greenberg and Mandy Grunwald. They say they have nothing to hide...
...debate in your home or office featuring Democratic pollster Peter Hart and his partner Geoffrey Garin battling it out with Norman Ornstein, analyst for the American Enterprise Institute, and Ben Wattenberg, author and host of the new PBS talk show Think Tank...
Just how many people don't like Clinton, no matter what he does? Around 25% to 30% of the population, a range that has remained steady since the beginning of his presidency in 1993. Pollsters call those statistics "high negatives," and they appear to be impossible to overcome. (Clinton's general approval ratings have climbed recently, rising to 59%, according to the Los Angeles Times.) Republicans, as expected, make up the bulk of Clinton haters. But apart from obvious partisans, the group includes the Christian right and apolitical citizens who just don't like the cut of the President...
...President's first year in office, the Democratic National Committee paid Greenberg more than $1.9 million for national surveys, tracking polls, focus groups and consulting services, most of it on Clinton's behalf. That compares with the roughly $400,000 the Republican National Committee shelled out to Bush's pollsters in 1989, some of which was for polling in the 1988 campaign. Even Richard Wirthlin, who as Ronald Reagan's pollster was considered to have almost mystical influence over the White House, didn't take the public's temperature for his boss as often as Greenberg does for Clinton...
From Whitewater to health care, Clinton turns to his pollster...