Word: pollstering
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...important personnel shift involved Susan Thomases, who had nominally been head of Hillary Clinton's personal staff but had annoyed others by sometimes abrasive forays onto their turf. For example, she blamed Stan Greenberg for a poll that included questions about Hillary's liabilities, which had led the pollster to write a memo about "the Hillary problem." Thomases in June was given the powerful but narrowly defined job of campaign scheduler...
...G.O.P. high command to ride first class on the 8:15 a.m. TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington after the first presidential debate. Seems he took a lot of heat for it from the bigwigs back in coach class, including White House chief of staff James Baker, presidential pollster and official campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget Director Dick Darman. "I've visited 35 states since February," Bond says, "and I've accumulated several hundred thousand frequent-flyer miles, which we're using to upgrade me at no expense to the party or the campaign...
...overpowering lead in California to the point where Bush would be competitive there. If the numbers in the nation's largest state begin to change, Bush would divert money and time to the West Coast. That would force Clinton to do the same in the final weeks. Clinton's pollster, Stan Greenberg, insists the Democrat's hold on California is impregnable even if Perot reduces the spread...
...latest recession has hit white-collar workers particularly hard, both in terms of layoffs and slippage in their real wages. "These people can't believe what is happening to them," says Illinois opinion pollster Mike McKeon. "They decided they didn't want to work in factories, so they learned how to use computers. They were rewarded with service-sector jobs in the 1980s, but now they're out on the street and no one wants them." Open season has been declared on corporate bureaucrats. "The middle manager has gone out of vogue in corporate America," says Lacey. "Indeed, the word...
...Clinton camp, meanwhile, came to the same conclusion. A sampling taken by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg showed that Hillary's favorability ratings shot up 8 or 9 points right after the Republican Convention. All the Hillary bashing in the Astrodome, says Clinton's top campaign strategist, James Carville, "played to a decent advantage for us. The Republican Party in Houston made a collective fool of itself in attacking Hillary. People want to hear other things in an election campaign than a distorted 1974 scholarly article...