Word: pollstering
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...wrong end. You talked to the Establishment. If I were a pollster, I would say, "What's this? My job is to tell you what people think. I get paid 100,000 bucks every time I tell...
This is light-years beyond the pollster calling. We run this country now by what the pollsters say. You know that and I know that, and you know to your toes that both parties don't make a move until they take a poll. If you ever see me doing that, just have me led away, because that is so goofy, you know. It's not what's the right thing to do. Let's take a poll and then follow the wind...
...Clinton won vociferous applause from the studio audience by informing the TV host that they would all "sit for a long time in silence" if Donahue did not get onto something else. But there are also hints that the issue is helping open a gender gap against Clinton. Illinois pollster J. Michael McKeon reports that dissatisfaction with Clinton is highest among women ages 18 to 44, and Sue Purrington, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the National Organization for Women, says "about 80%" of the women who talk politics with her have expressed serious reservations about the Arkansas Governor...
...contaminated by heresies like civil rights and support for Israel. These variations annoyed Buchanan, who for months before the race likened neoconservatives to "fleas who conclude they are steering the dog." When Buchanan began his quixotic presidential bid in December, notes Tony Fabrizio, who was briefly the candidate's pollster, "his goal was to cleanse the conservative movement of the people who don't agree with...
...Teeter, the 1992 campaign is shaping up like a recurring nightmare. It was 16 years ago that Teeter, serving as Gerald Ford's campaign pollster, watched while the incumbent Republican President came under relentless attack from a more conservative Ronald Reagan. Although Ford eventually won the nomination, he was badly damaged by the intramural fight and went on to lose a close general election to Jimmy Carter...