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...Bellotti and lieutenant governor Evelyn Murphy, the third surviving candidate, will train their guns on Silber, whom they fear for his brains, bile and ability to dominate the news. Says pollster Gerry Chervinsky: "If he gets going on substance, Silber is going to win." He would be a formidable general-election candidate whose stern morality could draw Reagan Democrats back to the party and attract liberal Republicans...
Early returns gave the feisty Bosch the lead, but by week's end, with nearly 87% of the votes counted, Balaguer had squeaked ahead with 11,000 votes. Declaring the election a "colossal fraud," Bosch called for massive demonstrations. Says a Dominican pollster: "It appears that the elder of the dinosaurs...
...Kerrey, like other Democratic mentionables, has not formed a political- action committee to raise funds, set up an exploratory committee, hired a pollster, secretly gathered a brain trust or assembled any of the normal paraphernalia of political conquest. At a similar point in previous election cycles, John Kennedy had barnstormed the U.S.; George McGovern, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale had functioning organizations; and Jimmy Carter and Richard Gephardt had wandered purposefully through Iowa's byways...
Though Cincinnati's reputation for conservatism is well deserved -- "Decency Central," local columnist Jim Rohrer calls it -- the city is hardly unique. Says Alfred Tuchfarber, a University of Cincinnati pollster: "Hamilton County tracks the nation perfectly on major social and moral issues." A poll released Friday by the Cincinnati Post and Tuchfarber's Institute for Policy Research showed that 58.9% of those questioned thought the Mapplethorpe exhibit should be allowed. Only 38.4% felt it should...
Bush has so carefully trod the line between will and wallet that pollsters hear few specific criticisms about him in focus groups and telephone interviews. Michael Donilon, a Washington pollster who in December conducted 200 interviews on Bush , reports that abortion is the only issue that makes people feel "uneasy" about the President. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat who praises Bush as "politically brilliant," adds, "He's saying all the right things, and he hasn't had to pay any price...