Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TALK-RADIO bashing is popular right now. Real popular...
Voke thus positioned the House leadership on the side of what many House members believe is the prevailing popular sentiment against any tax increase. The House budget plan presents members with a clear alternative to the higher spending and $604 million tax increase advocated by Dukakis...
...raise incident brings up a very important fact about talk radio: critics don't take into account the fact that the opinions voiced on talk radio actually reflect popular opinion. They seem to think that the talk show hosts generate the issues themselves...
...truth is that talk-show hosts only succeed in their efforts when the crusades they support are in line with popular opinion. The role that talk radio played in stuffing Congress' raise and in repealing the state seat belt law through a referendum are good examples of this. But when a host simply belabors some quirky point or another, the callers do not respond, and the issue is quickly dropped...
...listened to what the citizens of the Commonwealth had to say, they might have been able to mitigate many of the problems that later plagued his campaign. It seems foolish that politicians would spend so much money on elaborate polling procedures, when they can get an instantaneous update on popular opinion by just flipping on the radio...