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...Clinton 52%. Asked what "quality" most influenced them, 37% specified a desire for change, and 25% sought the candidate with the "best plan"; they chose Clinton by 58% and 51% respectively. Bush scored on taxes, foreign policy and the general issue of honesty -- but those issues did not sway enough voters to get him elected...
While they must remain outside the legal distance from the actual polling place, students will wave signs to sway the undecided or uncertain voters with "a friendly face," Chernack said...
These bureaucracies frequently utilize the media to execute end-runs around their bureaucratic competitors. A bureaucracy may broadcast a certain message through the media to sway public opinion and thus influence the President, or to broadcast their competitor's policy for public ridicule...
...candidates hurl statistics at each other, assign the problems of a nation to its deficit, or impugn each others' characters, we are lost in a sea of words and accusations, whose truth and importance lies beyond cognition. As campaign teams battle with Vietnam, or tax rises, they attempt to sway a public opinion which is unanchored in any certainty. Perot's astuteness is to play `honest', to pretend it's all ready to be understood and changed. But it isn't. Government and politics in the U.S. is an enormously complicated matrix of power upon which bewildered voters are expected...
Many physicians now concede that patients have been undermedicated for decades, suffering needlessly. One reason was concern that big doses of opiates could depress respiration, but a large part stemmed from an exaggerated fear that patients would become addicted. This fear, which continues to hold sway over American medicine, is basically unwarranted. A landmark study, published in 1982, followed almost 12,000 Boston hospital patients who had been given narcotic pain-killers. After eliminating those with a history of addiction, researchers found that only four became addicted to the drugs they received as patients. "You don't see cancer patients...