Word: teeters
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...opinion surveys and focus groups that show strong public revulsion toward expressions of criticism or even skepticism by Democrats in Congress and by news reporters. "We're seeing a rejection of the cynicism that's been with us for so long," says Bush pollster and adviser Robert Teeter. "The most important thing that has occurred as a result of this war is a watershed change in the way the country thinks about itself...
...insurance salesman, "we didn't have a cause that united everyone. Bush did it right. He got the cooperation of other countries, brought the U.N. in and let the experts run the war . . . If there was a war you could be proud of, this was it." Republican pollster Robert Teeter predicts that the gulf victory will especially affect the attitudes of young Americans. "These are people who had not seen the country either lead or succeed in a big way on anything for a long time, whether it was Vietnam or economic competition," says Teeter. "Now they've seen...
...chair Bush's re-election campaign in 1992. A proficient fund raiser, Mosbacher wants the job and ranks as a longtime Bush crony. But his talents run more toward glad-handing than mapping strategy or managing a far-flung staff. Those tasks will probably be left to Robert Teeter, a veteran of the 1988 campaign and public opinion expert. Chief of staff John Sununu also plans to exercise considerable control over the campaign. And hard-hitting political adman Roger Ailes, who has been coaching Bush on his TV appearances throughout the gulf crisis, is expected to return as image adviser...
...shock; imports have doubled since then, and last year accounted for more than half the trade deficit. Though last fall's budget deliberations did produce a token 5 cents-per-gal. increase in federal gasoline taxes, the possibility of further levies may have been scuttled when Republican pollster Robert Teeter found that Reagan Democrats were the idea's fiercest opponents...
...midweek Bush himself was chafing at the Truman approach. So he sought help from outside advisers, including two key figures from his 1988 campaign: political adman Roger Ailes and pollster Robert Teeter. Both men told Bush that his attempts to hang the budget mess on the Democrats looked defensive and that he would do better to change the subject. "Let's remind people that we've got some good things accomplished," a third adviser recommended. "Talk about the Clean Air Act. Talk about the gulf, which is more presidential. Above all, be yourself...