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...annoyance of fellow conservatives, Safire is equally freewheeling in attacking the competence and judgment of members of the Reagan Administration whenever he happens to disagree with them. He has upbraided Presidential Pollster Richard Wirthlin for accepting a polling contract from Americans who sympathize with the Palestine Liberation Organization and scoffed at National Security Adviser William Clark as "living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire has repeatedly criticized the Administration as acquiescent on foreign policy, particularly for its pledge to withdraw military support from Taiwan and its lifting of sanctions against construction of a natural gas pipeline from...
...measured. The office has an effect: after two years it has either toughened or weakened its holder. Leaders of other nations have also had time to come to conclusions about the President and take actions that affect the U.S. Virtually all the pollsters, including Reagan's expert, Richard Wirthlin, believe that in the third year public opinion, the essence of power, often tilts irretrievably for or against a President...
...vote was analyzed, it became clearer that the Republicans had suffered a more serious setback than first thought. By Friday, Pollsters Richard Wirthlin and Robert Teeter were telling the White House that on the local level the bottom had dropped out of the party. The pollsters were said to be "shaken" by how badly the G.O.P was routed in the statehouses and among crucial voting blocs. The only electoral group found to have given a majority to the Republicans was the one that earns more than $40,000 a year. One White House aide noted that "the Republican Party...
...Gloucester noted in Shakespeare's King Lear: "I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course." Reagan's stay-the-course theme emphasized his philosophy of reducing spending and the role of Government, and attempted to encourage voter patience with his economic prescriptions. Says Pollster Wirthlin: "Of those we surveyed, 58% said they believed the President's program would work eventually. It became a question of playing to the future...
Only 6% of the voters, according to President Reagan's own pollster, Richard Wirthlin, completely believe in the New Right agenda. Nonetheless, the New Right leadership last week saw no need to compromise. The Moral Majority's Ron Godwin vowed renewed efforts for school prayer and against abortion. And Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie, searching for new motivating issues, called for an anti-elitist "new populist revolt." At a somber New Right election-night party, Viguerie declared, "If we win or lose, it's not our doing. God's will is going to be done...