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...Richard Wirthlin, who does his polling for Republican candidates and the White House, said he saw no sign of a late Democratic surge. He said the Republicans probably will lose 20 to 24 House seats, hold control in the Senate, and drop a half-dozen governor-ships to the Democrats...
That result tallied with surveys taken for the White House by Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's pollster. He found that the President's popularity ratings dipped five or six points over the weekend following the announcement, but rebounded by last Tuesday after interest rates continued to fall (the prime rate was down to 12% from 16.5% in midsummer) and the stock market shot up (from 777 on the Dow Jones industrial average in mid-August to 993 at the end of last week...
...raising new money, Reagan seemed to be walking on eggs. He kept looking for other ways to shrink the deficits. There were none that he would accept, such as delaying the tax cuts voted last year. The figures grew worse, and the secret polls brought around by Richard Wirthlin showed the public souring on Reagan's presidency. Something began to change inside Reagan. He was struggling...
Opinion surveys taken in May and June, both by Reagan's own pollster Richard Wirthlin and by The New York Times with CBS, indicate that over 50 percent of the populace continue to believe that Reaganomics "has helped" or "will eventually help" the economy. What is most amazing here is not the majority's patience in expecting positive results from what John Anderson rightfully termed "snake-oil economics"--but rather, that they persist in believing that the policy was ever designed to help anyone but Reagan's political creditors in the upper class...
...ides of March looms as a crucial time. Pollster Richard Wirthlin and Counsellor Ed Meese have warned the President that just about now President Carter began to yield to outside clamor. He lost his power through retreat and vacillation...