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...patriotism alive in our country" reflected the widespread joy felt by the American public at finally getting a chance to strike back against terrorism. When reporters asked whether he had any reason to apologize to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Reagan issued a one-word reply: "Never." Richard Wirthlin, the White House pollster, told the President at midweek that his job-approval rating had hit a heartwarming...
...hostages were being released approved his handling of the crisis, even though 42% considered the outcome more of a victory for the terrorists than for the U.S. Presumably, many of those polled thought a different course would have had an even worse result. Private surveys conducted by Pollster Richard Wirthlin for the White House at the same time showed a quick jump in the President's overall job-approval rating from the low 60s up to the mid-60s. That was still below his 71% high around the time of his second Inauguration in January, but marked a reversal...
Reagan's barnstorming for a fundamental change in taxation has helped him regain the momentum his Administration seemed to have lost earlier this year. His pollster, Richard Wirthlin, recorded a 71% approval rating for the President's tax-reform speech (the highest since his February 1981 call for large budget and tax cuts), and a New York Times/CBS News poll reported last week that his approval rating had gone up three points since...
...parts of Maryland and Virginia. Some 1.5 million people live within its confines, sustained by Government jobs, contracts, consultancies and the endless tasks of explaining and influencing the federal behemoth. "They are the most protected single group of people in America today," says the President's pollster, Richard Wirthlin, whose studies show these citizens far beyond the norm in education, income and political involvement. They are shielded from most economic shocks by the deep pockets of the U.S. Treasury; the deficit may be alarming, but the Federal Government is not about to close down. Wattenberg found that during...
...Wirthlin is not surprised. He has found the same "cocoon" in corporate life, where a group of talented people gather their ideas from the same information base and debate them with one another day after day. In that situation, seedlings of misconception can often grow to mighty oaks before reality intrudes...