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...both sides were awestruck. "Embarrassing, just embarrassing," muttered Mondale's campaign manager, Robert Beckel. Democrat Nancy Dick, conceding defeat in her bid for a Senate seat from Colorado, lamented, "My loss is part of a national disaster that our party is suffering." In the Reagan camp, Pollster Richard Wirthlin crowed early in the evening, "If these numbers hold, it's not [just] a landslide. The whole mountain will have moved...
...Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, says that it is wrong to ascribe Reagan's support among younger voters solely to economic self-interest. According to Wirthlin, surveys show that foreign policy was an even more important issue to them. Although they expressed their concerns about the arms race, Reagan came out ahead in their minds as the candidate who could better deal with the Soviet Union...
...were better off today than they were four years ago; not surprisingly, 84% of those voters went for Reagan. Only 20% said they were worse off, and 85% of them voted for Mondale. "People see things around them are better, and they give Reagan credit for it," says Pollster Wirthlin...
...group's automatic allegiance any more. A candidate with national appeal can win an election without catering to the interests of individual voting blocs. "Reagan does not have to target a set of issues for blue-collar workers, a program for Hispanics or women," says Pollster Wirthlin. "He appeals to all Americans." -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/Atlanta and John E. Yang/ Washington, with other bureaus
...acute questioner, and said to another, "I answered that before-wasn't I loud enough?" Republicans contend that displays of her clackety-clack Queens, N.Y., style put off vast numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical celebrity," he says. "Whether they support her or not, they applaud the fact that one more barrier has been broken...