Word: pollsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achieve a kind of personal relationship with many Americans-including a number who voted for him with trepidation or even backed Gerald Ford. After the President's celebrated phone-in, when some 9.5 million people tried to get his ear, a telephone survey of 1,184 people by Pollster Albert Sindlinger found that 73% liked what they heard, while only 22% did not care for the show (5% had no opinion...
...national willingness to see a new President make good is traditional. Pollster Burns Roper found, for example, that during the period between election and inauguration, 64% of those reached in one survey described themselves as Carter supporters-"a measure of the good will he commands." Yet the really tough decisions, the ones that will divide people, lie ahead...
Billy Carter watched from a box in the balcony and Pat Caddell '72, Carter's pollster, escorted Lauren Bacall. The big names left after Carter's appearance, but the dancers danced until...
...decisive than the blacks. Carter lost the white vote, 47.6% to 51.3%. But he won roughly 92% of the 6.6 million black votes, according to Washington's Joint Center for Political Studies. Though a CBS survey gave Carter only 82% of the black vote and the analysis by Pollster Louis Harris gave him 87.3%, the Joint Center is considered more reliable since it compiled statistics from 1,165 precincts where blacks account for 87% or more of the population. Carter's showing compares well with George McGovern's 87% of the black vote in 1972, Hubert Humphrey...
...prove to be the white Southern voters who saw him as moderately conservative. Southern whites, after all, gave about three-quarters of their votes to Richard Nixon in 1972. If Carter seems to be overly attentive to blacks, they may quickly desert him. Carter's own pollster, Pat Caddell, feels that the Democratic vote among white Southerners was abnormally large; only Native Son Carter could have captured it this year...