Word: pollsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is growing evidence that Carter's popularity has eroded in the South. One poll showed him losing to Ted Kennedy in his native Georgia. "Carter is like a man without a country," said Pollster Claibourne Darden. Added Beni Ivey, an Atlanta black woman who campaigned for Carter in 1976: "I get a sense that people just don't understand what is going on. And I'm confused...
...Carters have always been close, but Rosalynn's role as a political adviser is only now becoming clearer. She and she alone was consulted on every move in Carter's bid to revitalize his presidency this past month. The doleful documentation of national dispirit reported by Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell in his April memo deeply affected her, and she expressed her concern to her husband. Said one top aide: "She sensed that something had to be done before he did, and that had a huge impact on his thinking." So she launched with the President a personal study...
...next day, Thursday, the " President, Rosalynn, Vice President Walter Mondale, Chief Aide Hamiloton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell, Image Builder Gerald Rafshoon. Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat and Pollster Patrick Caddell gathered around a table in the President's Aspen Lodge and drew up lists of people to invite to the summit. The lists were broken into broad headings?one was "religious and ethical leaders," later inevitably nicknamed "the God squad"?and organized day by day. Aides began phoning invitations Friday morning, and the first group, a hastily assembled collection of eight Governors, arrived for dinner that night. Eventually...
Both couples were approached by third parties and asked to assemble some friends for a talk on national issues. They were given the impression that their guest would be Pollster Caddell. Caddell did call on the Fishers to inform them that the President himself would be there in an hour; he handed Bette Fisher $100 to buy refreshments. She rushed to a delicatessen about ten miles away and bought mounds of cold cuts and cole slaw, but Carter and Rosalynn, who accompanied him on both trips, declined to eat anything; they settled for lemonade. Ginny Porterfield had prepared coffee...
...face, the situation may help explain the mood of public disenchantment that has persisted long after the events-Viet Nam and Watergate-that were supposed to have caused it. Surely neither of those national traumas caused the drop of popular confidence in almost all key U.S. institutions that Pollster Louis Harris recently recorded. It also seems doubtful that either deprived the Administration's energy crusade of both popular support and belief. Could it be that many citizens simply feel foreclosed not only from knowledge but also from the power that knowledge would give them...