Word: pollsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supportive when the tax debates were about raising the Social Security benefits. Then the people got to the bottom line and discovered who had to pay and how much. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims that the anger of businessmen over taxes this autumn is the highest in years. Pollster Louis Harris has placed the national ire at a level he defines as "public outrage." Tax experts believe that there could be a spread of local tax revolts, which temporarily closed schools in Ohio and Oregon. They also fear a rise in "bartering." An accountant may do the books...
...group has hired Pollster Richard Wirthlin, who worked for Reagan in '76, to analyze every congressional district in the country. Reagan can also call for help from an active old boy network. It includes G.O.P. state chairmen and national committee members in 28 states. Beyond that, Reagan backers from ten Western states have formed their own organization. Says a top adviser: "All they are waiting...
...Carter Pollster Pat Caddell believes that the first phase of Carter's presidency has largely been achieved. Carter's appeal is established, the country is calm and believing again, some good legislation is on the books and a few new ideas are being debated...
Caddell argues that Carter must now move into Phase 2. The President needs to spell out more clearly the vision he has for America, says the pollster, to show that he can actually improve the lives of the people. Caddell no doubt will soon have a memo on all this for the President to study. But right now there are beaches to walk and boats to mess with and boiled lobsters to savor...
...more knowledgeable about national issues. They see many more facets of a problem." That can of course be a disabling kind of sophistication. So can the fact that Americans have been schooled since the early '60s to a certain cynicism about in formation from their leaders. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "In the past 15 years the public has learned to live with the idea that accepted authority figures really can't be believed. The public would not be traumatized if Carter failed...