Word: pollsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Election Day he never went to the Oval Office, a rare departure from his schedule. He stayed in the White House's private quarters, padding around some of the time in a jogging outfit, phoning old friends and sampling the early television bulletins. His pollster Richard Wirthlin came around, and the two men looked at the figures. A sudden drop in Bush support in some spots had caused overnight concern, but then the tracking data through the day showed a solid Bush lead. He cut the photo opportunities down to a lone picture of Nancy and him watching the early...
...social issues. Jesse Jackson and the left-leaning liberals will decry Dukakis' ideological blandness. Even the party centrists, whose position has been weakened by the twin failures of Mondale and Dukakis, can with some justice argue that a better candidate might win with the same strategy next time. Democratic pollster Peter Hart reflects this view when he says, "The steps that the party leadership took to position us for 1988 and the results of the congressional elections suggest that we were moving in the right direction...
...Haig quote saying "I did all the damage I could," Bush stared out a window and muttered, "That's sick.") That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top. Bush looked over at pollster Bob Teeter and said, "I thought you said I was 5 or 6 up!" Teeter shrugged. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, Bush's state chairman, assured him the voters could handle the ad. Finally, Barbara Bush chimed in, "I don't see anything wrong with it." Bush decided...
...polls said otherwise, and few outside theDukakis inner circle raised their voice todisagree. Pollster Lou Harris was one. He saidBush's margin was shrinking steadily...
...Bush pollster Robert Teeter, interviewed onNBC-TV's "Meet the Press," rejected complaintsthat the vice president had run a nasty campaignand said private GOP surveys showed Bush leadingby a bigger margin than reported by the network...