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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Cooper said his State Department past has involved him "centrally or peripherally in everything in foreign affairs except SALT and the release of the hostages in Iran." Most recently, Cooper added, he has been working on economic sanctions of the Soviet Union...
...although there is agreement on the fact that the gap widened at the end, no one except Caddell and Wirthlin came close to calling the margin. The Harris organization, which is claiming great credit for doing better than other public polls, was four points off Reagan's actual voting percentage, the largest error factor it has ever had in a presidential election. Gallup not only also missed the winner's voting percentage by four points but further erred by saying that Reagan was ahead by a margin of only three points. The margin was, says George Gallup...
...Says he: "I can't buy their approach to making es timates from data. I'm not prepared to throw out our techniques just because one poll produced a different number. In fact, if we were doing this all again, I would not change a single thing except to poll the last two days of the campaign. To believe their figures, too many other people have to be wrong...
...curiously, none of the networks is actually losing, except in pride. The war that began when ABC launched Good Morning America five years ago has increased ratings for all three networks. ABC'S early-morning Nielsens have nearly quadrupled, and last year alone its audience increased almost 29%. The advance has not come at the expense of either NBC or CBS, however. NBC has gained slightly, and CBS with Kuralt has gained greatly, though it is too early to say if it will keep all its new viewers...
...Hemingway? I don't like his novels much, except that one about Spain." In stead, the author pores over maps, diaries and histories. In addition, he regularly does field work in Durango, Colo., so that he can be close to the land he writes about. If L' Amour is not praised as a prose stylist, he is applauded for lore that is accurate down to the last lariat...