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...subsequent White House meetings on the budget. He followed the results with his closest advisers and their wives in the family quarters at the White House, the guests balancing plates of beef stew as they watched the network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with...
...Democrat Barney Frank in part because of her ads charging that Frank, while a state legislator, had favored prostitution and pornography; Frank in fact had voted for a bill to set up adult-entertainment zones where police could more easily monitor those activities. Half the voters questioned in exit polls conducted by station WBZ-TV called Heckler's ads objectionable...
Most perplexing of all, the networks reached their divergent conclusions from parallel evidence: raw-vote totals, samples of key precincts and "exit polls" of people who had just voted. All three networks, moreover, found that voters were about evenly split on the President's overall merits, on the efficacy of his economic programs and on the relative importance of unemployment vs. inflation and Government spending. Where the networks parted company, and went awry, was in judging the meaning of those Polls, or perhaps in believing that any consistent meaning was to be found...
Economic concerns dominated the campaigns at all levels, and by all accounts they were foremost in voters' minds, too Exit poll after exit poll showed Americans to have voted their pocketbooks, with mounting unemployment and still-high interest rates being particular worries...
...months in Asia, I covered more than 16,000 km by train, bus and river boat--like many of my fellow travelers, not so concerned with getting someplace as with being somewhere. In that spirit, it does not matter that the Trans Siberian may not be the most snappy exit, it is the most fitting, Besides, it's not a bad deal...