Word: pollsters
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...instance, has no death penalty, and the state's Republican Governor, John Engler, opposes capital punishment. So does Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. There's been one execution in Ohio since 1976, three in Pennsylvania. "The hang-'em-high culture of Texas doesn't play in the Midwest," says pollster Geoff Garin. And among Roman Catholics, considered a swing group, support for capital punishment is lower than among other groups, at least in part because of the church's aggressive stance against...
...porch-dwellers were shaking their heads at the thought of this Gulliver finally succumbing to the little men of the system. "A lot of people were surprised that Edwin, who has always been so smart, let them get so much information on him," Bernie R. Pinsonat, a Baton Rouge pollster, told the New York Times. "They had tapes in his office, tapes in his house, and they obviously nailed him. Regardless of what happens from here...
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When Gore's campaign advisers convened for a strategy session at his Washington residence last August, they were steeling themselves to give the Vice President some bad news. For weeks Gore's inner circle--which at the time included Eskew, campaign chairman Tony Coelho, media strategist Bob Shrum and pollster Mark Penn--had been slowly coming to grips with the ugly reality. That day they laid it on the line: not only was Gore trailing George W. Bush, but Bradley was coming on strong too. The challenger's favorable ratings were rising nationwide, and he had the money to fight...
...called push polls. These calls distorted McCain's record--exaggerating his role in the Keating Five savings and loan scandal, for example--in an attempt to push voters away from him. Though the Bush campaign claims only 300 of the calls were made in South Carolina, Bush's Michigan pollster, Fred Steeper, told TIME last week that his firm had placed several thousand such calls in his state. Steeper says he has stopped making the calls...