Robert Teeter
Robert Teeter
Robert M. Teeterwas an American Republican pollster and political campaign strategist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
CountryUnited States of America
We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'
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Reagan is close to or ahead of the President in being seen as able to handle inflation, unemployment, government spending, and crime.
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Major policy decisions that affect them are now made by the courts, the bureaucracy and 'The Headquarters' of various organizations.
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Detente is a particularly unpopular idea with most Republican primary voters and the word is worse. We ought to stop using the word whenever possible.
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Probably the most single successful part of the '72 campaign was the surrogate program and something like it needs to be established.
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Moreover when Reagan and the President were compared on the handling of a series of issues of foreign affairs and dealing with Congress.
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This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
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While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.
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Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.
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The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
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Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
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As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
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Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.