Quotes About Pollster

Jimmy Carter's pollster Pat Caddell understood how dangerous all this could prove to the Democratic coalition: blue-collar voters were vulnerable to conservative appeals because they were "no longer solely motivated by economic concerns—which have traditionally made them Democrats." Now that they feared "change in society" more than losing their place in the middle class, they were "one of the most vulnerable groups in the Democratic coalition.

Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

So far as we know, no pollster has asked the public, "Are you getting your money's worth for the more than 40 percent of your income being spent on your behalf by government?" But

I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

It helped that municipal employees tore down opposition posters, and that the only independent pollster, Levada, was closed down two weeks before the election.

The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into—what else?—another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.