Robert Teeter
Robert Teeter
Robert M. Teeterwas an American Republican pollster and political campaign strategist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
CountryUnited States of America
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We need an umbrella under which we can put all of the President's programs and end up with the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
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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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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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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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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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The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
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While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
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While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
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I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
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We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.
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We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.
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There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.
We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'
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We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.