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 have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.
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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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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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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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While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed 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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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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There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
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This is against a background of having been taught our system works best when made up of individuals who all act as responsible individuals.
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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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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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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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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.