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Polls used to understand public opinu
□ The third annual
Presidential Roundtable
was held Friday.
By Heather Pace
The Battauon
Experts on presidential polls
said that by making public
opinion known to the president,
polls provide the means to end
ing government isolation, the
key to successful presidential
agendas and a road to the
White House.
The third annual Presidential
Roundtable was held Friday, Oct.
20 at Texas A&M and was taped
for broadcast on PBS.
The discussion was led by
Dr. George C. Edwards III, di
rector of A&M’s Center for
Presidential Studies, and in
cluded Stanley Greenberg,
President Clinton’s pollster;
Robert Teeter, pollster for
Nixon, Bush and PYrd; and Dr.
Robert Shapiro, a public opin
ion polling expert from Colum
bia University.
Edwards began the discus
sion by focusing on the common
criticism that presidents are
isolated from the public.
This isolation makes polls
imperative for understanding
public opinion, Shapiro said.
“The president should both
respond and lead. It is impor
tant to see where the public
stands on the issues,” he said.
Greenberg explained the histo
ry of polling, which was first used
extensively by President Kennedy
in the form of state-level polls to
gain strategic information.
“President Johnson took
polling to a more formalized
level,” he said. “He wanted in
formation for purposes of gov
erning, not just for elections.”
With the advent of new tech
nology, Nixon used more pre
cise polling and tracking stud
ies, and Reagan’s staff conduct
ed polling nightly during criti
cal periods of his presidency.
Today, focus groups are used
extensively for determining
public opinion. The groups con
sist of about 10 people who are
brought together for several
hours in an open conversation.
Greenberg said focus groups
provide policy makers with an
opportunity to listen to what
the citizens want.
“Washington D.C. is very re
moved,” he said. “Focus groups al
low ordinary people to be heard.”
A main topic of conversation
during the roundtable was the
difficulty presidents have in
meeting the expectations of
the people.
“The great changes in the so
cial fabric of the country and
telecommunications are making
it harder for presidents to meet
expectations,” Teeter said.
Focusing on how presidents
attempt to manipulate public
opinion, Greenberg emphasized
that presidents gain more sup
port when they go directly to
the public.
Roosevelt began this trend
with his fireside chats; today,
presidents often use State of
the Union addresses to garner
public support.
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Share questions and concerns with your
Vice President for Student Affairs
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Light refreshments available and a
drawing for door prizes.
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Look for our schedules in the Battalion on Mondays and Thursdays.
Stanley Greenberg, Robert Shapiro, and Robert Teeter discuss(k
difficulty presidents have in meeting the expectations ofthepeopl:
a Presidential Roundtable in tfie KAMU-TV studios on Friday!):
Presidents must use polls to
determine precisely what the
public thinks of issues to deter
mine the best method for
achieving their agendas.
Greenberg said North Ameri
can Free Trade Agreement is
an example of this process be
cause, according to initial polls,
it should never have passed.
By polling, the president
learned that many did not sup
port NAFTA because the public
did not know if it was an eco
nomic or foreign issue. Pollsters
then determined that if the
president portrayed NAFTA as
more of a foreign issue than an
economic one, the public would
be willing to support NAFTA.
Greenberg said the NAFTA
polls taught him that it is
you make the case, morei:
whether you make the cast' ^ ,
In the 1996 presidential;
tions, polls will be usedtot
light important groupso!
ers, the experts said.
Teeter cited one polh
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found 33 percent of Afrit: v j iere
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American voters havefm
mental Christian views,il
will play an important fa®
tin' upcoming elections ki
they will swing to the right
The election will bede;
mined by the candidate;
the events occurringinl^ am ’s
world at that time, he said
winner will be the candid
is hes
Hoi
;ather
who uses polling to bestfe amily
the issues.
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