>From ABC News
By Josh Gerstein
Polling Chutzpah
In a new riff he has begun to work into his speeches, President
Clinton expresses his outrage over Republicans� use of � brace
yourselves � polling.
On six different occasions in recent days, he has denounced the
GOP for having pollsters advise them on what language to use in
the debate over prescription drugs.
�They�re so afraid of this prescription drug issue they have
hired pollsters to tell them what words and phrases they should
use to convince you that they�re for giving affordable
prescription drugs to our seniors, even though they�re not,�
Clinton said at a fundraiser in Washington this week.
In various appearances, the president has called the practice
�bizarre� and �astonishing.� Clinton also drew on his own polling
expertise to explain further. �This is not what you normally
hire a pollster for. At least, I don�t.
Normally, you hire a pollster to figure out how you�re doing in
an election, whether what you believe in is flying, and not to
change your positions, but to change your campaign, emphasize
other issues some.� On another occasion, he declared, �I never
saw anything like it in my life.� Some may have trouble getting
into as much of a lather about this as the president has. Even
if one accepts his central assumption that the GOP really doesn�t
want to offer seniors a serious prescription drug plan, the
president is a very imperfect messenger to be criticzing others
for misusing polling. After all, wasn�t it Clinton who sought
poll numbers on such issues as whether he should tell the truth
about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky? And what about the
poll on taken in 1996 on where he should vacation so as to please
the greatest number of voters? It�s hard to tell if the
president is being completely sincere in his expressions of
surprise or if he is shocked in the same way Claude Rains was in
Casablanca. But this is one argument Clinton may want to
consider dropping from his road repertoire.
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