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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.
Robert Teeter
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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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Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
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Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
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The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.
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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.
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Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
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Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.
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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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The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
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People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
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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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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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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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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
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