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.
Robert Teeter
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
politics
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.
strength
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
leadership management style
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
leadership management benefits style perception
It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.
belief
The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
travel
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.
leadership management conspiracy
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.
appearance
plans strategy
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.
perception
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