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tie seemed from another world. Kennedy looked like what indeed he was, the youngest member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Curiously enough he had come to look much as Harvard overseers had always looked in their younger days. Watching him I suddenly realized that, in this young man moving rather elegantly among the slobs, the consolidation of a new class had—for better or worse— reached its conclusion.

Polling has a bad name in many quarters, and justifiably so. For this habit of “pre-testing the market,” when it is carried over into the field of politics, creates the imageconscious office-seeker whose idea of personal integrity is to stick a wet finger up to see which way the wind is blowing. With poll-happy candidates dominating both major political parties, it is now virtually impossible for the voter ever to get a meaningful choice on election days. Tweedledum and Tweedledee have listened to the same experts.

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John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain (1903–1995) was an American writer.

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tie seemed from another world. Kennedy looked like what indeed he was, the youngest member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Curiously enough he had come to look much as Harvard overseers had always looked in their younger days. Watching him I suddenly realized that, in this young man moving rather elegantly among the slobs, the consolidation of a new class had—for better or worse— reached its conclusion.

Polling has a bad name in many quarters, and justifiably so. For this habit of “pre-testing the market,” when it is carried over into the field of politics, creates the imageconscious office-seeker whose idea of personal integrity is to stick a wet finger up to see which way the wind is blowing. With poll-happy candidates dominating both major political parties, it is now virtually impossible for the voter ever to get a meaningful choice on election days. Tweedledum and Tweedledee have listened to the same experts.