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Obama Says "Just Play It Straight With American People" While Using Polling And Focus Groups To Get Agenda Accepted

And I think that–I have such confidence in the American people. If you just play it straight with them, if you explain to them, here’s our challenge, here’s how we’ve gotten here and here’s where I think we need to go, then I have enormous confidence that the American people will rise up to the challenge.

President-elect Barack Obama’s top political aides are transplanting their campaign tactics to the policy arena, using data from polls and focus groups to shape the debate over a stimulus plan that may cost at least $775 billion.

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