Greenspan waited a bit too long to cut rates, but I don't think he waited seriously too long. He'll win, Doug. Political ideology or differences in philosophy won't derail cabinet choices. He got away with it when he probably was guilty. Obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and intimidation of witnesses worked quite well.
Polls are simply reflections of what people think.
You can never have too much of that in a democracy. Clinton used polls not to decide what to be for but to decide how to sell to the public what he was for and it was key to his tremendous success in passing his program. ET Clinton is not a redneck, as Primary Colors paints him. He wouldn't want to hang out in a donut shop chewing the fat with the locals. In his spare time, he reads books.