As far as Larry Jacobs is concerned, you can get on President Clinton's case for any number of things, except for one thing: pandering. He says the latest research he's done does not support the contention that politicians at the Federal level are reading the polls before making policy decisions. Jacobs teaches political science at the U-of-M and, with his collleague Robert Shapiro of Columbia, had unprecedented access recently to more than a hundred workers and advisors in the executive and legislative branches. Jacobs says their goal was to test public perception of the job being done on both sides of the aisle in Washington. Larry Jacobs is a poli-sci professor at the University of Minnesota. Later, he'll be releasing more information from the interviews he and C