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...analysis valid? "I certainly don't feel very comfortable with the way he's used the data," says Hart Research president Geoffrey Garin. While Kleck based his findings on the Hart survey, his analysis of the circumstances under which guns were used came from other studies. Protests Garin: "We don't know anything about the nature of the instances people were reporting." Says William Eastman, president of the California Chiefs of Police Association, about the Kleck conclusions: "It annoys the hell out of me. There's no basis for that data...
...shaped by a handful of events that resonate with the electorate. Last week's wild-on-the-Street gyrations of the stock market are likely to become just such a political symbol, playing on voter fears that the economy has been held aloft by illusion. As Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin puts it, "We've seen over and over again in focus groups that people have had a sense of huge bills coming due, with no one knowing how to pay them." The market collapse, he argues, "becomes a defining event for 1988, because the potential for tragedy, which was abstract...
...Existing Subtext. "The basic rap against Biden," explains Democratic Pollster Geoff Garin, "is that he's a candidate of style, not substance...
Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin cites a related requirement: "In 1988, the watchword is sincerity. Does the candidate mean what he says? Is he leveling with me?" But neither Jimmy Carter's Sunday School platitudes nor Ronald Reagan's "Morning-in-America" syrup will suffice this time because voters have been disappointed too often...
...problem in the South. He opposes the President's policies in Central America and on Star Wars but has yet to offer a positive program other than wispy references to world peace. Nonetheless, Dukakis' pragmatic liberalism is appealing to a party searching for a post-Reagan philosophy. Pollster Geoffrey Garin contends that Dukakis is the only Democrat able to say, "I've seen the future, and I've made it work...