Word: hickman
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These frenzied efforts at spin control seem ludicrous seven months before the Iowa caucuses. But politics craves winners and losers, regardless of evidence. That explains the headlines generated by a debate focus group of 87 Iowa Democrats conducted by Hickman-Maslin, a Democratic polling firm unaffiliated with any presidential campaign. Their verdict: Dukakis, Gephardt and Simon gained ground, while Babbitt lost long yardage. Of course, such a tiny and far from representative sample is hardly conclusive. But in the game of momentum this Iowa focus group may turn out to have more political weight than its statistical worth...
Still, many people flocking into the megacounties consider them a close-to- ideal blend of city and suburb. "There are few things you can't do here within an hour," says Orange County Teacher Greg Hickman. "You can head to the mountains, the desert, the water or a shopping center." Agrees Gemma Turi, a public relations consultant who switched from commuting into Los Angeles to a new job in Irvine, near her home in Newport: "It's like being on vacation except you get to live here...
...entering the race later: keeping his options open in the event of a deadlocked convention, or not running but holding on to his power in the party. The other candidates affect unconcern, saying they take Cuomo at his word. But privately they are uneasy. Says Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman: "What worries the others is that Cuomo is the one guy who can run his own way without following the normal rules. They recognize that he is different from anyone else...
...which only has 66,000 residents. There were a few dissenters, of course: THE EMPEROR HAS NO BRAINS read one sign, and another said FARMS NOT ARMS. But mostly it was a greening vista of kids and parents on lawns fresh with forsythia; they were eager to show off Hickman High, one of the tops in the nation, whose tag is the Kewpies because its first athletic teams smiled through defeat...
...party strategists have watched the elections "close up," they have started hedging their earlier confident predictions. Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman warned against complacent optimism, harking back to 1982, when "Republican money pulled the rug of success from under us." Said a G.O.P. honcho: "For us to hold on in the Senate, everything has to break perfectly in a lot of states." He added soberly, "I've never seen a midterm election in which everything breaks perfectly...