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...true to form, even a bit crankier, his following is changing. For one thing, it's smaller. In the latest TIME/CNN Election Monitor, a continuing poll of registered voters, only 15% call themselves Perot supporters, down from 20% five months ago. He is losing support fastest among the affluent and educated, who also tend to vote the most. Independent voters, says a poll by the Pew Research Center, would now prefer a generic third-party candidate to the razor-tongue billionaire...
...success of such stores reflects a widening split in the U.S. between families with moderate and middle incomes and those earning $100,000 or more. Says Maureen McGrath, who follows retailing for Smith Barney: "Affluent consumers are becoming more affluent while the less affluent are becoming less...
...than a monarch, and is reminiscent of the well-loved but invalid FDR. Costuming by Holly Maples (a B.U. student) also lends a hand to creating the atmosphere of America 50 years ago: for the wealthy ladies, dresses you'd expect to see on Greta Garbo; for the less affluent girls, simpler, plainer dresses suitable for Betty Crocker. The most charming detail is the plaid suitcases that were the rage in the 1940s, carried by characters costumed as traveling salespeople...
...revolutionary battlefield that made Lexington famous is now the center of an affluent suburb, and the one campaign stop Buchanan's men had plotted for this state. Minuteman imagery aside, this was a sublime opportunity for the candidate. Here he would be in the crossfire and be winning. The podium was backed by a red and blue striped and white starred banner; it was surrounded by the Secret Service. Roped in front, about 100 agitated supporters stood, patiently awaiting the descent of their savior who was to arrive some 20 minutes late on a hired...
That afternoon he arrived at the Goffstown fire station, to stand before half a dozen firemen and a spray of cameras. The one thing missing was a crowd. Only about 12 supporters turned up, and some were regulars; two were an affluent Marshalltown, Iowa, couple. His voice thick, his eyes red as the truck behind him, Dole began to recite his catechism, but the words never burn into the people who hear them. "It's about ideas, it's about the future," he told the crowd, neglecting to offer up those specific ideas about the future. "It's about character...