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...fascinating. If we had been just sitting here and I said, "I'll bet we can find a guy with a bad Texas accent who can in one minute say to people on television, 'If you want to put my name on the ballot in all 50 states, I $ will run as your candidate,' " and then I'd said, "Now let's go try to get someone to take the other side of that bet," everybody would have bet you anything you wanted to, because that won't happen, and I mention this to make one point. What is happening...
...outset whether he planned to run for President, Perot gave a typically forthright answer: "No." But 45 minutes later, Perot -- by all evidence impulsively -- dropped the biggest bombshell of the 1992 campaign. Yes, he'd run, and run hard, if his supporters would put him on the ballot in all 50 states as an independent. That "if" has been all but answered by the largest outpouring of volunteer enthusiasm America has seen since yellow ribbons dangled from every lamppost during the gulf war. (Perot, despite his superpatriot image, strongly opposed that war.) In an interview with TIME last week, Perot...
...nowhere independent presidential campaign. Not bad for an almost candidate who says he deplores the hokum and hoopla of professional politics. Not bad for a reluctant dragon whose supporters had just filed petitions containing more than 200,000 signatures -- about four times what he needs to get on the ballot in Texas. The speech, delivered in his trademark East Texas twang, was more sound bite than substance: "If I could wish for one thing for my children, it's to leave the American Dream intact, so they can dream great dreams and have those dreams come true." But the message...
Tarlin said he was confident Perot would be on the Massachusetts ballot, but said the volunteers would wait a few weeks before turning in the petitions to accumulate a more impressive number of signatures...
East Cambridge City Councillor Timothy J. Toomey, Vellucci aide Karen Uminski and attorney Kenneth May have field for the Democratic nomination. Vera E. Meyer, a Libertarian candidate, is also in the competition, and will join the Democratic nominee on the final ballot in November...