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LOOKING JUST LIKE A CANDIDATE IN search of TV coverage, Ross Perot turned up in Homestead, Florida, last week to commiserate with hurricane victims. In Phoenix, Arizona, meanwhile, Perot supporters held a midnight rally to start the petition drive that will place his name on the state ballot in November. Elsewhere, diehard Perotistas, with financial support from their billionaire hero, are completing work that is almost certain to give voters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia the chance to vote for a man who ostensibly abandoned his campaign for President in July. At Perot's Dallas office...
...states such as California, which require an official declaration of candidacy to get on the ballot, Perot has sent the necessary documents. Yet the day before his letter arrived in Sacramento, Perot told a TV interviewer that the chances he would actually run were "very remote, not even worth talking about." His most zealous supporters, however, refuse to take what Perot now says at face value. Says Orson s followers, he said, would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would...
...electing a new parliament seems more likely to increase political paralysis than to solve Georgia's problems. As Shevardnadze well knows, his countrymen may be famed as a nation of toastmasters, but eloquent speechmaking cannot compensate for the lack of democratic traditions. Still, the Georgian leader firmly believes the ballot box is the only way to force change. "There were some who wanted to turn power over to Shevardnadze," he says, "but I told them they were not going to make a dictator out of me." He plans to run for the post of parliamentary speaker as an independent...
...given up on Bush, they aren't all sold on Clinton. In closely fought Montgomery County, Ohio, an area that incorporates Dayton, Bush is in a statistical dead heat with Clinton and would win in a three-way contest with Texas industrialist H. Ross Perot, who remains on the ballot in Ohio. When voters who were leaning toward Bush are added to the mix, the President wins the county by 7 points. Such support for the incumbent ensures that Ohio will be one of the closest contests this fall. The Buckeye State, admits Clinton's field marshal Mark Longabaugh...
...evangelist Pat Robertson arguing against the Equal Rights Amendment scheduled for the November ballot in Iowa...