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...about right when he said, before the choice was announced, "I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket." But that hasn't stopped people from opining that the most virulent anti-Semites don't vote (or will vote for Buchanan), that many live in Southern states Gore probably wouldn't win anyway, or that pro-Jewish sentiment could help him in key states like California, Florida and New York...
...course, for the Reform Party. The independent movement forged by Ross Perot, which garnered nearly a fifth of the vote in 1992, is in chaos. At its convention last week in Long Beach, Calif., there were shoving matches and a major split. One group chose former G.O.P. candidate Pat Buchanan, while a smaller group gave its nod to John Hagelin, physicist and transcendental-meditation advocate. (One sign at the convention: NOMINATE JIMMY CARTER TO UNITE THE REFORM PARTY.) Each claims the nomination and $12.5 million in federal funds, which leads to one question: After the schism, what happens...
...goes to the candidate, the commission must decide who is the Real Reform Nominee. It won't be easy. The FEC has never faced anything like this. Its first task: determine who followed the party's own nominating rules. That remains in dispute--naturally--since Hagelin forces have accused Buchanan of massive vote fraud. Hagelin supporters sent the FEC a six-page complaint, compiled an inch-thick sheaf of alleged evidence and were barely able to break for meals and their twice-daily TM rituals. "There has been a destructive process in the Reform Party for the past six months...
...scientist, he is definitely talking miracles. Many national polls had Mr. Buchanan pulling less than 2 percent of the popular vote and Mr. Hagelin less than 1 percent, and the popular impression of this week's madness as a meaningless two-ring carnival is unlikely to lend the two comabatants any additional credibility. (In one of the festivities' few moments of self-awareness, Reform elder statesman Russell Verney described the big picture thusly with mordant humor: "It's a close one, all right. John Hagelin is within one point of Pat Buchanan...
...Buchanan himself summed up the week's madness in a historical perspective: "Look, people forget these things in a week," he said. He recalled violence outside the Democrats' 1968 convention in Chicago and said, "Compared to that, this is high tea at Buckingham Palace." Adds Choate: "All the publicity is bad because it suggests a certain chaos," he says. "The Reform party's public image was badly hurt this week, but fortunately in American politics most controversies have a half-life of two weeks...