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About this time four years ago, Ross Perot was blowing up balloons and clearing the dance floor of American politics by polling, however briefly, ahead of wallflowers George Bush and Bill Clinton. By the time Perot had bowed out and waltzed back in and said some loopy things, he still was able to persuade 19% of the voters to embrace him. Four years later he is feeling even more festive. He has a real national party; the Reform Party he founded has managed so far to get on the presidential ballot in 23 states. He even has what amounts...
Last time out, Perot hurt Bush more than he hurt Clinton; 43% of Perot voters were independents, 31% were Republicans and 26% were Democrats. Lamm, on the other hand, having been a Democratic Governor and as a pro-choice environmentalist, may well hurt Clinton more--a point made by Lamm's wife Dottie, a devout Democrat and a friend of Hillary's who warned her husband that she doesn't want a Dole victory on her conscience. Formerly a Clinton supporter, Lamm himself has repeatedly blasted the President for breaking faith. "You choose to pander to America's special interests...
...mind great moments in presidential history: Truman integrating the Army in 1948, Eisenhower dispatching troops to desegregate a Little Rock, Arkansas, high school in 1957. But in fact, very few of Clinton's recent actions are formal Executive Orders. He doesn't issue them any more frequently than George Bush did. Instead, Clinton's tools of choice are known as "presidential directives" and "memoranda to agencies." A President's way of telling his bureaucrats what to do, they carry less weight than Executive Orders tend to. (The White House doesn't mind it, however, when the papers use the more...
...team's first memos, designed to buy time for the Americans as they gave themselves a crash course on Russia, was titled "Why Bush Lost." Actually, the parallels were eerie. George Bush's complacency almost exactly resembled Yeltsin's. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin team thought the nation's economy was improving and that the President would receive credit for it; in fact, only a small segment of the population enjoys whatever progress there has been. Like Bush, Yeltsin simply refused to believe that the voters would elect his opponent. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin campaign was in disarray...
...Despite Dole's recent problems, Barrett says he still has ample time to get in the saddle. The Republican convention is still weeks way, and Dole has yet to name his running mate and more clearly spell out his policies. "In the summer of 1988, Dukakis was ahead of Bush, and in the summer of 1992," Barrett notes, "Clinton had only just begun pulling ahead." -- Anita Hamilton