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...variations among competing surveys -- including one showing deadlock a week before the election -- were caused by difficulties in calculating the increase in turnout. The Perot factor was also hard to parse. The Texan drew many of the voters who said they valued change, and might have continued to surge had he not wounded himself with his reckless charges about Republican dirty tricks. When asked the hypothetical question of how they would have voted had Perot not been on the ballot, Clinton edged Bush by 7 percentage points...
...Bush. His performance in the debates was drawing back many early fans who had defected when Perot pulled out of the contest on July 16. His rationale for withdrawal at the time: the Democratic Party had "revitalized" itself, and he feared his continued candidacy might cause an electoral-college deadlock...
...demobilize its troops according to the schedule. The former rebels claim that despite advances in political, police and land reform, they will not meet the Oct. 31 disarmament deadline because judicial and electoral reforms are lagging, and rebel leaders are still targets of violence. To break the deadlock, the U.N. proposed a six-week extension for compliance...
...July Pullout. When Perot withdrew from the race on July 16, he cited the risk that his candidacy might lead to a constitutional crisis by causing an electoral-vote deadlock and throwing the election into the House of Representatives. Since that scenario had been widely discussed for months, Perot's tardy reaction to it suggested two other reasons for his pullout: 1) the realization that he could not win, and 2) his unwillingness to bankroll a full-fledged campaign...
...After three weeks of paying its workers with IOUs because it has been unable to resolve a deadlock over an $8 billion budget deficit, California's state government has been called by its banks. Three of the state's largest -- Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Union Bank -- have curtly informed Sacramento that they will no longer honor the IOUs, nearly $2 billion of which will be outstanding by the end of this week. Bank of America had been handling about 30% of the IOUs since California began issuing them on July 1. Said a spokeswoman for the California Bankers...