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...elected follows the polls. Except when serious campaign money is involved, and then he or she generally follows the money. (Do you think the average Congressperson really believes 18-year-olds must have the "right" to buy handguns with silencers and armor-piercing bullets?) So if Lee Iacocca, who's joined the NAFTA push, can just get those poll numbers up -- and happily, they're rising -- then the Congresspersons will be able to vote yea. To many of them, this will be a relief...
What this whole thing really seems to hinge on is the polls. If Lee Iacocca can enlist Rush Limbaugh to persuade his listeners to rally round NAFTA, and if the Gore-Perot debate is scored on the basis of who's more right and responsible rather than who's funnier, the poll numbers will rise and NAFTA will pass...
...fair that Lee Iacocca makes 100 times as much as Bill Clinton or a that a senior law partner can make 10 times as much as a Supreme Court justice...
...Iacocca suddenly resigned a year earlier than had been planned from Chrysler's board of directors last week, saying it was "time to let the younger people do the driving." Iacocca had been chairman of the board's executive committee...
Actually, Ross Perot, Paul Tsongas and Lee Iacocca -- men of considerable popularity -- have proposed even stiffer medicine. Presumably, the millions of Americans who consider themselves Perot-lees favor his 50 cents per gal. phased in over five years. But 4.3 cents a year forever wouldn't be half bad either...