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...vote. Volume II begins as our protagonist, after spending months of coy obfuscation and many millions creating his perhaps inaptly named Reform Party, declares his intentions forthrightly to his amiable megaphone, Mr. Larry King, but not before luring one hapless Coloradan by the name of Richard Lamm into the race so as to assure voters that Mr. Perot himself was not averse to competition...
...Long Beach, California (one day before the Republican get-together down the freeway in San Diego), will not be so much a convocation as a coronation. It's likely to be as lively as an Electronic Data Systems sales conference. Forget the balloons and funny hats. Backers of Dick Lamm fear that even placards and signs might be banned. The party's national coordinator, Russell Verney, says the convention will play host to only about 1,500 valid Reform Party delegates and is not for hoopla but for decision making. "The enthusiastic part," he says, will be a week later...
Even within the Reform Party, excitement seems to be at a minimum. For the party's nomination referendum, a total of 880,298 ballots were received by signers of Reform Party petitions. Only 4.9% of them responded, with Perot garnering two-thirds of their votes and Lamm getting 28%. In the arcane process Perot has designed, anyone getting more than 10% of the votes was deemed eligible to contest the party's nomination for President. Round 2, in which voters will be able to cast mail, phone or E-mail ballots for one of the two candidates, has already begun...
...candidates' response is easy enough to predict. Dick Lamm will say older gophers have to face death like everyone else. Bill Clinton will feel for those little gophers. Bob Dole's comment will be, "Probably the other thing, or whatever." But how about...
Then Dick Lamm entered the race, in a manner of speaking, and started talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs. "It isn't necessary to comment on every new museum that comes along," I said. "You don't see Bob Dole at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...