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...Zhirinovsky's appeal was read much like the maverick presidential challenge mounted by Ross Perot in 1992. Zhirinovsky, too, campaigned skillfully as an outsider. He slung verbal Molotov cocktails at a system tainted by gridlock and inefficiency. And he aimed right at Russians' pocketbooks, denouncing the economic reforms that have hiked the price of metro tickets from five kopeks to 30 rubles, pushed middle-income households toward the poverty level and withheld wages from such key constituencies as the coal miners. But like the U.S. billionaire, Zhirinovsky had far more to offer in the way of firebrand bombast than coherent...
Then, for the next hour, the talk show professor worked the debate less like a neutral moderator and more like Larry King peppering Ross Perot and Vice President Al Gore '69 on the North American Free Trade Agreement (though to be fair, Sandel was far more restrained than king...
...United States is facing an economic border war. It has nothing to do with NAFTA, but its consequences make Ross Perot's giant sucking sound seem like nothing more that a Dust-Buster. Yet the only skirmish to receive national attention was packaged as a battle about benefits for domestic partners...
Audience members erupted in laughter at the line, and Gore later said he was not intentionally mocking 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot...
...synch with what she calls the "real core of the Democratic Party" in the House. "I think he's the candidate of Wall Street," she said, "not Main Street." Kaptur predicted that the division will lead to an increase in independent voting and support for Ross Perot's United We Stand. "There are a lot of constituents out there who were abandoned," she said. As Clinton prepares to tackle next year's issues of health-care and welfare reform, he will be able to build on the lessons learned in the NAFTA debate. Among them...