Word: perotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, however, it is hard to deny his importance on the American political landscape, both because he has become something of a beacon for the traditionally disaffected voter, and because he is locked in a battle for control of the Reform Party with its eccentric founder, H. Ross Perot...
...long time this campaign rightfully ?- and then wrongfully ?- thought the right strategy was to engage Bush," one Gore aide told the New York Times. "Now we have to acknowledge reality." The question is, will Bradley play along? Gore is a proven debater, having aced his stare-downs with Ross Perot and Jack Kemp, and a toe-to-toe could be his best chance to retake the momentum. Bradley, meanwhile, has campaigned as the lanky, unconventional, enigmatic outsider, and he?s in no hurry to lift the veil of mystery that has just started to work in his favor. Gore says...
...George W. Bush is trying to keep his enemies closer, he's got a funny way of showing it. Even while extending another GOP olive branch to Pat Buchanan (well, mostly to his supporters), Bush hinted Wednesday night that the nascent Perot-Buchanan Reform party alliance was an attempt to do to Bush what they did to his father: Bring him down. "I've always thought the 1992 campaign was hard for my dad to get traction in the race because of, first, Patrick J. Buchanan, and then Ross Perot inflicted a series of cuts," the younger Bush said...
...general, third party candidates can serve an important function in a two-party electoral system. For one thing, third parties often address issues that other two parties won't. In 1992, H. Ross Perot attacked both Republicans and Democrats for their refusal to discuss the nation's burgeoning budget deficit...
...odds with a central tenet of the party's platform. Although the winner remains uncertain, so do the candidates. Beatty is said to favor running for the Democratic nomination; Weicker will decide in the next few weeks, but he told TIME, "There's so much on my agenda"; Perot has stepped back for now, yet no one can predict the moves of the mercurial Texan. Teamsters boss James P. Hoffa is thinking about the Veep spot on the Reform ticket, but will not run for President. That leaves Buchanan and Trump...