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About this time four years ago, Ross Perot was blowing up balloons and clearing the dance floor of American politics by polling, however briefly, ahead of wallflowers George Bush and Bill Clinton. By the time Perot had bowed out and waltzed back in and said some loopy things, he still was able to persuade 19% of the voters to embrace him. Four years later he is feeling even more festive. He has a real national party; the Reform Party he founded has managed so far to get on the presidential ballot in 23 states. He even has what amounts...
...issues that attracted Perot's voters all remain on the table. Both Lamm and Perot promise an aggressive agenda of deficit reduction, campaign reform and entitlement cuts, problems that worry the swing voters who will decide this race. And even more promising, neither Bill Clinton nor Bob Dole has shown any inclination to talk about such meaty issues. Clinton served up another course of dainty presidential tapas, like overhauling the nation's meat-inspection system and cracking down on truants. He looked almost visionary compared with Bob Dole, who couldn't make up his mind on what he really thought...
...that with all this good news for Perot the prospects for him and his Reform Party seem to be growing dimmer? In a TIME/CNN poll last week, more than twice as many registered voters said Clinton and Dole have what it takes to be a good President compared with those who liked Perot. (Only 22% feel that way about the Texan now, down from 35% in May 1992.) In a three-way race, just 13% said they would vote for Perot, a slide from 19% last September. The major-party candidates seem to have concluded that the American public...
...Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers. If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote by mail, phone or E-mail. Independent monitors whom Perot has hired but whom he will not name will tally the results, and the winner will be announced Aug. 18 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania...
...much a crusade as a campaign. "This is almost like Cinderella," he says. "You wander into the wrong place, and you lose your shoe, and all of a sudden, you're a presidential candidate." He may not be a Powell, but Lamm does have some advantages over Perot, mainly being a fresher face with proven electability and governing experience, more campaign mileage and a subtle sense of humor. "Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself," Lamm deadpans. "That's what he intended...