Word: perots
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...failed to show loyalty to his own party, the Greens, who have nominated another candidate in this election. Nader is now running as both an independent and as a Reform Party member, a party that has nominated such notorious anti-government conservatives as Jessie Ventura and Ross Perot. Nader effectively abandoned his own party after...
...let’s get real. Nobody is proposing punitive taxes or tariffs on foreign competition. Nobody is sure that new fears about what Ross Perot used to call “the sucking sound” of jobs sent abroad will actually be realized. Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia economics professor and former Samuelson student, responded to his old mentor’s concern with unshakeable—and, thus far, defensible—faith in American innovation to hold most jobs here...
...stay-the-course approach and Bush's. "Unlike 2000, Nader now has a single issue that can fuel him," says a worried Democratic official. Party strategists also say they are seeing signs that Nader is drawing some support from the kind of anti-Washington voters who flocked to Ross Perot...
...could be getting a leg up from various third parties. The idea is to have it both ways: collect their endorsements--and their access to a line on various state ballots--but maintain his "independent" aura. Two weeks ago, he won the nod of the Reform Party, Perot's old outfit, which would automatically put him on the ballot in seven states, including battlegrounds Florida and Michigan, if he chooses. And although Nader says he doesn't want the Green Party's formal nomination again, he could get its endorsement at next month's convention, which would...
...Billionaire: Branson's Quest for the Best," in which Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson attempts to prove there's room for more than one crazy billionaire on TV. And with Ross Perot not running for president this fall, who's to say he's wrong...