Word: perots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...clean up campaign funding has been blocked for more than two decades. Meanwhile, George W. Bush, Al Gore and their political parties have hauled in a record $800 million and counting. But this is flinty Maine, which enacted the nation's first drug-price-control law, and gave Ross Perot his best showings...
...Note the lack of a candidate's name. From Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot to Jesse Ventura to Ralph Nader, American third parties have appeared on the national radar screen and then faded from it, with equal alacrity, for one main reason: They are cults of personality...
...When Perot won 19 percent of the vote in 1992, when Ventura won the governorship of Minnesota in 1998, how many of those voters were trying to elect the Reform party? In 2000, how many Naderites would miss a beat if he were running as the presidential candidate of, say, the Blue party...
...professed adherence to Ross Perot's Reform Party ideals, coupled with his idiosyncratic proposals, has prompted voters to ask whether Hagelin is carrying the mantle of the Reform Party or whether he is just an eccentric...
With his running mate, Nat Goldhaber, Hagelin has garnered support from the New York Independence Party, the Natural Law Party and what he terms "the best of the Reform Party" to try to sustain the party founded by Perot...