Word: perots
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...Their wives are Waitress (or Secretary) Moms, and they live in suburbs or small towns near cities. They're doing better than they were six or eight years ago, but have little savings. Many voted for Perot in '92 and even in '96, some for Clinton. They are leaning toward Bush. They respond to candidates who convey the capacity for leadership. Gore's "fighting for hard-working families" pitch is aimed their way. So far, it has attracted many of their wives, not many of them...
...Ross Perot was included in the 1992 debates and his participation contributed to high voter turnout and won him some 20 percent of the popular vote. Despite the fact that one in five voters supported Perot in 1992, the Commission kept him out of the 1996 debates--he did not even win a tenth of the popular vote that year. Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura was polling around 8 percent before his state's televised debate--it was his performance in that debate which helped him win the election, gaining around a third of the popular vote...
...that it was losing a slice of independents Clinton had conquered in 1996--not just the soccer moms in the suburbs but the waitress moms who punch the clock and still struggle to hold it all together, new economy be damned. Many voted for Clinton last time but favored Perot in 1992 and don't always care enough about politics to go to the polls at all. That's why Gore spent so much time last week trying to convince them that the stakes this time are huge, and it's why he's talking about issues that would have...
...corporate executives about toxic waste. It was there during his first presidential campaign, in 1988, when he twisted the facts when attacking Michael Dukakis and baited Dick Gephardt for flip-flopping on abortion, an issue on which Gore had flip-flopped. And it was there when he demolished Ross Perot, Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley in debates...
Life isn't so simple, of course, for the Reform Party. The independent movement forged by Ross Perot, which garnered nearly a fifth of the vote in 1992, is in chaos. At its convention last week in Long Beach, Calif., there were shoving matches and a major split. One group chose former G.O.P. candidate Pat Buchanan, while a smaller group gave its nod to John Hagelin, physicist and transcendental-meditation advocate. (One sign at the convention: NOMINATE JIMMY CARTER TO UNITE THE REFORM PARTY.) Each claims the nomination and $12.5 million in federal funds, which leads to one question: After...