Word: perots
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While the party initially found appeal through its idiosyncratic founder, H. Ross Perot, and was later given new life by Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, its current torchbearer, Patrick J. Buchanan, is alienating voters like Davis and Hawkins. And so the Reform Party is still struggling to gain national credibility as it attempts to break the two-party hegemony...
...billionaire Perot ran for president under the organization "United We Stand America," spending over $60 million of his own money in the race...
...There are very few insurgent candidacies that have ever been successful," Linsky said, giving John Anderson, Ross Perot and Teddy Roosevelt, Class of 1880, as examples. "Most of the examples cut the other...
Voters here have an independent streak--Ross Perot beat Bush's dad in '92. Maine tends to reject the conservative wing of the G.O.P., and may like McCain's moderate tone. This is a closed primary, though indies can register as Republicans at the polls, provided they don't change affiliation again for three months...
After garnering 19 percent of the national vote in 1992, Perot's organization, "United We Stand America," created the Reform Party. Perot's showing in 1992 gained him federal funding for 1996, and his showing in 1996--exceeding the 5 percent federal funding minimum--ensured matching federal funding for the Reform Party presidential candidates in this year's election. Perot's showing in 1996 secured a place for Reform candidates on 21 states' ballots, and petitioning secured the remaining...