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Birnbaum notes that Ross Perot's nascent party might be a possible vehicle for the group, but he adds that none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. There are also some ideological disagreements: "The seven in this group are all free traders, something that Perot is opposed...
...Powell Democrats drift back to Bill Clinton. But having been beguiled by the dream of a third way, voters won't go happily, and quite a few will be ready to run off again with any newcomer who talks their language. Take your pick. Newt Gingrich, Jesse Jackson, Ross Perot or one of his surrogates. Some late bloomer in the New Hampshire primary field. It will be a while before the restless American electorate has sorted out its discontents and settled on its candidates...
...last year. Now he tells the TIME/CNN pollsters he's headed back to the Democrats. "The Republicans made a lot of big promises,'' he says. "Once they got into power, they seemed to change. Term limits went out the door. They became what they replaced.'' Cronk was never a Perot voter, but he voices the big complaint of Perot's followers. For them, Republicans have not gone far enough on term limits and campaign-finance reform. Then again, neither has Clinton, so his support among those voters will be soft. In the Election Monitor, 20% of voters say they still...
...Perot too, the Powell withdrawal was a godsend. The general had already ruled out a run under the banner of Perot's new third party. Had he run instead as an unorthodox Republican, Powell the nonpolitician would have carried off a good part of the Perot vote. So Perot was happy last week to praise Powell while he buried him. On CNN's Larry King Live, Perot talked about what a fine candidate Powell would have been, while advancing his own agenda. Perot blamed "the dirty tricks, the gutter politics" for scaring off the best contenders...
...remind Perot's followers of why they rejected both parties in the first place, there is the prospect this week of a partial shutdown of the Federal Government or a temporary default on U.S. debt payment. Both could happen if the President vetoes the temporary debt-limit extension that the Republican Congress has put before him, and that requires him to approve their budget proposals. This is macho, partisan face-off time. If you're a Perot voter, or even if you're not, there could hardly be a better example of Beltway fecklessness...