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...list of possible third party presidential candidates is a familiar one. General Colin Powell, former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Steve Forbes, the irrepressible Ross Perot and crusading consumer Ralph Nader have been raised as possibilities...
...both the Clinton administration and the Republicans who rallied behind NAFTA and GATT," reports economics correspondent Adam Zagorin. "Those free trade agreements were sold as great creators of economic prosperity and jobs." Zagorin says the higher deficits will likely re-energize free trade opponents like Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot who say U.S. workers can't fairly compete with imports from low wage countries like Mexico...
...idea of making a bid for the White House as an independent candidate. That alone would have been enough to throw both political parties momentarily off balance. But when Bradley also revealed-almost offhandedly-that he had phoned Colin Powell and was trying to get in touch with Ross Perot, all sides were hit with the realization that they are facing a presidential race in which the prospect of one or even several credible independent candidates will have to be factored in, and that some sort of alliance could result in an independent ticket featuring, say, Powell and Bradley...
...having trouble raising money even for a Senate bid and whose moves last week had a distinctly extemporaneous feel to them. Nor would his personal style or inclination toward scholarly disquisitions on Third World debt lend themselves to his becoming the high priest of a political movement a la Perot. "He's a man who disdains sound bites. He resists making complex things simple," says Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University...
...took the wild ride of Perot's 1992 candidacy to awaken the rest of the political world to the possibilities of running outside the sinking two-party system, and Perot has not ruled out the idea of tapping his billions and trying it again. He remains such a force that virtually every politician of national renown-with the notable exception of Bill Clinton, who nonetheless sent an emissary-braved the August heat in Dallas to lavish tribute on the jug-eared Wizard at his Oz of a political convention...