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Marvelous stuff, by a guy who proves you don't have to be Ross Perot to be funny. Keillor for Secretary of Spin...
...biggest hiss went to Pat Buchanan, the second biggest to Ross Perot; a dog wearing a "Barkin for Harkin" sandwich board got an arf (former Harkin aides were present). The eeriest reverse deja-vu moment came when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans...
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...time Ross Perot got around to making his ominous threat last Tuesday night, many viewers may already have tuned out. Al Gore had seemingly won the NAFTA debate on points, and there was a temptation to begin writing the Texan's political obituary for the next day's papers. But just three minutes before the end of the encounter, a stymied and annoyed Perot leaned into the camera and confided, "The whole House of Representatives is running in 1994, and a third of the Senate. We've got a little song we sing: 'We remember in November when we step...
...exchange drew no headlines, probably because it was Perot's personal vulnerability that stole the show. In a TIME/ CNN poll taken after the debate last week, only 18% of those surveyed said Perot won the debate, vs. 47% for Gore. Perot's overall popularity has fallen too. Just 35% said they have a generally favorable impression of him, down sharply from over 52% last summer. What kind of President would Perot make? A bad one, said 57% of those in the TIME/ CNN survey...