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...Clinton has not begun the gargantuan and ultimately unavoidable task of appealing to these voters. In fact, while he's doing a great job making his brand of neoliberalism appealing to liberals, he may be alienating the Perot voters in the process...
Finally, on gays in the military, Perot supporters feel about the same as most Americans on the issue (42 percent of Perotians and 43 percent of all respondents favor ending the ban). But they also feel that Clinton shouldn't be wasting his time pursuing something so explosive. They want him to work on the economy. Period...
Indeed, the problem was not too much diversity, but too little: Clinton didn't work for ideological and political diversity as well as racial. The president didn't include a single Perot supporter among his Cabinet appointees. Most were old-line liberals, and only a few (Bruce Babbitt at Interior, Richard R. Riley at Education, Robert B. Reich at Labor, and possibly Les Aspin and Lloyd Bentsen at Defense and Treasury) could be considered New Democrats, who appeal more to Perot supporters...
...Perot supporters wanted deeper deficit cuts. Depending on whose baseline you use, Clinton's budget would reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion. Clinton says $140 billion, but it's more like $104 billion, according to Harvard Assistant Professor of Economics Douglas W. Elmendorf. Whatever the number, it's not low enough for Perotians, most of whom would like Clinton to eliminate the thing entirely...
Clinton must remember who Perot supporters are and how they differed from Clinton supporters last year. Contrary to press speculation, Perot supporters were not appreciably different from Clinton supporters (or Bush supporters) in regional origin, ideological bent, income, race or education. For example, the average income of committed Clinton supporters was $39,430; it was $40,010 for committed Perot supporters...