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Presumably this trend was to continue, even in the face of George Bush's pork rinds, Ross Perot's "giant sucking" sounds, Bill Clinton's morning McDonald's runs (and evening, and noontime, and midmorning...), Garth Brooks's popularity and the rise of Home Shopping Club...
Clinton views the Perot vote as similarly in flux, and he intends to secure it. Thus, those of his plans deemed most attractive to Perot's voters, like welfare reform, national service and campaign reform, have been designated high priorities by the President-elect. Welfare reform and national service could be costly, but Clinton says he can push the "big bucks" into the "out years." Campaign reform is even better, a twofer from God. "The Perot people share my view that the system is broke," he says. "Campaign-finance reform is part of the way to begin fixing...
White's Little Rock audience knew he had strayed to Clinton from Perot, but they also knew he had never wavered from describing Clinton's numbers as "strained." So when White spoke, people paid attention. To those who had been at Blair House, it was all familiar. In fact, almost all White's comments reflected the Blair House presentation to Clinton, and a Clinton aide worked closely with White in Little Rock. "I was told they needed someone to deliver the hard message," says White. "They dumped the data on me and provided me with the graphics." In fact...
...Ross Perot...
...just that simple: if you're going to run this country, you've got to master a few basics. Perot elevated the tone of the campaign by lowering the glitz with a series of televised voter seminars on the deficit and other thorny topics. Although he lost the presidency, he won a consolation prize: Advertising Age named him Adman of the Year. If there have to be infomercials, this is what they ought to be like...