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...Lead...or Leave" is ready to lead the charge. And we will not be alone in pushing for fiscal responsibility. Nearly 20 percent of the electorate voted for Ross Perot, whose campaign cornerstone was a radical reduction in the federal deficit. Perot's former supporters and their organization, United We Stand, along with "Lead...or Leave" and Tsongas' and Rudman's Concorde Coalition can work together to let our leaders know that the artful dodges of the past will no longer be acceptable...
...same issue that plagued him all year long: the economy. The country's anxiety over kitchen-table concerns allowed Bill Clinton to put together a coalition that is more diverse than any that has elected a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson's triumph three decades ago. Though Ross Perot's presence kept Clinton's popular vote under 50%, the Democratic coalition has the potential to endure much as < the Republican alliance did in five of the past six presidential elections...
...Republicans, as they had in the past three elections. Even in this right- leaning group, however, the Democratic ticket of two born-again Southern Baptists made inroads, drawing more white Evangelicals than either Michael Dukakis or Walter Mondale had attracted. Partly for that reason, and partly because Ross Perot ate into Bush's support, the Democrats were able to reclaim parts of the South and Southwest. Those regions had been the stoutest of Republican strongholds for most of the past quarter-century, since Richard Nixon perfected his Southern strategy...
...lunge toward the far right. Bush received only 11% of the black vote, half what he had once hoped to achieve. Jewish Americans, another group targeted under the "big tent" strategy that imploded, also eluded Bush. Seventy-eight percent voted Democratic, with 11% for Bush and 11% for Perot. Four years ago, Bush won 35% of Jews. Among white voters of all religions, Clinton tied Bush -- a better showing than a Democrat has made since...
...field, he managed to come across as enough of a centrist to draw slightly more support from independents than other Democratic candidates had. On the other hand, he ran behind Dukakis among those who identified themselves as liberal. A sliver of them apparently stayed home. And, despite Perot's appeal to independents -- the Texas billionaire captured one-quarter of those unaffiliated with the two parties -- Clinton still won a plurality of those voters...