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...these ironies which, in the last week of the campaign, most clearly wedged Perot supporters from Perot detractors...
...incarnations that contain varying degrees of truth, Perot is both a folksy speaker and a spinner of international conspiracy theories. He is both a computer entrepreneur and a Bubba-like rebel. He is both a Texarkana boy delivering newspapers on a bicycle and a dashing rescuer of two employees from the depths of revolutionary Teheran. Most visibly, he is both a billionaire and a populist...
...Perot's own behavior has been the opposite of a populist," Brinkley says. "He's been insulated from media and insulated from the people.... He's entirely a candidate of media packaging. He's made himself into a series of sound bites unmediated by any other group. Yes, there's the occasional rhetoric, but it's not populism...
...tell that to August A. "Gus" Toda, the secretary of the Massachusetts United We Stand organization. United We Stand is the nationwide Perot alliance formed after Perot dropped from consideration in July and before he reentered the race in October...
...constant refrain of Perot organizers like Toda is that Perot has brought in Americans never before involved in the political system. Tethered by concerns about the national debt and energized by Perot's personal style and direct appeals, a broad range of people feel for the first time that they can effect change, the organizers say. And his ability to spark this feeling is what makes him a populist, they insist...