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Consider first Perot's personality and temperament. It does not require a degree in psychology to recognize a world-class paranoid. Perot starts with a firm conviction of his own superior gifts and high destiny. Then, if his actual situation falls short, he looks for scapegoats. In Perot's mind, nothing that has ever retarded his many causes has been his fault. Whether it is a band of shortsighted General Motors directors, government officials callously abandoning soldiers in Southeast Asia or journalists scrutinizing his background, Perot routinely views himself as the helpless victim of dark conspiracies. Is the collective memory...
...ROSS PEROT IS ELECTED PRESIDENT, IT WILL NOT BE the first time people buy something they don't need. A slick salesman's perfected pitch often trumps good judgment, and if a peddler lives who rivals Perot, he exists only in fiction. To an electorate eager for one thing above all others -- leadership of clear purpose, candidly proclaimed -- Perot seems a welcome breath of fresh air. With the penetrating clarity common to the slightly deranged, and with an air of bustling purposiveness, Perot has about him a kind of gravitas that appears to transmute political banalities into profound insights. Hear...
...Perot's specialty is clothing demagoguery with a semblance -- sometimes even a facsimile -- of wit and down-to-earth common sense. His call to "shared sacrifice" resonates with the nation's history ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself") and lends a certain credibility to his painful prescriptions. Much of what he proposes is philosophically charming, but the sacrifice he posits would be borne unequally, and his numbers are as questionable as those of his rivals. His pie charts and bar graphs convey heft, but when studied carefully, the bottom line relies on so many dubious...
...polls can be trusted (and even if they cannot, the rising worries of Bill Clinton and George Bush speak volumes), Perot has the potential to disrupt next week's election. Many Americans, it seems, are ready to squander their franchise -- which, of course, is not exactly the way Perot sees it: "You are throwing your vote away unless you vote your conscience." While indisputably attractive, these underdog's words fail on close inspection...
...race tightens in the final lap, as both Bush and Perot gain ground in a new TIME/CNN poll. But Clinton's lopsided electoral-vote lead will be hard to overcome...