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Despite Bush's handicaps and Perot's irrelevence, Clinton does face some obstacles himself. Take religion, for example. The last time a Baptist (like Clinton) took on an Episcopal (like Bush) for the presidency was 1980, when Carter, a Baptist, got whupped by Reagan, and Episcopal...
...Congress to blame for the deficit, and members of Congress wouldn't want to blame a Democratic president for it. We explained last month why the deficit shouldn't be attacked with intensity until after recovery is fully under way (and why it isn't as bad as Ross Perot would have it anyway). But once unemployment and wages improve, the next president should work for spending cuts and tax hikes to shrink the deficit, if only because it makes Americans nervous about needed government spending and needed consumer spending...
...Democratic Convention in July, Shapiro joined forces with associate editor Priscilla Painton to cover the final months of Clinton's quest. Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor took up the Al Gore watch, while Richard Woodbury followed Ross Perot's on-again-off-again crusade. Through it all, White House correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame monitored the Bush- Quayle campaign. And P.F. Bentley continued his exclusive photographic coverage of the Governor. The result is more than just Clinton's story. "You have to understand all those campaigns to write insightfully about why Clinton has been so successful," says senior editor Joelle Attinger...
CAMPAIGN QUIZ Q The whirlwind round of debates produced such memorable one-liners as "I'm all ears" (Ross Perot) and "If I make a mistake, I admit it" (George Bush). Which candidates made these less-often-repeated statements? A "You can read my plan ... I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs...
...Ross Perot...