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Seventy-four percent of the 471 students surveyed at random said they would vote for the Clinton-Gore ticket, while 14 percent endorsed President Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle's bid for reelection. Independent candidate Ross Perot was chosen by five percent of those polled...
...Ross Perot, who at this point seems unlikely to be elected, would have to wait until January to wrestle with a Congress in which he has few supporters. However, Perot seems most apt to adopt an isolationist stance, since the movement to elect him is largely based on populist values...
...tone and format were altogether different in the Tuesday-night debate among running mates: a single moderator posed questions and let the candidates talk directly to one another. Vice President Dan Quayle and Clinton's No. 2, Al Gore, tore into each other with a zest that frequently left Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though...
...scholar in England, one citizen asked, "Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud?" Thereafter, the debate settled into a remarkably civil exchange far better suited to Clinton's talent for rattling off multipoint plans than to Bush's attempts to defend his record. (Perot, the consensus winner of the first debate, this time appeared vague and rambling, his folksiness turned wearying.) Observers noted Bush sneaking glances at his watch, as if impatient to get away -- perhaps from just the debate, perhaps from the whole painful ordeal...
What is left for Ross Perot is the rehabilitation of his reputation. Without the oxygen of feedback -- the laughs and snickers that accompany his homilies when his fabulists people the room -- Perot's act quickly tires. As he moves beyond diagnosis to prescription, Perot must ensure his presentation is persuasive enough so that if the nation's stagnation continues, he can reappear in 1996 to ask credibly, "Now are you ready to act instead of talk...