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...maneuvering weren't complicated enough, Ross Perot rejoined the game again last week, making an appearance on NBC's Today show to reaffirm his unhappiness over both Bush's and Clinton's economic plans. With Arizona becoming the 50th state ready to put the Texas billionaire on the November ballot, Perot appeared on the edge of re-entering the race. "I'm trapped," he told his TV audience last Friday. "They won't sell ((TV airtime)) to me unless I declare as a candidate. So I may be the first guy in history that had to declare as a candidate...
Republican officials refused to concedeMassachusetts to Clinton, saying a Bush win isstill achievable, particularly if Texasbillionaire Ross Perot re-enters the race, as heis expected to do Monday...
...states such as California, which require an official declaration of candidacy to get on the ballot, Perot has sent the necessary documents. Yet the day before his letter arrived in Sacramento, Perot told a TV interviewer that the chances he would actually run were "very remote, not even worth talking about." His most zealous supporters, however, refuse to take what Perot now says at face value. Says Orson s followers, he said, would monitor the candidates to assess how well they toe the policy lines he has drawn. If Bush and Clinton both satisfy him -- an unlikely prospect -- Perot would...
...scenario envisages a condensed guerrilla campaign, waged by TV commercials and appearances on the talk-show circuit that he exploited effecte, Clinton benefited initially. But recent polls indicate that many of the voters now uncommitted are Republicans who favored Perot last spring. If they drift toward Bush, as some analysts believe probable, Perot could attempt to court them with a targeted effort in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain states...
Whatever his strategy during the end game, Perot seems to be enjoying his ! mischievous role. He has spent about $13 million of his own money on his political movement this year. For that kind of cash, he apparently feels entitled to at least some influence...