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...made a more revealing comment when asked at his press conference what had gone through his mind the last day. "I'm an engineer. I just rationally looked at the facts . . . You don't make good decisions with emotions." Like the good businessman he is, Perot calculated the cost-benefit ratio and found the bottom line wanting. His mind-set is different from that of a seasoned politician, who knows campaigns often encounter ambushes and that persistence under attack is a cardinal virtue. A disillusioned Perot worker in San Francisco, Ivan Sharpe, said, "He probably doesn't deserve the presidency...
...last week, in a confusing tease, he did not totally abandon the effort he had launched with his hyperactive mouth. In a dozen states where petitions are still circulating, he urged his volunteers to continue to work. In New York, by coincidence, the process started the same day of Perot's announcement. "We're moving ahead as if the press conference hadn't occurred," said Ida Lewis, the committee's spokeswoman. In Rochester, where the Perot movement has been particularly strong, its steering committee voted to organize a letter-writing campaign urging Perot to resume his campaign. Said county chairman...
Because many of his centurions shared that uncertainty, Perot went on the Larry King Live show Friday night to urge them to "stay the course as a united team." To what end? Perot sketched a vague but grandiose scenario in which his movement would exert "enormous leverage" not only on the presidential candidates but on nominees for Congress as well. If those candidates fail to toe a line Perot has yet to define, his followers would exact retribution at the polls...
Talk of converting the movement into a durable third-party effort had already cropped up in a few local organizations. And if some activists felt betrayed by his noncandidacy, many Perot supporters still seemed intrigued. The latest TIME/CNN poll found that 23% of registered voters would still pull the Perot lever if he remained on the ballot in their states...
...that Perot has punted, here's the morning line...