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...supposed to be Clinton's week, and in most respects it was -- but for the stunner that would reduce his acceptance speech to a secondary headline in Friday's papers. Ross Perot's sudden withdrawal from the race he had never officially entered left many supporters across the country feeling betrayed. Their grand, impractical crusade seemed to fall victim to the most grimy practical considerations: Perot's inability to rev up his stalled candidacy. Hamilton Jordan and Ed Rollins, his odd-couple team of political handlers, were frustrated by the candidate's unwillingness to be handled. First Jordan was said...
...volunteers in political limbo, while both parties scrambled to make them feel welcome. Would his supporters turn out to be "basically conservative," as George Bush was quick to characterize them? Or were they issuing a "call to change," as Clinton rushed to claim? Early polls showed more of Perot's supporters opting for Clinton, but many were still too deep in shock to reconsider their options. Some were insisting that they would still cast a protest vote for Perot, whose name will remain on the ballot in half the states or more. In time, many of them will begin warily...
...Perot did seem to send his followers a signal about what direction they might take. He spoke about having been impressed in recent weeks by a "revitalized" Democratic Party. And that was even before Clinton's acceptance speech, which adroitly pitched the Democratic tent in the middle- class backyard. The President appears to have noticed too; he spent the week fishing -- but at the Wyoming ranch of Secretary of State James Baker, the Bush campaign chairman in 1988 who may sign on for a repeat engagement...
...usually happens after a prime-time political lovefest, the challengers bounced out of the convention way above the incumbents: a TIME/CNN poll conducted on the day Perot quit the race had Clinton-Gore topping Bush-Quayle by 20%. That lead was 3 points larger than the one that Michael Dukakis enjoyed in the immediate afterglow of the 1988 convention. But Dukakis kept his campaign in low gear, and the Bush team wiped out his lead with negative campaigning. This time the Democrats are taking no chances. The day after the convention, Clinton and Gore...
...amount of planning could have predicted the unexpected bouquet Ross Perot would throw conventioneers when he cited a revitalized Democratic Party as one reason he was dropping his campaign. Just before 11 a.m. on Thursday, strategist James Carville bounded into Clinton's 14th-floor suite at the Hotel Inter-Continental to announce that Perot was about to hold a news conference. Still dressed in his running shorts and tinkering with his acceptance speech, Clinton jumped up and turned on the television. "He was a little overwhelmed," reported an aide...