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Everyone is learning the game quickly. The most significant question of the campaign thus far may have come from Katie Couric, the host for Perot's two- hour call-in session on Today in mid-June. After he gave a waffling answer to a question about Social Security benefits, Couric shrewdly tossed the ball back to the caller: "Roberta, are you satisfied with that answer?" She wasn't, and Perot had to try again. Now more grass-roots questioners are probing with follow-ups, insisting on "specifics." At a time when TV journalism has come to the people, the people...
...conventional usage to refer to Ross Perot as a third-party candidate. In fact, he is nothing of the sort. Unlike the classic third-party candidates -- say, Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace, who in 1948 formed right- and left- wing offshoots of a real political party (the Democrats) -- Perot represents no party. He does not even pretend...
...Perot is a one-man band. The fact that one man alone could have had such a meteoric rise begs explanation. Yes, the country is disgusted with Washington gridlock. Yes, both parties have put up maddening mediocrities. Yes, America lionizes tycoons and is occasionally seized with the belief that they -- Henry Ford, assorted Rockefellers, most recently Lee Iacocca -- can save the country. And, yes, Perot has $100 million to blow...
...Perot phenomenon signifies something larger, deeper. It signifies a geologic change in American politics: the growing obsolescence of the great institutions -- the political parties, the Establishment media, the Congress -- that have traditionally stood between the governors and the governed. The traditional way to achieve and wield power in America is to tame or charm or capture these institutions. Perot's genius was to realize that for the first time in history, technology makes it possible to bypass them. Win or lose, knowing or not, Perot is the harbinger of a new era of direct democracy...
...First Perot bypassed the parties. He has no use for them, except as foils for his own pristine independence. He deigned to enter not a single primary, and yet was hailed by exit polls as the winner of California...