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...Ross Perot to the Washington Post...
...also risky, in terms of eliciting firm opinion, to mix questions about what people have just done in voting booths and what they would do in a different election. And Perot, who had not run in the primaries, had been spared the criticism and intense scrutiny inflicted on the active candidates. His strong showing in the exit polls so dominated news coverage that he won a publicity victory in contests he had not entered...
...would slip behind in polls and then, when pundits had nearly written him off, he would come back with a boffo convention speech and a blitzkrieg campaign. In the meantime, he would direct his army of surrogates to shoulder the unpleasant job of "defining" Ross Perot and Bill Clinton...
...moment, Vice President Dan Quayle is doing most of the heavy political lifting, arousing the G.O.P. faithful by labeling Perot a "temperamental tycoon" and attacking totems of the "cultural elite," from Murphy Brown to Time Warner and its rap recording artist Ice-T, as out of touch with family values. Bush likes to pretend he finds such negative tactics distasteful. When encouraged to comment on his sidekick's speeches, Bush is careful to distance himself with such lines as, "You better ask Mr. Quayle." But the Vice President isn't free-lancing; Bush campaign chairman Bob Teeter personally approved Quayle...
Some failure. Without even formally declaring his candidacy, Perot has unleashed a hurricane of discontent with politics -- and politicians -- as usual, sweeping up millions of citizens in an emotional crusade that could conceivably propel him all the way to the White House. Despite what may be a temporary leveling off in his popularity, the Texan still outpaces George Bush in the polls and leaves Democrat Bill Clinton in the dust. No other independent candidate in modern American history has mounted a more serious challenge to the two-party Establishment...