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CAPTION: If the election for President were held today, would you vote for Bush, Clinton or Perot...
...anti-campaign, Rollins and Jordan say, they will be anti-handlers. As Perot put it, "They will not get me up in the morning, dress me, give me words to say, tell me what to do and where to go." Rollins will run the day- to-day campaign while Jordan concentrates on strategy and themes. Demonstrating what are increasingly formidable political skills, Perot sprang the announcement the day after the California primary, thereby eclipsing what should have been Bill Clinton's afterglow of triumph. "I think one of the challenges for Ed and myself," said Jordan...
...would be a mistake to underestimate the task facing the two men. Their biggest challenge will be to erect a nationwide organization without upsetting the enormous volunteer corps that got the Perot balloon off the ground. In addition, the gauzy notion of a bipartisan campaign, run jointly by a Democrat and a Republican, sounds better in theory than in practice. Rollins and Jordan, never before having teamed up even in their wildest dreams, may not agree instantly on the best approach, for example, to urban blacks or Southern evangelicals. And getting along with Perot may be harder than getting along...
...failure in a presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot's grip on the public's attention. But that did not stop the President from calling a rare prime-time press conference last week in a vain bid for network coverage. Only CNN and C-SPAN broadcast the event, which was designed to showcase an angry President pressing a reluctant...
Bush refused to engage Perot directly, saying he would prefer to wait until the "time warp" of summer has given way to the fall battle. But the press conference also emphasized just how out of touch Bush seems. When a reporter asked whether the President's low standing in the polls was not a rejection of his message, Bush's fuzzy answer hardly suggested a firm fix on the public mood: "I don't think so, because you ask in these deadly polls that you read all the time, you know, about -- relating to issues -- and it's vague...