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...creation was turning 40; an exhaustive coffee-table-book history (Completely Mad) was in the bookstores; and, as if to reaffirm Mad's relevance, the current issues of two other magazines (Esquire and Texas Monthly) feature Alfred E. Neumanesque cover caricatures of would-be Presidents (George Bush and Ross Perot). Is there any American under 50 who did not as a youth experience Mad's liberating, irreverent rush? Without doubt a certain New York Daily News obituary editor did: WHAT? ME DEAD? was a headline -- tasteless, allusive, funny -- worthy of the man who allowed Mad to happen...
...with 366 delegates to spare. Then why was this ordinarily almost cockeyed optimist forcing his victory smile as lamely as a first-time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot and, to a historic extent, a surging team of women candidates led by Democratic U.S. Senate nominees Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer...
...Perot, the world's most announced "unannounced" candidate, won the exit polling hands down. Democratic voters indicated that if he had been on the ^ ballot, Perot would have won 43% to Clinton's 29% and Brown's 23%. With even more anti-Establishment enthusiasm, Republicans gave Perot 52% to President Bush's 38% and Pat Buchanan's 9%. Reaching out to Perot supporters, Clinton in Los Angeles almost plaintively declared, "Listen, if you want an outsider, if you want someone who's passed a program, taken on interest groups, got a plan for the future, that's my campaign. Give...
...challenge facing Clinton is both simple and serious: How does he reintroduce himself to voters enraptured with the mystique of Ross Perot? For years, Clinton had been carefully prepping for a race where he would be the agent of change, the only alternative to the do-nothing status quo of George Bush. Now it is Perot who embodies this anti-Establishment anger, while the Democratic challenger is suddenly relegated to an uncomfortable me-too role as the candidate offering change for the timid voters still loyal to the orthodoxies of two-party politics. As a longtime friend of Clinton puts...
...Clinton swept California and five other primaries to put him over the top in delegates -- he embarked on a grueling tour of California's media markets. It was the kind of old-fashioned campaign day that probably should be preserved in amber and sent to the Smithsonian because, as Perot has demonstrated, presidential candidates no longer have to put their bodies on the line like this to get TV attention. First stop was the tiny San Joaquin Valley farm town of Kerman, a 40-minute motorcade ride from the Fresno airport. At a lunchtime rally in Oakland, Clinton lapsed into...