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...that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would be tantamount to a vote for Labour, since a hung Parliament would surely result in a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition. British voters did not want the uncertainty of either a minority or coalition government. Voters may also have become convinced -- Ross Perot, take note -- that a vote for a third party is a wasted ballot...
SUDDENLY THE WHITE HOUSE IS PAYING VERY CLOSE ATTENtion to this fellow PEROT, thanks in part to the alarms sounded by the President's son George W. Bush. George W., who lives in Dallas and knows a number of ardent Perot supporters, has been worried that the Bush-Quayle campaign has been underestimating the dangers posed by a Perot candidacy. The President needs 270 electoral votes to win. In 1988, though, Bush won 120 of his 426 electoral votes by margins of less than 5% of the total ballots cast. According to George W.'s calculations, the Democratic candidate...
...forget that billionaire H. Ross Perot could play the third-party foil in November, perhaps skimming votes from Clinton and preventing him from winning majorities in key states...
...fact is that Ross Perot's argument is not dissimilar from my own," Tsongas said...
...Ross Perot is a CEO who is used to people doing what he asks like that," Tsongas said, snapping his fingers...