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Forbes' real contribution to this year's campaign has been to show that lucrative spending cannot develop a constituency. In the Iowa straw poll last August--although no delegates were at stake--Forbes spent $160 per vote. He ranks close to Ross Perot and Michael Huffington among wealthy men willing to spare no expense for their political ambitions...
...Sunday he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that those sly Dems were planning on pulling the McCain lever just so they could stack the deck in favor of their candidate in the general election. Although this seems to veer dangerously close to the paranoid territory known as Perot-land (hmm... the Reform party doesneed a candidate), some polls do back up Bush's contention that he's the candidate who can beat Bradley/Gore. A Newsweek survey this week found that 52 percent of voters thought that Bush would be more likely to defeat the Democratic party's candidate...
Simpson faulted Republicans for permitting President Clinton to win the White House in 1992 because some split the Republican vote by supporting another presidential hopeful, Ross Perot...
According to the Globe, "Harvard officials and other sources yesterday confirmed the university's interest in a proposal to keep 'the Harvard plan' nonprofit through a money-raising deal involving major Boston teaching hospitals, the data processing company Perot Systems, and other investors... Investors are being asked to lend money in exchange for IOUs called 'surplus notes,' or surplus bonds...
...Globe reported that Harvard officials--as well as representatives from another possible investor, Perot Systems--met with state-hired investment bankers at a law firm in Boston Saturday...