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Dole's satisfaction at the election results came in the face of three new national surveys showing Clinton with double-digit leads in head-to-head matchups. They also showed Dole would suffer if Ross Perot mounted another independent candidacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Super Tuesday' Brings Dole Near Nomination | 3/13/1996 | See Source »

...Poll shows President Clinton with a nine percentage point lead over Dole. The survey of 826 registered voters has Clinton leading Dole 49 percent to 40, a slight drop from a February poll showing Clinton with a 52 to 39 percent lead. These figures would change significantly if Ross Perot enters the fray, tipping the balance even further in Clinton's favor. In that race, Clinton gets 46 percent, Dole 33 percent, and Perot 14 percent. The good news for Dole? A Dole-Colin Powell ticket leads 47 percent to Clinton-Gore's 45 percent. Voters also perceive Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevorkian Found Not Guilty | 3/8/1996 | See Source »

...brother calls "General MacArthur," is not shy about taking credit for battlefield victories. "I had a conservative--Gramm--in the race I had to take out first," she says, making the same karate-chop gestures as her brother. "Then I had to strip Forbes of any pro-life and Perot voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: SISTERS-IN-ARMS | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...With their attention turned from Washington to Wall Street, will the disenchanted blue-collar voters drift back to the Democrats, who support free trade but will promise to do a better job of protecting them from its sharp edges? And there's a natural home for them in Ross Perot's anti-NAFTA Reform Party, if it decides to run its own candidate for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE POPULIST BLOWUP | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...Mandarins so unpopular? Partly because there's a sense among everybody else that they haven't earned what they have. The country is willing to celebrate rich entrepreneurs like Ross Perot and Bill Gates, but it isn't willing to accept that, say, someone's having won a Rhodes Scholarship is an achievement on the same scale, meriting the same deference. An equal difficulty for the Mandarins, but more correctable, is that they like to impose rules on the rest of the country that they don't have to play by. The best example is the Vietnam War, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: AMERICA'S NEW CLASS SYSTEM | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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