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...WHAT HAS to be one of the greatest political sleights of hand since Ronald Reagan promised to decrease taxes, increase spending, balance the budget all at the same time, the television evangelist Pat Robertson has declared that he is going to run for President. The good Reverend won't actually throw his frock into the political arena unless three million people indicate their support for him in the next year. Robertson has deftly avoided appearing too political while at the same time creating the beginnings of a populist "Draft Robertson" campaign...
...Reverend Robertson says that God speaks to him. So if there aren't three million good Christians out there willing to support America's most popular television evangelist, then the state of religion is in pretty sad shape. But, as in the case of the Cabots and the Lowells, it's likely that those people who sign Robertson's presidential petition do so because they appreciate that he, not He, talks to them. Robertson may talk to God but he understands that it is the support of us mortals, whether it be measured in Nielsen ratings or votes, that really...
...strong supporter of Walter Mondale's presidential campaign, Larry Tisch has a keen interest in politics and an eclectic taste in politicians. He has recently been host at breakfasts for Representative Charles Rangel, a liberal Democrat from Harlem, and the Rev. Pat Robertson, the conservative preacher and presidential candidate. Says Richard Ravitch, chairman of New York City's Bowery Savings Bank and former head of New York's metropolitan transportation authority: "Most people who seek the White House seek his advice and ultimately his support." Tisch was instrumental in helping preserve the deductibility of state and local income taxes...
Much of that money has gone for television commercials in a kind of surrogate Battle of the Long-Distance Pitchmen. AT&T employed Actor Cliff Robertson, who had earned a reputation for scrupulous honesty by blowing the whistle on a 1977 Hollywood embezzlement scandal, for a reported salary of $2 million a year. MCI riposted with Burt Lancaster and Comic Joan Rivers. Sprint was represented for a time by Psychologist Joyce Brothers. The campaign has also extended beyond the airwaves to local shopping malls and amusement parks, where the rival long-distance suppliers have even hired acrobats and clowns...
Bush was the first choice of 40% of the voters who expressed a preference in exit polls; his estimate that he emerged with about 50% of the delegates seems plausible. But to achieve those results the Vice President had to send in top operatives and spend $700,000. Robertson, who claims to have spent only $65,000, was the only contender given an unfavorable rating in the exit polls; but the Wall Street Journal/NBC News tally gave him about as many delegates as Kemp, around 10%. Kemp spent $250,000 trying to establish himself as the prime challenger to Bush...