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...Poor Ross Perot. Just when he thought he had mainstreamed his campaign by accepting federal funding, the Commission on Presidential Debates shut him out of this year's political faceoffs. The decision came earlier this week, as the bipartisan committee declared that Perot did not have a "realistic" chance of being elected president. Clinton staffers reacted with dismay even as the Dole campaign was quite pleased. Both major parties assumed that a Perot appearance would have focused much more criticism on the Republican nominee than on the president...
...Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.); Meredith E. Bagby '95, an advisor to presidential candidate H. Ross Perot; David Wilhelm, former chair of the Democratic National Committee; and Susan Weld, the wife of Gov. William F. Weld '66, are among speakers scheduled...
Over a six-month period beginning in September 1995, Ross Perot held a series of private meetings with fellow supporters of the third-party movement, ostensibly seeking their advice on whether and how to run again for President. Consistently, the group, which included former Connecticut Governor and Senator Lowell Weicker and New York businessman Thomas Galisano, warned Perot that if he ran again, he could no longer be a one-man band. This time, the advisers said, he had to bring national-level politicians into the fold. He had to listen to their policy prescriptions and incorporate their ideas into...
...taxpayer funding. Lamm and his supporters are already vying for the money, which will amount to several million dollars. More immediately, Perot has helped put two issues squarely at the center of the nation's agenda: campaign-finance reform and the need to overhaul Medicare and Social Security. "If Ross Perot had only known what to do with the remnants of a losing presidential campaign," says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, "he would be one of the most powerful men of this time." Because he did not, the future of a third party remains as murky...
...first time ever, a Democratic President explicitly and clearly rejected deficit spending and embraced a balanced budget--a goal endorsed by some 80% of Americans. By doing this, the President began the process of reconnecting himself with the American people, in particular the 19% that had supported Ross Perot...