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...party's liberal wing has no place to go. So the president is targeting moderate voters, who might defect to Dole or an independent like Ross Perot...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Democrats Unite Under One Big Tent | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Languishing in the polls and turned down by at least three potential vice-presidential candidates, Ross Perot reportedly has settled on political economist and anti-trade author Pat Choate as his running mate. The choice was to be announced in a half-hour infomercial scheduled to air on CBS at 8 p.m. EDT tonight, Reform Party sources tell The Associated Press. Choate is a protectionist and was a strong Perot ally in opposing NAFTA. He co-authored a book with Perot after the Texas billionaire's unsuccessful 1992 presidential run. Choate recently has traveled the country promoting Perot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot Taps Running Mate | 9/10/1996 | See Source »

...party's liberal wing has no place to go. So the president is targeting moderate voters, who might defect to Dole or an independent like Ross Perot...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Democrats Unite Under One Big Tent | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

With money like that, Farrakhan could have taught H. Ross Perot and the late Howard Hughes a thing or two about eccentricity. He shares Perot's elephantine ego, endless self-righteousness, grandiose political ambitions and deep-seated belief that people are plotting against him. Some of his notions--like the mystical importance of the number 19 and his claim to have taken trips on alien spacecraft--are as cockamamie as Hughes' obsession with germs. As far as I know, neither Perot nor Hughes ever pretended to speak on behalf of God. For Farrakhan and his followers, such miracles are strictly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FOOL AND HIS MONEY | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...Ross Perot has been breaking promises at such a rate that his Reform Party allies are starting to desert him. First one broken: that he'd name a running mate "in just a few days" after his nomination. Perot has been rejected by House members ranging from Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, a liberal, to Linda Smith of Washington State, a conservative. He plans to concentrate on the 65 members of Congress retiring this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEROT BACKLASH | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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