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This is what happens in the best-case scenario for the Ross Perot campaign, and as he leads several national polls (including in pivotal states like California and Texas), the idea of a half-businessman, half-general, never-held-public-office-before president seems not so farfetched...
...THERE'S ONE THING that H. Ross Perot is, he's master salesman. From his days as a sales prodigy at IBM to his legendary sale of a school reform plan to the Texas legislature, Perot has built his reputation on using a combination of pressure, money and "commonsense" persuasion to make the hard sell...
...short, Ross Perot is no outsider. In fact, he's the consummate insider--a guy with the connections, money and savvy to play the game. Indeed, he has often won at the political game, but if you believe his pitch, he has never even been a player...
...Quayle's attempt to energize conservatives by attacking Murphy Brown shows just how different the 1992 campaign has already become. Ross Perot's pending entrance in the race -- and the possibility that he might attract between a quarter and a third or more of the vote this fall -- has George Bush and Bill Clinton paying unusually heavy tribute to their parties' core constituents. Instead of moving their candidates toward the center to win, both camps are seriously mulling over how to win the White House with just the thinnest plurality of voters. Call it the 34% solution...
...CAMPAIGN, NOR WAS HE EVEN ON THE ballots. But thanks to voters in the Oregon and Washington primaries, Ross Perot pulled off another neat political trick that keeps him marching toward the White House without moving from his chair. In Oregon, exit polls showed that 13% of the Democrats and 15% of the Republicans took the extra trouble to write in his name. In Washington, where write-ins do not have to be certified until a week after the election, officials in tiny San Juan County were quickly able to come up with a tally that showed Perot beating both...