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...convenient vehicle for an independent candidacy, but none of the participants wants to be seen as a Perot puppet. Still, the Lamm group would like to run its own candidate and, failing that, nudge those in the race toward their positions. "There is the danger of creating a spoiler and ending up with a worse result,'' frets Tsongas. The remarkable thing, perhaps, is that such a group of professional contrarians could agree on anything at all. --With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington
Whatever role he finally plays--spoiler or kingmaker or king--Buchanan has already remodeled the tone and the substance of the G.O.P. race. Despite Census Bureau figures and polls that show flat wages are a central concern of most Americans, Buchanan is the only G.O.P. candidate to address the issue directly and with gusto. The left-wing Nation magazine calls Buchanan "the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race." The others seem to have found no way to talk about income inequality without offending their affluent base of supporters and campaign contributors. While Buchanan strikes a populist...
Though radically different in ideology, Perot and Jackson both yearn to advance an ambitious agenda, even if that means playing the spoiler. Each is a failed presidential candidate with no realistic chance to win the White House, but each muses about running under the right circumstances. For Jackson, those include a weakened President who continues to disappoint his party's left wing. For Perot, the lure would be the G.O.P.'s failure to keep its promise of revolutionary reform...
...Harvey Weinstein, whose Miramax Films Katzenberg bought for Disney last year? "It would be wrong to speculate about that stuff, knowing they still have many years to go under the Disney contract." Will he raid Disney for animation talent? "I'm not in this to be a spoiler...
...been emboldened to take a harder line in the health-care debate and appear to have weakened Clinton's insistence on employer mandates to guarantee universal coverage. Instead, any mandate is likely to be voluntary at first. And Senate minority leader Bob Dole in particular has emerged as a spoiler, with his call for minimal health legislation this year...