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...really think it will be a three-man race all the way, or will one candidate fade...
Nothing illustrated this more than billionaire Ross Perot's surprise departurefrom the race yesterday, which turned theunconventional three-man race into a traditionalhead-to-head battle...
...easier for Bush to manage his coalition of right-wingers and yuppie moderates. In 1988, after running to the right in the primaries, Bush reached out to independents in the fall with the "kinder and gentler" clean-air and child-care initiatives, and he won easily. But in a three-man race, such overtures may be unnecessary, even unwise. Conservative Republicans have never really liked or trusted Bush, and they could bolt to Perot if the President starts sounding moderate again...
...Bush headquarters are, if anything, heading in the other direction. "You really have to go after the pro-choice vote in a two-man race," said a senior adviser to the Bush campaign, "but you need less of it in a three-man race...
...course, the election isn't until November, by which time the billionaire businessman may have failed miserably at presidential politics. In the meantime, most of the base tending taking place now is good politics for either a two-man or a three-man race. As a Bush official put it last week, "The question is, Are we fleet enough, are we agile enough to drop back into a two-man strategy if Perot proves to be a flash in the pan?" In that event, the White House will go to the party that does the best job of lurching back...