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...tell that to August A. "Gus" Toda, the secretary of the Massachusetts United We Stand organization. United We Stand is the nationwide Perot alliance formed after Perot dropped from consideration in July and before he reentered the race in October...
...betcha it's populist," Toda declares. "Last spring, I was astounded at the wide political spectrum of the people involved. We had people from the Jerry Brown campaign working side by side with people who were working for Patrick Buchanan," he says. Toda claims to have 10,000 active volunteers in Massachusetts...
...constant refrain of Perot organizers like Toda is that Perot has brought in Americans never before involved in the political system. Tethered by concerns about the national debt and energized by Perot's personal style and direct appeals, a broad range of people feel for the first time that they can effect change, the organizers say. And his ability to spark this feeling is what makes him a populist, they insist...
...There has been no person better at communicating with ordinary people," Toda says. "He talks a language people understand. He has a real interest in what people say and think and do. We haven't seen this kind of man in government in a long time. Bush sounds like a Yalie and Clinton sounds like someone who went Oxford. George Bush doesn't even understand people...
...have people in their 40s who've never voted," Toda adds. "I never have. [Politicians] have been bums since I was an adult...