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...two-way maneuvering weren't complicated enough, Ross Perot rejoined the game again last week, making an appearance on NBC's Today show to reaffirm his unhappiness over both Bush's and Clinton's economic plans. With Arizona becoming the 50th state ready to put the Texas billionaire on the November ballot, Perot appeared on the edge of re-entering the race. "I'm trapped," he told his TV audience last Friday. "They won't sell ((TV airtime)) to me unless I declare as a candidate. So I may be the first guy in history that had to declare...
...taking no chances. The day after the convention, Clinton and Gore set out on a six-day bus tour from New York to St. Louis. In this year's volatile politics of frustration and skepticism, maybe the only thing more uncertain than a three-way race is a two-way race. (See related stories beginning on page...
...Coming two-way TV technology will one day make it possible for Perot's town hall to be more than a glorified national talk show. It could be a place where, as in the original New England town hall, people don't just talk but vote. For bombing Baghdad, press 1. For continued sanctions, press 2. For punting until next week's show, press...
Take the parties. They arose in the 19th century as a two-way transmission belt. They gathered grass-roots sentiment and sent it up to the governing elites, who in turn used them to mobilize an otherwise unreachable mass electorate. A century ago you needed party rallies and precinct captains to get the message out. In the age of television and satellites...
...electronic town meetings. That night, before a television audience Murphy Brown would die for, he lays out the nation's precarious economic situation and the stark choices the U.S. confronts. Even before his presentation is over, the returns begin to pour in -- by telephone, fax, computer modem, videophone and two-way interactive cable TV. By morning, the will of the American people is clear: they have decided to cut back on Social Security payments, further slash military spending and raise their own taxes...