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...nationwide craze over the candidacy of Taxes billionaire H. Ross Perot has spread to the Boston area, but several Harvard students involved in his volunteer network have become disillusioned with the candidate...
Last Saturday was dubbed Perot Petition Day, and volunteers from Massachusetts People for Peort scoured town halls, shopping malls, even dumps to gather signatures to put the business tycoon--who has not yet declared his candidacy--on the ballot. In Cambridge, volunteers hit Harvard , Porter and Central Squares...
...part, Ross Perot, still the wild card among the Big Three, tried to scramble out of the political spotlight with a self-imposed hiatus in his un- campaign. The Texas billionaire, citing "saturation bombing" of his offices by the press, beat a strategic retreat to search for answers to the questions he should dread: his specific stands on the budget deficit, health care, urban policy, international aid and every other complex problem that elicits reams of position papers from presidential hopefuls. This clever move comes at the right time, just when the press is beginning to dig its unforgiving claws...
...control how the public feels about him, which is, in a word, great. A poll in the crucial state of California shows Perot in first place, followed by Bush and then the Arkansas Governor. A national poll by the Times Mirror reveals a close three-way race with the President, who, apparently stung by his initial fumbling reaction to the riots, garnered 33%, barely edging out his two challengers, who captured 30% each...
...exit polls showing that 61% of Democrats believed that he had the honesty and integrity to be President. But the much touted survey was of Democrats only; a far more telling gauge of the public mood -- sobering for both Clinton and Bush -- was polls showing that Texas billionaire Ross Perot is running neck and neck with Bush and ahead of Clinton in California, Texas and New Mexico, which together are worth one-third of the electoral votes required to win the presidency...