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Perot releases new book
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Ross Perot says he could relaunch his maverick independent presidential campaign if the political parties of President George Bush and Bill Clinton thumb their nose at U.S. citizens.
Wrestling some of the spotlight from a second political convention and pushing his new book, which is now on sale, Perot said that the chance of his return was slim.
It would occur only after lengthy discussions with supporters, he said in an interview.
If the parties ignore the U.S. citizens, then the volunteers from all 50 states could meet to try to cajole him back in, Perot said. He later told CBS News it was a one-in-a-thousand possibility.
His remarks drew some attention from the Republican convention, though considerably less than his withdrawal from the campaign did on the final day of the Democratic convention last month.
"It's a whole lot more fun to work on education reform when your goal in life is not to be education commissioner," Perot said. "You just work on it because you believe in it. That's where I am right now."
As the Republican National Convention moved toward its nomination of Bush in Houston, Perot appeared on national television twice on Wednesday to drum up interest in his issues book.
Perot's book outlines a foreign policy centered on trade and a series of tax hikes and spending cuts Perot should help to reduce the budget deficit.
Proceeds from the $4.99 paperback will go to United We Stand, the political group formed by Perot supporters that is expected to evolve into a nonprofit organization after the election. Perot said he was happier wood.
Perot said he was happier working on the issues outside a campaign.
Perot said it was coincidence that the book was being released the day Bush accepted the GOP nomination. When he left the race, Perot had already scheduled a TV appearance, complete with color charts, to discuss the economic plan contained in the book.
Tour time
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
Bill Towns, operations supervisor at the Kansas Union, shows what can be seen from the fifth floor balcony during a tour of the Union. The tours were given Wednesday and Thursday for anyone interested.
Battle for states begins
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — It's simple arithmetic now: Lock up 270 electoral votes and win the White House. For President Bush, the counting begins with an immediate dash to the South in a drive to hold the GOP's traditional political base.
Then worry about the vote-rich battleground states: Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania — and also California, a Republican disaster zone for the moment. Democrat Bill Clinton has been running ahead in each of the economically battered states. Bush has 70 days in a turbulent political year to catch up.
Typically the numbers favor the Republicans. Yet 1992 is unpredictable. Anxious voters, resentful of incumbents, clamor for change.
The Reagan Democrats who gave their votes to Ronald Reagan and George Bush are looking homeward, worried about their jobs and the economy's slide under Republican rule. Disgruntled voters who turned to Ross Perot are searching for a place to go.
The need for Bush to pay homage to the South is obvious. Southern voters are familiar with the Democrats' border-state ticket of Clinton and Gore and less likely to reject them as unacceptable liberals in the mold of McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis.
Bush has been trailing in the polls anywhere from 17 to 25 points, though no one expects that to last.
Despite the strange twist of the political year, Robert Teeter, who heads the Bush campaign and is a polling expert himself, said. "This is not an atypical presidential election, electorally."
"Our base has been across the Mountain states and in the South and in the Westwest, and if you look at our schedule for the next week or two, you will see us doing that. And secondly you go right back to where the big contested estates are: on the West Coast and in the Midwest."
Democrats see California, with 54 electoral votes, and New York, with 33, as the bookends of their electoral strategy, and Clinton is making a run at Texas, where Perot remains on the ballot and could drain votes from Bush. Clinton's forces concede the convention has been a boost for Bush.
Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg said, "They've run a thoroughly disciplined, extreme Christian right convention, and I expect that is going to get them part of their base back and have some appeal in the South. But it's not going to carry. It doesn't have the legs to deal with the hard issues in this election."
Moreover, Greenberg said, the caustic tone of Pat Buchman, Jerry Falwell and other speakers about abortion, homosexuality and other family value issues could cost Bush support among younger, independent voters.
Bush's convention speech Thursday was planned as the first big step in the his political comeback, boosted by displays of party unity and the portrayal of Bush as father of the party and the U.S. family.
Teter said, "It's one of the times in the course of a campaign that the voters and the networks' viewers get a chance to see and hear the parties unfilled. And I think it's very important thing that goes on in the election process."
By raising questions about Clinton's past and allowing Bush to offer his vision of the future, the whole convention has been framed to highlight a single question for voters; Teeter said, "Which of these two men do they most trust to go sit in the Oval Office and make value judgments for them?"
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