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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21Don't Underestimate Perot
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Suddenly the White House is paying very close attention to
- this fellow PEROT, thanks in part to the alarms sounded by the
- President's son George W. Bush. George W., who lives in Dallas
- and knows a number of ardent Perot supporters, has been worried
- that the Bush-Quayle campaign has been underestimating the
- dangers posed by a Perot candidacy. The President needs 270
- electoral votes to win. In 1988, though, Bush won 120 of his 426
- electoral votes by margins of less than 5% of the total ballots
- cast. According to George W.'s calculations, the Democratic
- candidate can win if Perot siphons off just 5% of the vote in
- 12 key states: Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri,
- California, New Mexico, Michigan, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas,
- Oklahoma and Tennessee. And California and the South are already
- considered Perot's main strongholds among the white,
- middle-class, unhappy voters Bush needs. Sums up a senior
- adviser to the Bush campaign: "Ross Perot doesn't have to do
- well to knock Bush off."
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