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- <title>
- May 25, 1992: Run, Ross, Run
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 25, 1992 Waiting For Perot
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- NATION
- Run, Ross, Run
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- <p>Hotter than a jalapeno, Perot inches closer to a formal candidacy
- </p>
- <p> Braving a sweltering Spring sun, 2,000 Ross Perot zealots
- lugged 90 cardboard boxes stuffed with signed petitions up the
- lawn to the Texas Capitol last week in an effort to put the
- billionaire on the state's presidential ballot. This
- well-scripted media spectacle, festooned with flapping flags,
- balloons and bunting, marked the unofficial unannouncement of
- the uncandidate. In only nine weeks, Perot, who has qualified
- for four other state ballots, collected more than 200,000
- signatures in Texas -- four times what he needed -- and that's
- a chilling omen for Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton.
- "Let's redouble our efforts," urged Perot, "to do for the kids
- what our parents did for us."
- </p>
- <p> As an airplane trailing a perot for president banner
- buzzed overhead, a frenzied crowd, some wearing ROSS FOR BOSS
- T-shirts, cheered the diminutive man who they believe can clean
- up the mess in Washington. "Change means starting over, not just
- remodeling the house," declared Austin housewife Alida Anton.
- Many Americans agree with her that it may be time to hire a new
- contractor: a TIME/cnn poll showed Perot at 33%, Bush at 28% and
- Clinton at 24%.
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