PERSPECTIVES ON ROSS PEROT : He Gave the System a Good Shaking : How has the would-be third candidate’s presence in--and now absence from--the race affected our political life? : He Brought In New Voters
This country is going down the tubes, and if we don’t do something to save it, we’re not going to have a country anymore.
I definitely will not be for Bush. I’m not so sure I’ll get that active in the Clinton campaign, but I will get active in the campaigns to not reelect our current Congress and senators.
I’m 38, and I registered hundreds of voters this year who are my age and older who never, ever voted in their lives. Their comment was, “I don’t know if I’ll vote for Perot, but I will definitely vote somehow.” If nothing else, he definitely brought awareness up.
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