Perot forced different campaign Final Edition

Before the votes were counted, [Ross Perot] supporters around the nation seemed upbeat, almost giddy. Neither Dallas headquarters, where the movement began last spring, nor Perot`s offices in the widely despised nation`s capital, Washington, D.C., exuded the gloom typical of losing campaigns. In a b...

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Published inCalgary herald
Main Author Barbara Demick and Robert A. Rankin, Knight-Ridder
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Calgary, Alta Postmedia Network Inc 04.11.1992
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Summary:Before the votes were counted, [Ross Perot] supporters around the nation seemed upbeat, almost giddy. Neither Dallas headquarters, where the movement began last spring, nor Perot`s offices in the widely despised nation`s capital, Washington, D.C., exuded the gloom typical of losing campaigns. In a ballroom of the Grand Kempinski Hotel, Perot supporters seemed undaunted by the six huge television screens broadcasting reports that Perot was winning no electoral votes. Perot`s apparent 17 per cent share of the popular vote was the highest by any independent or third-party challenger since 1924, when Progressive Robert LaFollette won 16.6 per cent. Perot far out-distanced 1980 independent John Anderson`s 6.7 per cent and Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace`s 13.5 per cent in 1968.
ISSN:0828-1815