From: cad002@dunix.drake.edu (Christopher Drake)
Subject: Some Helpful Hints for Perot!
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:52:48 GMT

Friends,
We need to get a quick message through to Mr. Perot.  Hopefully somebody
out there can do this task for me.  I'll express my message below.

After the debate last night, I had to drive back from my home in
Owatonna, Minnesota to Des Moines Ia where I go to school at Drake
University.  It was about 11:00 when I left and it takes roughly 3 hours
to get there.  On the way back i listened to all of the call in shows on
the AM talk radios.  It was almost phenomenal, people were asked to call
in and rate their choices 1,2,3.  Mr. Perot came in 1st on at least 90%
of the calls, and on the rest he probably came in 3rd only twice.  Now I
feel the\at the press is distorting his lead in the polls.  Come on, he
had to have more than a 9% approval going into the debate.  After his
first show aired last Tueday, i talked with some people who said they
were formerly undecided and because of that show are going to vote for
Mr. Perot.  It is unrealistic to believe that first night did not have
more of an increase than polled. 

Anyways, while driving home i was surprised how bad the talk shows were
cutting people off, especially if they were for Perot, and influening
their own biases to rewrite what took place in the debate.  And this
morning with all of the reports coming in about him just being a comical
relief.  Come on, Perot's best weapon is his tongue n' cheek way of
presenting the facts.  My poli Sci professor damn near dismissed Perot
this morning, what's the deal.  They are so afraid of the political
temors from 3rd parties causing the old system they grew up on to fall
apart.  When he talked of the upcoming Vice Presidential debate, he
said "It will be a good chance for Gore and Quayle to go one on one."
To which a student raised his hand, "what about Perot's candidate?"
"Oh, yeah, he'll be there too."  Huh?  What a Prof...ehh?

My message that needs sending to Perot, is this:  The biggest complaint
coming from people is that he'll never be able to handle the gridlock of
Congress once Pres.  We need to tell him to express explicitly his idea
of the electronic town hall.  People need to know he is going to do that
to insure that Congress is also getting the message of the American
people.  I suriously doubt that Congress will vote against anything that
electronically tells them what their constituents feel needs to be done.
Even as professionalism has infiltrated the Presidency it also has
invaded Congress as Alan Ehrenhalt describes in 'The United States
Ambition'.  they make up issues to conform to their beliefs for each set
of constituents, with no hope of ever actually solvong the issues once
they obtain office or even being capable of doing things.  This is a
result of Congressional professionalism, where the goal is just to get
in office.  With Perot's electronic town hall, this won't happen, if it
does, bye bye Senator or Congressman so-and-so.

He needs to get his point of ELECTRONIC TOWN HALL through to all people.

Another point, some people are actually afraid to say they are voting
for Perot, due to all the media and political backlashing, we need to
find a way to regroup our people.  Get them out of hiding and bring him
up in the polls, maybe a rally or two?  Something at least should be
done.

PEROT IN 92!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christopher A. Drake
Drake University
Des Moines IA
CAD002@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU

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