CBS Evening News - 1992-08-21

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[0:02] The gloves are off as the polls tighten

[0:04] up and the campaign moves into high

[0:06] gear. In Bosnia, the Serbians pound

[0:09] Sarajevo and the UN peacekeepers. And

[0:12] new hope from an old remedy means good

[0:14] news for heart patients.

[0:17] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:26] Good evening, everybody. I'm Paula Zahn

[0:27] sitting in tonight for Dan Rather.

[0:29] Campaign '92 got underway for real

[0:31] today. Riding a surge in the polls after

[0:33] the Republican convention, President

[0:35] Bush hit the campaign trail hard

[0:37] blasting Bill Clinton's economic

[0:39] proposals. Clinton fired back charging

[0:42] the president is making promises he

[0:44] can't keep. Susan Spencer begins our

[0:46] report.

[0:48] His convention behind him, Mr. Bush

[0:50] seemed thrilled today to no longer have

[0:52] to pretend that he's not on the attack.

[0:54] In Mississippi, one of the most

[0:56] Republican states in the South, he

[0:58] enthusiastically repeated his new

[1:00] promise of a tax cut if there are

[1:02] spending cuts. He provides no specifics

[1:05] but still claims his plan has it all

[1:07] over what he now cheeringly calls Elvis

[1:09] economics. Creating jobs is the number

[1:12] one issue and my opponent has laid out

[1:14] his plan. It is clear, present and

[1:18] dangerous. It starts Here's the way it

[1:20] starts out. 220 billion in new what he

[1:24] calls investment and when he says

[1:26] investment, watch out for your wallet.

[1:29] There were a healthy number of Clinton

[1:30] Gore signs in the crowd today reflecting

[1:32] the latest CBS News New York Times poll

[1:35] which now shows this race essentially a

[1:37] dead heat. Among those likely to vote,

[1:40] 46% picked the president, 48% Governor

[1:43] Clinton. The poll was done last night in

[1:46] part after Mr. Bush addressed the

[1:48] convention.

[1:49] That speech provided his blueprint for

[1:51] winning. Stress values, promise tax

[1:53] cuts, tie the Democrats to the hated

[1:55] Congress and slam Clinton hard. The

[1:58] governor's hesitant support of the Gulf

[2:00] War makes an easy target. What about the

[2:02] leader of the Arkansas National Guard?

[2:06] The man who The man who hopes to be

[2:09] commander-in-chief.

[2:10] Well, I bit the bullet

[2:12] and he bit his nails. Here in the South

[2:15] where the Democrats think their

[2:16] all-Southern ticket has a chance, the

[2:18] president will try to capitalize on

[2:19] Desert Storm and Clinton's draft record.

[2:22] How will it all play? I think that this

[2:24] is a contentious race. I think it's

[2:26] open. I think it depends on events that

[2:28] have not yet get happened, decisions

[2:30] that have not yet been made. I think

[2:31] both candidates move themselves forward

[2:33] significantly in their convention

[2:35] periods. But as Governor Clinton is

[2:37] probably painfully aware by now, gains

[2:39] made after a convention don't

[2:41] necessarily last. The GOP festival may

[2:43] have started a trend in Mr. Bush's

[2:45] direction. The trick for him is to keep

[2:47] it going now that the campaign has begun

[2:50] at long last. Susan Spencer, CBS News,

[2:53] Gulfport, Mississippi.

[2:56] Last night in Houston, the subject was

[2:58] Bill Clinton. Today in Detroit, Clinton

[3:00] changed the subject, namely George

[3:02] Bush's prescriptions for the economy.

[3:05] Last night

[3:06] we heard that same candidate

[3:09] desperate for re-election, promised

[3:11] another short-term capital gains cut for

[3:13] the wealthy

[3:14] the fool's gold of an across-the-board

[3:16] tax cut in the face of a $400 billion

[3:20] deficit

[3:21] and a balanced budget amendment with no

[3:24] serious specific proposals to balance

[3:27] the budget.

[3:28] These promises, too, are false

[3:31] and they, too, will betray us if we

[3:33] follow them.

[3:35] In the words of the man who started all

[3:37] this

[3:38] there they go again. Clinton's own

[3:40] economic plan, a mixture of deficit

[3:42] reduction, tax increases for the

[3:44] wealthy, a tax cut for the middle class,

[3:46] investments in education, health care

[3:48] and welfare reform got a warm response

[3:51] from the audience of business people but

[3:53] some thought it smacked of more

[3:54] Democratic tax and spend. The fact is I

[3:57] heard it from President Carter. I heard

[4:00] it from Fritz Mondale and I and I heard

[4:02] it from Dukakis. The same old play.

[4:05] Clinton claims he's neither surprised

[4:06] nor concerned that after the four-day

[4:08] beating he took from the Republicans in

[4:10] Houston, his margin in the polls over

[4:12] George Bush is fast disappearing.

[4:15] People, you know, can't imagine that the

[4:16] president could stand up there and just

[4:17] say things that aren't so. So, he

[4:19] sounded good. He scared the American

[4:20] people. You all had expected that bubble

[4:22] would burst.

[4:23] >> I told everybody when they find out that

[4:25] that, you know, half of what he said

[4:27] last night just wasn't so, I think it'll

[4:29] make a big difference. I think it'll

[4:31] settle back down. Still going to be a

[4:32] close race. Oh, yeah. I always thought

[4:33] it would be because he is a great

[4:36] fearmonger. That's great politics.

[4:38] That's what they're good at.

[4:40] That's what they know to do.

[4:41] All this stuff, we're Americans. If

[4:43] you're not with us, you're not

[4:44] Americans, you know. All that kind of

[4:46] stuff. That's what they're good at.

[4:47] Tonight, Clinton began trying to restore

[4:49] his image joining his wife and the Gores

[4:52] for yet another bus trip. This one from

[4:54] Cleveland along the Great Lakes, a part

[4:56] of the country both parties believe is

[4:58] crucial to victory in November. Richard

[5:00] Threlkeld, CBS News, Detroit.

[5:03] And joining us now just back from the

[5:04] convention in Houston is Joe Klein,

[5:06] senior editor of Newsweek and our CBS

[5:08] News political consultant. Welcome. Good

[5:10] to be back. How do you assess the

[5:12] president's speech last night? Well,

[5:13] obviously it was a high-energy jolt for

[5:16] George Bush and the Republican party. A

[5:19] lot of sugar content. That gives you a

[5:20] lot of energy. The question about the

[5:22] speech is the long-term nutritional

[5:24] value. How much protein was there? And

[5:27] when you when you look at the details of

[5:28] it, there weren't very many details in

[5:30] what he'd do about the economy which

[5:32] most voters say is the most important

[5:34] issue this year. And so, he's going to

[5:36] have to become a lot more specific if

[5:39] there are specifics to be had from his

[5:40] point of view. Governor Bill Clinton

[5:42] saying what the president said it just

[5:44] isn't so. Is half of what he said not

[5:46] true? Well, I think the governor was

[5:48] exaggerating a bit but there were two

[5:50] major untruths that the president

[5:53] floated last night and that the

[5:54] Republicans were using all week. One is

[5:56] that Bill Clinton raised taxes 128

[5:58] times. According to the to the Wall

[6:00] Street Journal, it wasn't nearly that

[6:01] and he lowered taxes almost as many

[6:03] times as he raised it. The other is that

[6:05] Clinton's tax

[6:07] uh proposed tax increase is the largest

[6:08] in history. That's not true, either.

[6:10] Clinton has proposed 150 billion in new

[6:13] taxes and about 100 uh 106 billion in

[6:15] tax cuts. The largest tax increase in

[6:18] history was Ronald Reagan's in 1982. The

[6:21] second largest was George Bush's in

[6:22] 1990. But it strikes me that the

[6:25] governor doesn't have that much of an

[6:26] easy sell for his own national economic

[6:28] plan.

[6:29] >> Well, it's been a it's been a tough sell

[6:30] for Democrats for 25 years. He's

[6:32] proposing more spending. People are very

[6:34] skeptical about the idea of more

[6:36] spending. Bill Clinton himself said uh

[6:38] last summer that the biggest job a

[6:40] Democrat has is is to convince people

[6:42] he's not going to take their money and

[6:43] give it to a bunch of bureaucrats who

[6:44] are going to spend it wrong. Clinton

[6:46] still has to make that case.

[6:48] We heard the president touch briefly on

[6:50] the deficit last night. Are we going to

[6:52] hear either candidate give us real

[6:54] specifics on what can be done to bring

[6:56] down the deficit? Not to put too fine a

[6:59] point on it but no.

[7:01] Uh both these guys want want people to

[7:03] like them, want people to vote for them.

[7:05] And the truth is about the deficit that

[7:07] it involves in a a great deal of pain.

[7:09] Ross Perot found that out and that was

[7:11] one of the reasons why he left the race.

[7:12] He was the guy who said he could uh

[7:14] close the deficit without breaking a

[7:15] sweat. Uh but it's going to take higher

[7:17] taxes, it's going to take lower

[7:19] spending, it's going to take cuts in,

[7:21] you know, beloved entitlements like

[7:22] Social Security and Medicare. I don't

[7:24] think either of these guys are willing

[7:26] to propose that. The Democrats all along

[7:28] have been trying to lower expectations

[7:29] saying these polls that we're reading

[7:31] are simply soufflé. What do we make of

[7:34] the polls between now and the election?

[7:36] The polls today showing that President

[7:38] Bush is really squeezing in on Governor

[7:40] Clinton's lead. Well, what we have is an

[7:42] unpopular incumbent and a governor of a

[7:44] small state that most people don't know.

[7:47] Uh people haven't haven't really decided

[7:49] on this election yet. I think that we

[7:52] have a long way to go. Uh the first

[7:54] debate is going to be very important

[7:56] especially for Bill Clinton. If Clinton

[7:57] can stand next to George Bush and seem a

[8:00] plausible alternative for president,

[8:02] then he may well win this thing. Do you

[8:04] really believe this is all going to ride

[8:06] on the debates? Well, not only on the

[8:07] debate but I think that that is a

[8:09] that's a key moment. What we've had is

[8:12] a a Democratic convention where we saw

[8:14] Bill Clinton in his best light, a

[8:16] Republican convention where we've seen

[8:17] George Bush in his best life light and

[8:19] now they begin to mix it up. And the

[8:21] place where they mix it up most directly

[8:23] is in debate and that's where I think a

[8:25] lot of the decisions will be made. Next

[8:27] week, Jim Baker joins

[8:29] uh President Bush's campaign staff. What

[8:31] can we expect? Any changes? Big changes

[8:33] in store? Well, I ultimately there may

[8:34] be some big changes. The most immediate

[8:36] change is going to be a subtle one.

[8:37] There'll be a lot more discipline to the

[8:39] Bush campaign. The same the same themes

[8:42] and issues will be hit every day uh

[8:44] rather than veering off course left and

[8:46] right as as Bush has for the last couple

[8:48] of months. We're counting on you to

[8:50] check in with you between now and then a

[8:52] lot. Joe Klein, thanks.

[8:54] Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

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[9:03] attack against United Nations

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[10:16] Trying to counter charges of human

[10:18] rights abuses, Iraqi leaders today

[10:20] invited Western diplomats to inspect

[10:22] southern Iraq. That's where Shiite

[10:24] Muslim opponents of Saddam Hussein have

[10:26] taken refuge from attack. The US and his

[10:28] allies are threatening to shoot down

[10:30] Iraqi warplanes in the area.

[10:32] A US Air Force transport plane took off

[10:35] from Kenya today to launch an American

[10:36] airlift of food for Somalia. It's the

[10:39] start of a 145,000 ton relief operation.

[10:43] The UN warned today that one half of

[10:45] Somalia's children may die of starvation

[10:47] from war and drought.

[10:49] The heaviest artillery barrage in a

[10:51] month crashed into Bosnia's capital of

[10:53] Sarajevo today. At least people were

[10:56] killed and there are ominous signs the

[10:58] conflict in what was once Yugoslavia may

[11:00] spin even further out of control. Barry

[11:03] Petersen reports.

[11:10] In Sarajevo, death is commonplace and

[11:12] shelling routine. Now there is a

[11:14] frightening new twist.

[11:19] Artillery with murderous efficiency

[11:21] targeted the base used by Ukrainian

[11:23] troops acting as United Nations

[11:24] peacekeepers.

[11:26] Never before has a UN post come under

[11:28] such direct fire. Their vehicles were

[11:31] blasted apart.

[11:34] Everything, says the Ukrainian

[11:36] commander, everything is destroyed.

[11:39] And it was here yesterday that a

[11:40] Ukrainian soldier was killed by sniper

[11:42] fire. The Serbs will continue with their

[11:45] present tactics in the hope that the

[11:48] United Nations will pack up and go away.

[11:52] British troops going into Yugoslavia may

[11:54] take sophisticated armored vehicles with

[11:56] them, but under the UN mandate their

[11:58] guns must remain silent unless they are

[12:01] directly attacked. And now concern is

[12:03] turning to another former Yugoslav

[12:05] republic, Kosovo. Ethnic Albanians

[12:08] heavily outnumber the Serbs. The fear is

[12:10] this could be the next bloody front.

[12:13] >> I think there's a real chance

[12:16] that this conflict can spread. It's

[12:18] what's terrified us all from the very

[12:19] beginning. It's been nothing but one

[12:22] escalation after another. There was good

[12:24] news from Yugoslavia today. Word that

[12:26] all sides will attend a major peace

[12:28] conference here in London next week, but

[12:30] European leaders are not optimistic.

[12:33] There has been so much talk already, so

[12:35] many promises made, and still the

[12:37] killing has not stopped.

[12:40] Barry Petersen, CBS News, London.

[12:43] It was one year ago today the Soviet

[12:45] coup against Mikhail Gorbachev

[12:46] collapsed. Marking the anniversary,

[12:48] Russian President Boris Yeltsin told

[12:50] Russians to prepare for a hard winter,

[12:52] but he predicted flatly there will not

[12:55] be another coup.

[12:56] Stay with us now for more CBS News

[12:58] including Ross Perot, the people who

[13:00] still might vote for him.

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[14:51] Firefighters in northern California

[14:53] finally managed to bring a huge brush

[14:55] fire in Calaveras County under control

[14:57] today, but an even more ferocious

[14:59] wildfire 200 miles to the north has left

[15:02] the town of Round Mountain in ruins.

[15:05] This new fire has blackened more than

[15:06] 12,000 acres and destroyed 60 buildings.

[15:09] 2,000 people were forced from their

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[15:12] On the political landscape, Ross Perot

[15:14] may still be hoping to play the role of

[15:16] power broker in the presidential

[15:18] election race, but as Bill Lagatuta

[15:20] reports, it's not clear how much power

[15:22] he can wield.

[15:25] Ross Perot still thinks he can be the

[15:27] deciding factor in November. That if he

[15:30] endorses either Bush or Clinton, his

[15:32] fans would vote that way, too. The only

[15:34] leverage they have is their organization

[15:36] and their large numbers. They vote.

[15:39] That presumes that Perot still commands

[15:41] a huge army of supporters and that the

[15:44] millions whose hearts he broke when he

[15:46] quit are still listening to him.

[15:48] But as late as last week, our polls

[15:50] showed nine out of 10 Perot supporters

[15:53] have already gone elsewhere, most to

[15:55] Clinton.

[15:58] Typical among them is Ken Lyon who

[16:00] worked for Perot back in the glory days

[16:02] of rallies and petition signings.

[16:06] Now he's not interested in anything

[16:08] Perot has to say anymore. I think I'm in

[16:11] the majority of uh he made a fool of us

[16:13] once and he's not going to do it again.

[16:15] That does leave one in 10 Perot

[16:17] supporters still available and with

[16:19] Perot likely on the ballot in all 50

[16:21] states, many will vote for him.

[16:24] >> I'm not talking two or three or four

[16:26] percent of the country. So he does still

[16:27] have some leverage. I will be pleased to

[16:30] vote for Ross Perot and so will many,

[16:31] many of my friends and neighbors. Perot

[16:33] volunteers, united we stand.

[16:35] >> But these are the zealots, the true

[16:37] believers who still man the telephones

[16:39] in the scaled-down Perot storefronts.

[16:42] Even among them there is division when

[16:44] it comes to a possible Perot

[16:46] endorsement.

[16:47] >> We're not going to listen to

[16:48] the party line or to what Ross Perot

[16:51] says and just blindly follow. We'll make

[16:53] up our own minds and and decide. Since

[16:56] Perot is down to only a few million

[16:58] supporters, the best chance he has of

[17:00] being a spoiler is if the Bush-Clinton

[17:02] race is razor close. Then what's left of

[17:06] Perot's army could make a difference.

[17:09] Bill Lagatuta, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[17:12] Coming up next, the bloodsucking leech

[17:14] and its remarkable effect on heart

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[18:54] It's another NFL preseason collision.

[18:57] Warren Moon and the Houston Oilers take

[18:59] on the New Orleans Saints Saturday on

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[19:06] It sounds like something from the dark

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[19:13] medicine has rediscovered the leech, as

[19:16] health correspondent Edie Magnus

[19:17] reports.

[19:20] There is new hope for heart patients

[19:22] like Len Johnson from a most unlikely

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[19:57] Studies are ongoing at eight major

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[20:31] Johnson's once clogged arteries is

[20:33] amazing. The blood clot is totally

[20:36] dissolved in this portion of the artery.

[20:38] I'm feeling excellent. I'm back to work

[20:41] full-time.

[20:42] It all represents a dramatic resurgence

[20:44] of scientific interest in this creepy

[20:46] crawler. Used for somewhat primitive

[20:49] purposes throughout the centuries, live

[20:51] leeches are now helping surgeons perform

[20:53] sophisticated operations to reattach a

[20:56] severed finger or limb. Placed right on

[20:58] a wound to suck out blood, leeches can

[21:01] keep circulation going through damaged

[21:03] tissues. Well, at first I was kind of

[21:05] scared, but I got used to the idea.

[21:08] Jeff Hall's fingers were crushed in a

[21:10] steel plant accident. He nearly lost two

[21:13] of them until his doctor reached for a

[21:15] leech. They give us a little bit

[21:18] something to fall back on when we're

[21:19] unable to get the veins to work.

[21:21] Investigators recently discovered yet

[21:23] another substance in leech saliva which

[21:25] appears to slow the growth of tumors in

[21:27] mice. That's all very preliminary, but

[21:30] intriguing nonetheless. After 3,000

[21:32] years, science has yet to uncover all

[21:34] the secrets of nature's slimy slug. Edie

[21:38] Magnus, CBS News, New York.

[21:52] Drawn from the facts.

[21:54] There's a way to maintain regularity

[21:57] without drugs.

[22:00] It starts here. A high-fiber diet which

[22:03] can include Kellogg's All-Bran.

[22:05] May give you the fiber you need for

[22:07] drug-free regularity.

[22:10] See the recipe on the box for another

[22:11] way to enjoy Kellogg's All-Bran.

[22:14] All-Bran muffins. All that fiber. All

[22:17] that great taste.

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[22:50] Talking now with Margo who says that she

[22:51] will not freeze with Glad Lock zipper

[22:53] bags.

[22:53] >> No, I like my zipper bags.

[22:55] >> Well, we sent a remote crew out to your

[22:56] house, Margo, where your husband, Jerry,

[22:59] is about to replace the new throw

[23:00] pillows in your lovely sofa with either

[23:02] your bag full of chili or the Glad Lock

[23:04] bag full of chili. Of course, only Glad

[23:06] Lock has the yellow and blue make green

[23:07] seal, so you know it's closed. Your bag

[23:09] doesn't have a green seal. Use the Glad

[23:11] Lock bag, Jerry.

[23:12] >> It's the Glad Lock bag. Listen, Margo, I

[23:13] can't hear what she's saying.

[23:14] >> Use the Glad Lock No, wait. Be careful.

[23:15] I only hear When it really counts, only

[23:17] Glad Lock has the yellow and blue make

[23:18] green seal. This Athlete's Foot fungus

[23:21] grows beneath the surface of your skin.

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[23:35] If you're under a physician's care for

[23:37] high blood pressure, ulcers, or asthma,

[23:39] then your choice of a non-prescription

[23:41] pain reliever is especially important.

[23:43] For millions of people like you, the one

[23:45] doctors recommend most is Tylenol.

[23:53] President Bush

[24:07] We apologize for those technical

[24:09] problems we're having right now. We're

[24:10] trying to queue up a tape. What we're

[24:12] talking about is President Bush aimed

[24:13] his acceptance speech last night right

[24:16] at the heart of middle America. So, we

[24:18] tested the response at a place that's

[24:19] regarded as the heart of the heartland.

[24:22] John Blackstone has that story in

[24:24] tonight's Eye on America.

[24:31] Apparently, we don't have that report

[24:33] ready to go yet, so we're going to move

[24:34] on to another story now.

[24:37] Actually, I think we're going to take a

[24:38] a short break. We're going to be right

[24:40] back.

[25:06] Tulsa, Oklahoma, population 367,000.

[25:10] It's sort of in the South, sort of in

[25:11] the Midwest. By age and race, the mix of

[25:14] people here almost exactly reflects the

[25:16] nation.

[25:17] It's the kind of town market researchers

[25:19] love to use to test new products.

[25:23] The question is who do you trust to make

[25:27] change work for you?

[25:29] The product last night was the

[25:30] presidency.

[25:32] As a market researcher might ask the

[25:34] question, how did it take in Tulsa?

[25:37] Yes, it's wonderful to lead the world,

[25:39] but I'm worried about the United States

[25:41] of America right today.

[25:43] Today. I'm worried about my children's

[25:45] future and my new grandbabies future.

[25:48] If these Tulsans are typical, a lot of

[25:50] Americans watched last night not to have

[25:52] their minds changed, but to confirm what

[25:54] they already believe.

[25:57] It's hard to criticize Bush on foreign

[25:59] policy if you look at all the things

[26:00] he's accomplished. What was proof of

[26:03] greatness to a loyal Republican sounded

[26:05] like platitudes to a loyal Democrat.

[26:07] God, motherhood, and apple pie went

[26:09] across great, but there wasn't much

[26:11] substance on how we're going to get the

[26:13] economy turned around. Businessman and

[26:15] house builder Mike Stripling is an

[26:16] upbeat Bush supporter. This is the

[26:18] Republican way of doing things.

[26:21] You know, we try to keep the federal

[26:23] government out of our business, you

[26:24] know. He likes the president's emphasis

[26:26] on foreign affairs.

[26:28] What I'm into affordable housing, you

[26:30] know, I don't want to follow that money

[26:31] to Israel while they build them new

[26:33] houses for the Palestinians. I want to

[26:35] go to Russia, you know, and help rebuild

[26:37] their their housing. But Donna Mitchell

[26:40] heard nothing hopeful. She's just

[26:42] returned home to Tulsa unemployed. I

[26:44] graduated in December and I went out and

[26:46] looked for a job. $6.50 an hour in

[26:48] Atlanta. How can I live on that? There,

[26:50] you just can't. Kent Harold in the

[26:53] hard-hit oil business can't decide how

[26:55] to vote. The speech didn't help him.

[26:57] He's proven himself as a leader. The

[26:58] question is is he going to turn that

[27:01] leadership ability and that leadership

[27:03] quality back to the domestic sector?

[27:06] It's boring. It's a thankless job. It's

[27:09] not a it's not a fun thing to do. But if

[27:11] he doesn't do it, then he cannot lead

[27:13] this country. One way that Tulsa is

[27:15] absolutely representative of America,

[27:17] economically the city is struggling to

[27:19] keep up. In fact, the recession hit here

[27:21] early in the '80s when the oil business

[27:24] fell on hard times. With today's

[27:26] discontent, it's not surprising some

[27:28] here are deciding not who they will vote

[27:30] for, but who they will vote against.

[27:33] >> Right now

[27:34] I'm a Bush man.

[27:37] The only person who really could change

[27:38] my mind would be Perot.

[27:40] I was going to vote for him, but then

[27:41] when he decided not to run,

[27:44] I just decided to vote against Bush.

[27:46] As the election campaign officially

[27:48] begins, people in this test market have

[27:50] lots of things to do other than watch

[27:52] politics. As typical Americans, their

[27:55] votes aren't likely to be based on one

[27:57] speech or one slogan, but on the

[27:59] experience and beliefs of a lifetime.

[28:02] For Eye on America, this is John

[28:03] Blackstone in Tulsa.

[28:06] We wanted to apologize again for that

[28:08] technical glitch. You did finally get to

[28:10] see that John Blackstone piece. That's

[28:12] the CBS Evening News for tonight. Bob

[28:13] Schieffer will be along here tomorrow.

[28:15] I'm Paula Zahn sitting in for Dan Rather

[28:17] tonight. Hope you'll join Harry Smith

[28:19] and me Monday for CBS This Morning. Good

[28:21] night, everybody.

[28:47] Experience CBS News. This is CBS.

[28:56] Next on Hard Copy, Elvis, the end of an

[28:58] era, the death of innocence. I, Elvis,

[29:02] the final chapter.

[29:04] Growing up, my uncle was always there to

[29:07] talk to, to explain the world. It's hard

[29:10] being so far away now. Last spring a

[29:13] flood hit his place hard. We each wired

[29:16] him a MoneyGram from American Express.

[29:19] We could count on it and it's a lot less

[29:21] expensive and that helps.

[29:24] We may be all over the country,

[29:26] but our hearts are in the same place.

[29:29] MoneyGram from American Express, the

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