You agree with Bradley that a televised debate would be the best place to strut your stuff. However when you challenge the other two candidates, they refuse. Both Clinton and Forbes are unwilling to share the same forum with you. Instead of letting this get you down, you use it to your advantage. You go all around the country, appearing on every politically-related television and radio show you can, blasting Forbes and Clinton for being `afraid' to debate with you.
Your strategy works as you sky-rocket in the polls. The ticket of you and Bill Bradley is taking the country by storm, and running like a steam train. In the last poll before Election Day, it is anybody's election, with you with thirty percent, Steve Forbes with thirty-three percent, President Clinton with thirty-seven. The day before Election Day, you and Bradley go on one more big campaign blitz to gain some more ground.
It is the morning after Election Day, and the balloons in your campaign center are slowly deflating. You came in second behind President Clinton. It was closer than expected. It all came down to Alaska, and you lost it to Clinton since you never campaigned there because, as you say, "there aren't any chicks in Alaska." However you earned a spot in the history books by achieving, by far, the best showing by a third-party candidate ever. And, ironically, you are going to be reading these history books some more lately, since you are taking night classes to get your GED, so for once in your life you can be qualified to get a real job.
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