You have a poor recollection of 1992. Perot DID spoil that race, and 1996, too. He took most of his votes from those who voted for GHW Bush in 1988. Bubba the Rapist actually performed WORSE than Dukakis did in 1988. Dukakis got almost 46%, Bubba got 43%.
Perot was actually leading in the race (with Bubba in 3rd place) when he withdrew in the Spring, proving his candidacy was a total joke, and that he didn’t want to win, he just wanted to prevent Bush from winning. He accomplished his goal. Sadly, his refusal to get off the ballot in 1996 also kept Dole from winning (had Dole picked up the Perot votes, he’d have narrowly beaten Bubba - who never got 50% of the vote either time he ran).
You have a poor recollection of 1992. Perot DID spoil that race, and 1996, too. He took most of his votes from those who voted for GHW Bush in 1988. Bubba the Rapist actually performed WORSE than Dukakis did in 1988. Dukakis got almost 46%, Bubba got 43%.Perot was actually leading in the race (with Bubba in 3rd place) when he withdrew in the Spring, proving his candidacy was a total joke, and that he didn’t want to win, he just wanted to prevent Bush from winning. He accomplished his goal. Sadly, his refusal to get off the ballot in 1996 also kept Dole from winning (had Dole picked up the Perot votes, he’d have narrowly beaten Bubba - who never got 50% of the vote either time he ran).
Isn't it amazing that so few people know that Bill Clinton was elected president two times without a majority of the popular vote.
And you both are forgetting the most thermonuclear gaff ever, “no new taxes”. A huge broken promise during a pitiful recovery from recession. Lots of voters were pretty P-Od about that.