” God, have they forgotten Ross Perot? “
No comparison. Trump is SMART and PREPARES TOTALLY.
Nothing dumb about Perot. If he had stayed in the race until November instead of dropping out for six weeks or so in late June, he would have got enough popular votes to throw the election into the House. When he dropped out, he thought that Clinton would pick up enough steam to defeat Bush, but Clinton flagged somewhat and so Perot got back into the race, taking enough Republicans votes away from Bush to defeat him. Ross got in because he hated Bush. I think he dropped out because he was afraid he might get elected!