[ohioWfan]

Provide evidence for these claims.

This is the best I can do with my limited skills, time and ability to analyze stats, but here's what I came up with......

In the first place, I found links in my search to why Perot appealed to conservative voters, and one that even linked a Bush hating rant at FR in 1998, as to why he voted for xlinton because he was a 'true conservative!' LOL!

Anyway......I looked at the state of Wyoming, because it's a conservative state.

In 1992 this was the voter registration.....

Republican.....125,363 or roughly 60%
Democrat.....83,091, or 39.8%
Libertarian.....78.... not very many, poor fellows

Now..... the voting breakdown in the Presidential election was as follows.....

GHW Bush......39.6%
Clinton.......34%
Perot......25.6%

That means that if the percentages hold even roughly, Perot took less than 6% of the Democrat vote away, and nearly 20% away from Bush.

As I said, I'm not a statistical analyst, but it's very obvious that Perot drew Republican votes away in far greater numbers than Democrat.

Conservatives voting for Perot gave us Bill Clinton.

[MrLeRoy]

it's very obvious that Perot drew Republican votes away in far greater numbers than Democrat.

In Wyoming, yes---one of the least populous states, and, judging from the registration disparity, unrepresentative of the nation as a whole. Can you give me your link to the Wyoming data so I can try to springboard to data from other states?

[MrLeRoy]

Also note that not all Republicans are conservatives, and that Bush won Wyoming, so Wyoming does not support the claim that conservatives threw the election to Clinton by voting for Perot.

[Maelstrom]

Let me try to show OTHERS your significant and irrefuteable errors

In 1992 this was the voter registration.....

Republican.....125,363 or roughly 60%
Democrat.....83,091, or 39.8%
Libertarian.....78.... not very many, poor fellows


Now..... the voting breakdown in the Presidential election was as follows.....

GHW Bush......39.6%
Clinton.......34%
Perot......25.6%

That means that if the percentages hold even roughly, Perot took less than 6% of the Democrat vote away, and nearly 20% away from Bush.

No, that means nearly 20% of conservative voters didn't vote for Bush. IT NEVER MEANS THAT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE CHOSEN BUSH FOR PRESIDENT IF PEROT WERE NOT AVAILABLE

When there are no conservative candidates, conservatives stay home in droves. It's a lesson you should have learned after Pete Wilson's defeat...after GHB's defeat...after Ford's loss. You should also realize that when there is a conservative candidate, nothing approaching "pure" mind you, that conservatives come out to vote in massive %'s as well.