Good point. Clinton was the luckiest SOB on the planet when Perot got in and took votes from Bush. Clinton’s relative success made it safe to vote for Democrats again after the debacle of Jimmy Carter. And it ultimately positioned Hillary to run. That would never have happened without Bill Clinton winning in 1992.
I actually have an old political cartoon produced during the primaries that year. It shows Bill as one of the democrats, each floating down a river on a tire tube to certain doom over a waterfall. bill is in the front and on his tube are the words “Genifer Flowers”.
Also, no “real” candidates joined that race for the dems because Bush’s numbers were absurdly high. When they dropped like a rock, it was too late to enter. The “viable” candidate at the top of the pack won the lottery.