Ross Perot came along and helped get him the Presidency.
People also forget that Carter had signed legislation in 1980 regarding S&Ls that ended up helping a ton if them collapse, so all through Reagan and Bush 1 we had to pay off the S&L crisis.
Though it was a Democrat fault, the under educated people didn't know better and took it all out on who was in office.
Still, third party conservatives threw votes away on Ross Perot and gave us Clinton.
I know I'm not the only one who began the shift to reason during that election. I had always been a Democrat. That was the first time I didn't vote that way. I voted for Perot because as a lifelong Dem, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Bush. As a woman with a conscience, I couldn't vote for Clinton, either. I know.....I should have stayed home.
And......it's a moot point now, but Perot could have won that election if he hadn't started "Doing the Hokey-Pokey".