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Which is why Perot had to gaslight the country on LKL with the ninjas-on-my-lawn story, otherwise he was going to win. In fact it was exactly 20 years ago when he had the plurality polling lead (39%).

It was June of 1992 when I went to a Perot rally on Boston Common. It was pandemonium. About 20,000 people turned out on a day's notice.

Like you, I wonder if Perot had an "oh crap" moment when he realized he was actually on the way to winning the election outright. That's probably not what Perot had in mind at all so he turned on the "crazy uncle" bit in order to throw the election to Clinton (which is what he evidently wanted to do all along). Notice how he got back in the race that summer after dropping out when it seemed that Bush might be catching up. However this time, he threw Admiral Stockdale (poor guy) into the mix just to ensure he wouldn't actually win. All he wanted was to pull enough votes away from Bush to guarantee Clinton the victory.

I know it all sounds like some crazy conspiracy but evidently the Bushes did something in Texas to rub Perot the wrong way and this was his way of exacting a measure of revenge. It's probably nothing more than that.

One thing for sure, Perot is not the crazy nut people make him out to be. I just think he had absolutely no intention of actually being elected president.