Powell could have beaten the crap out of Klintoon, had he run in 1996.
Perot’s 10 percent or so pretty much made most tossup states Democrat in that one.
When I was in college (and a McGovern liberal, may the Lord forgive me) half a century ago, I made the fearless prediction that our first black President would be elected in 2000, and he would be a Republican. Powell would have been the fulfillment of my prophecy, though looking backward now rather than forward, I wonder how different if any he would have been from GWB after 9/11.