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Is there any evidence that gun owners voted for Perot in any significant numbers? That would have been rather pointless.

[Long Cut]

A fair number of gun owners had no idea WHERE Perot stood on guns...they simply assumed that he was progun due to his biography (and don't forget, this was BEFORE the alternative media of the Internet and talkradio were in full swing to inform them). A like number voted Buchanan(pointless) or simply stayed home.

Slick never DID get a true majority of the vote, remember. Thanks to the waverers, he didn't need it.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Is there any evidence that gun owners voted for Perot in any significant numbers?"

I don't have data, but it makes sense that the typical Reagan Democrat rust belt union guy who shoots felt betrayed by Country Club Bush (remember him renouncing his NRA life membership?) on the import ban.

He didn't much like Clinton (though many did) and Perot appealed to the voter on issues besides guns: trade, and down-home straight talk.