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To: chimera

No, I mean that she'll need another Ross Perot, just like her husband had. Bill Clinton wouldn't have won without Perot's "assistance".


174 posted on 11/08/2006 6:51:47 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

I understand. And yes, a strong third-party candidate who drains the natural strength of one candidate often tilts the election. Perot is the most recent example. Another would be George Wallace in '68, which is one campaign I remember well. He drew support from both Nixon (conservative voters) and Humphrey (southern Democrats, who were still somewhat common then). That made for a close election in what otherwise might have been more favorable, probably to Nixon because of the unpopularity of Johnson and Vietnam.


313 posted on 11/09/2006 6:10:22 AM PST by chimera
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