re: Spoilsport Perot handed Clinton the ‘92 victory.
In 1992, Clinton 43%, Bush 38%, Perot 19%.
How many percent of Perot’s votes were actually from Republicans?
Surveys said about 68-72/733%
It also very definitely hurt Bush in other ways too. Fundraising and voter enthusiasm were the big problems.
More than the popular vote, it was the states it cost Bush:
Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana. and others. All would have gone Bush had it not been Perot.
Bottom line: No Perot = No Clinton Presidency
No Clinton Presidency = No Hillary
and No Hillary, no others Dems thinking she was a shoe in, so they didn’t run, or at least seriously run in 2008, thereby leaving it wide open for an unknown asshole from Illinois to run as the Anti-Hillary
Bottom line, No Perot, maybe even no Obama. Certainly, post-Bust 43, we probably would have had a Dem, but not the radical anti-American Obama is.