Perot lost a TON of momentum by quitting the race in July of 1992. He rejoined after a couple months and by then it was a different feel.
“Perot lost a TON of momentum by quitting the race in July of 1992”
-—Yes, he did lose a lot of supporters when he quit and I was one of them. He could have rode that wave a long way but he dropped out and the fire was gone!
Trump is in a different class.
I'd totally forgotten about the dropping out part, but thank you for reminding me of that. Its coming back to memory now.
Then there was McCain, who suspended his campaign.
There was no excuse for it, since he should have seen it coming.
I'm not an accountant, and so have little ability to make final determination...but we are supposed to believe https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list.
MarketWatch doesn't, entirely http://www.marketwatch.com/story/some-ugly-truths-about-the-bank-bailouts-2015-01-29.
Note at that first link who it is who still owes LARGE?
One of the biggies there, was all Obama and the Democrats.
What's not listed is all the hundreds of billions B.Hussein.O burned through on Green Energy projects, which if not having failed, lined the pockets of investors, at the cost to both government, and energy users in the way of increased rate$.
While at the second link, the impression I get is that Tea Party (remember those guys?) sentiments against supplying TAARP funding were correct.
Those banks were not going to fail, not fully across the board. It would have been messy, but bottom feeders would have gotten fat (eventually), if they were careful about the way they went about chewing.
In the spring & early summer of 2008, Congress approved about half (or less?) the funding that eventually was approved.
To my eyes, it looked like the bankers said to themselves, "hey, that was easy, let's do that again" while making all sorts of noises about how the sky would fall if they were not rescued.