do you have any empirical data to back that up??
Please don’t be a “Never Trump”-er, who says things to protect that family. Bush Sr. was a goner in 1992, and if not for the myth, woulda been a goner in 2000.
I didn’t save a stack of affidavits from every Perot voter, just the empirical data of watching Perot’s campaign at the time and hearing what many pro-Perot voters had to say. Perot wasn’t a wildly successful IBM salesman for nothing — he deployed “sales” psychology brilliantly in those 30 minutes TV spots, using simple flip charts to lead inexorably to the answers he wanted each listener to form in their own mind. People believed he really could “make America great again”. Many Trump supporters are the exact same sort who supported Perot: decent, hard-working people, who see things as going down the tubes, but retain hope that problems can still be fixed, if only someone effective was at the helm. Trump lacks Perot’s discipline, but he throws out solutions and people want to believe.
Pre-election polls from 1992 would be interesting, but it was my observation THEN — not a myth dreamed up later — that polling showed Clinton to be topped out in the 40%’s. If he was the ONLY candidate, that’s all he was going to get. Perot’s senior citizen brigades were not going to vote for the didn’t inhale womanizing hippie hick draft-dodging slickie boy under any circumstances. GHW Bush did come across as exhausted, with no burning drive to win. That could have been the result of a 12 year run in office, or factors beyond my ken, but it mattered.
I don’t “say things” to protect the Bush dynasty or anyone else — thanks for the implication that I am some sort of lying tool. I’m “Never Hillary”, and would crawl through molten glass to vote for Trump over that criminal. But I have a lot of reservations about Trump, another salesman likely to disappoint conservatives (his recent gun control sellout is a perfect example of what I expect from him). The thing most likely to put Hillary in office is a 3rd party siphoning off conservative votes n a few swing states. She remembers 1992 and 1996. I only hope Bugs Bernie does too.