[Snuffington]

It does reveal Jesse for what I always believed him to be, a flash in the pan.

You were more correct than the hordes of supposedly expert political media who kept trying to pretend Ventura's election said something about a growing third party movement. That was nonsense. Ventura was a cult of personality. His base were people who thought it was "cool" to vote for a former pro-wrestler. Not much to build a third party on.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That might have been part of it. But if I could pick my opponents like Socialist Skip Humphrey and (at the time) a recent GOP convert like Norm Coleman in a three way race, I think anyone could win if they worked at it, which Jessie did.