Everyone always compares it to Perot/Clinton/Bush and says “It will make us lose” just because we lost in THAT case.
But I agree with you, I think it will do exactly the same thing as before, except in our favor.
Hey, don’t forget: Had it not been for Ralph Nader being on the ballot in FL, we’d have had Al Gore for 8 years.
Here it is 19 years later, and people are still blaming Perot for the collapse of Bush the Elder. There is one person to blame for that collapse and it is Bush Senior himself.
He was McCains first time, who famously broke his promise on raising taxes, but also supported and signed one liberal law after another. He ignored the pleas of the conservative grassroots. He knew better. Bush was smarter than the rest of us. Bush I gave us Clinton and Bush II gave us Obama with their 'know it all' big government plans.
I cringe when I know hear folks calling for Jeb Bush to step in. God No!. What would Bush III bring us? Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini?
George H. W. Bush managed the greatest political collapse in American History, going from 90% approval to getting 37% of the vote. That's a 53% drop.
Also, in voter analysis just after that election showed that Perot pulled equally from the Dem's as from the Rep's. Arguably, Perot made the difference is states that cost Bush the electoral vote. I don't know. The question is why was Bush so bad to lose such support, that people would even vote for the hand grenade with the bad haircut.
Bush lost it. Embrace the truth.
Anderson, 1980's Jon Huntsman, ran independent and got 6.6% of the vote. Reagan still beat Carter like a rug.
The Tea Partiers and the base aren't gonna vote 3rd Party this time, who will? Which is actually a good question to ask. Who's likelier to vote 3rd party this year, it'll be the squishes and country clubbers and the hard left. Go figure.