Nope, if not for a spoiler Clinton would have likely lost. A
Republican Revolution may have been a matter of course
If you think that would have been the case in the Bush v Clinton malaise regardless of the winner's percentage, then in honestly, you MUST admit a striking possibility of the same in this Obama v Romney malaise. {^) Come on, FRiend!! [^) "If not for a spoiler, Clinton would likely have lost." Really? I think if not for the spoiler, it's entirely up in the air as to who would have lost, as I think it's entirely up in the air which would win now, O or R.
And had Clinton WON with a majority, you really expect me to believe that you believe Republicans would have had the same momentum? Really??? Or do you know that the Republican "establishment" would have had the upper ground to warn conservative Republicans that they were a miniority? Just as they would if, God forbid, Romney wins? UNDERSTAND, FRiend, that Romney's people will be snuffing out every conservative uprising they see with the same contempt they have consistently exhibited toward conservatives, and you had BETTER RECOGNIZE NOW that a vote for Romney means a vote for a guy in office whose power elite will constantly remind Republican conservatives that the only reason the party has the White House at all is because of "moderates" like Romney, so conservatives had better sit down and behave themselves like good children, instead of raising a fuss like bad children.
WAKE UP AND THINK IT THROUGH.
Obama is hugely loathed, regretted, and even hated, including by a lot of folks who voted for him last time. If he wins again, then, another conservative Republican revolution may be "a matter of course" EXACTLY the same as you think it "may have been" with Clinton.
The TRUTH is that political support, being able to call a certain percentage of voters your "mandate," matters. An Obama elected by a splintered plurality would be put in a weakened and defensive position. I really hope there's a viable third party, and that's not its usual oymoron. "Viable" need only be good enough to make the winner enter office with a majority of the popular vote against him -- 66% would be nice, as in the "winner" takes office with 34% "confidence" of the people becaue the remaining 66% rejected that candidate.