[detch]

Perhaps you are too young to remember, or have a lapse in memory.

Clinton 43.0%
Bush 37.5%
Perot 18.9%

I don’t think one Perot vote would have Ever gone to Clinton.

[JoSixChip]

Perhaps you are too young to remember, or have a lapse in memory.

perhaps you are too senile to remember "Read my lips".

[kingu]

Perhaps you are too young to remember, or have a lapse in memory. Clinton 43.0% Bush 37.5% Perot 18.9% I don't think one Perot vote would have Ever gone to Clinton.

We don't elect presidents by popular vote, we do it by the electoral college.

Go take a look at the results and then pick which states you think that Bush could have carried that he didn't already win. Bush lost his own race, Perot was just an interesting sideline. Oh, and a particularly useful boogieman for anyone who threatens to not vote for the designated (r).

[SquarePants]

You post that as if there was really any benefit in having re-elected GHWB in 92 over Clinton. Bush left a huge vacuum of people who had supported Reagan but saw how Bush proved himself untrustworthy in his first term. Clinton was elected because of Bush