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The fact is that third-party and independent candidates like Perot are more likely to play spoiler than win election as president.
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Historians will continue to argue about whether Perot cost President George H. Bush reelection in But the fact remain that no incumbent has lost a reelection campaign in recent memory without two key ingredients: a strong primary challenge and a notable third-party or independent candidate on Election Day. Bush faced a primary challenge from Pat Buchanan during the primary after breaking his "read my lips" promise not to raise taxes. Bush won every primary and caucus, but Buchanan weakened him.
The evidence suggests Perot was not a spoiler. Exit polls from '92 show that Perot pulled support from both candidates. He ran again with less success in and helped create the Reform Party. For the election, Trump, before he was a Republican, considered running on the Reform ticket. He ultimately did not and Buchanan, H.
Bush's Republican nemesis from , ran instead. And if I want , volunteers more, all I need to do is go on some national show. The Perot phenomenon signifies something larger, deeper. It signifies a geologic change in American politics: the growing obsolescence of the great institutions — the political parties, the Establishment media, the Congress — that have traditionally stood between the governors and the governed. The traditional way to achieve and wield power in America is to tame or charm or capture these institutions.
Win or lose, knowing or not, Perot is the harbinger of a new era of direct democracy…. As for the media, he realized that the proliferation of outlets has created a new game: a way to reach the American people directly, without the mediation of Dan Rather and the New York Times.
The Perot campaign owed much of its amazing start to its call-in, soft-news-show launch, which allowed it to get its message out unfiltered. It is here, says Perot, that the American people will, in direct communion with the leader, solve those knotty problems that have eluded a clumsy, corrupt Congress. Perot figured out he could speak to the party faithful, and everyone, more efficiently. Banking and Finance. Constitutional Law.
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