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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: TraderGreg who wrote (4355)12/2/2000 11:28:23 PM
From: moosebeary  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
<<Perot's exit from the race could have only made a difference if Bush had gotten upwards to 70+ % of the TOTAL Perot vote.>>

Bush would have gotten about 85% of the Perot vote. From their own mouths, AT THE TIME OF THE ELECTION, NOT NOW. You lefties always want to think Clinton could have won without Perots help, but it just isn't so. Perot set out to make Bush lose, and he did. And he bragged about it afterward. If you were following the race, it was obvious that most of the Perot vote was anti Bush, anti-Washington. Those same Perot voters voted Republican 2 years later and created the takeover of Congress, for the same "lets fix Washington" reason. Those kind of people would never vote for a liberal like Clinton, as he is seen as the problem, not the solution. Clinton knew that, and that is why he worked so hard on the "new democrat" thing. But it didn't work.
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