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12 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Even as the group cited polling showing public dissatisfaction with President Biden and Donald Trump and support for a generic third-party candidate, No Labels could not convince any prominent leaders to mount a challenge that aimed to become the first substantial third-party effort since independent Ross Perot’s showing in the 1992 election. [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 8:12 am
’s VP pick is a missile aimed at Biden" (CNN).And: "As a former Clinton strategist, the dumbest myth I’ve had to deal with was that Ross Perot’s independent candidacy swung the 1992 election to Clinton. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 4:10 am by jonathanturley
Sources with No Labels have pushed back on the media narratives by noting that Ross Perot did not enter the race until February of 1992. [read post]
14 Nov 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Like prior third-party candidates of the last several decades--such as Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, and Stein herself--the current gaggle of soon-to-be-footnotes are egomaniacs who crave attention and perhaps are delusional enough to believe they have a chance of winning the general election. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 9:06 am
Recent polling shows he’d be the most formidable independent candidate since Ross Perot" (Politico).Last month’s NBC News poll didn’t ask about Kennedy specifically, but it showed a tied race between Biden and Trump in which Trump’s supporters are far more enthusiastic about their candidate... [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Some older readers might recognize in my title a reference to Admiral James Stockdale, Ross Perot’s running mate in the 1992 presidential election. [read post]
24 Jul 2022, 11:08 am by Simon Lester
Back during the heart of "neoliberalism" in the 1980s and 1990s (as I accept the critics' paradigm for the sake of argument), people were writing things like "Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future To Japan & How To Reclaim It"; Pat Buchanan got a lot of mileage out of his version of America First; Ira Magaziner was pushing industrial policy in the Clinton administration; Ross Perot did surprisingly well as a third party presidential candidate… [read post]
24 Jul 2022, 11:08 am by Simon Lester
Back during the heart of "neoliberalism" in the 1980s and 1990s (as I accept the critics' paradigm for the sake of argument), people were writing things like "Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future To Japan & How To Reclaim It"; Pat Buchanan got a lot of mileage out of his version of America First; Ira Magaziner was pushing industrial policy in the Clinton administration; Ross Perot did surprisingly well as a third party presidential candidate… [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 9:10 am by JB
., the Libertarian Party and the Green Party) that regularly field candidates, but because of the way our electoral system is designed, they tend not to win very many elections.In the past, influential third parties have been one-person affairs (George Wallace's American Party, Ross Perot's independent candidacy) that fade as soon as their leader's political power fades. [read post]
23 Jan 2021, 7:48 am
 In 1992 cranky Texan Ross Perot announced on Larry King live he would run for president if people would write his name in, A political revolt was born that ended with Perot taking enough votes away from George Herbert Walker Bush to get William Jefferson Clinton elected President. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 3:27 pm by David Bernstein
Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan appealed to this demographic to a large extent. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 11:49 am
K) Name the opponents for independent candidates John B Anderson and Ross Perot? [read post]
25 Oct 2020, 7:49 am by Tom Smith
In 1992 third-party candidate Ross Perot won 24% of the vote, almost certainly stealing Oregon for Democrat Bill Clinton. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  He might never have become the Ross Perot of 2020, but he easily could have threatened to match or even exceed 2016’s combined third-party total of about 6% nationwide (and even a bit more, 6.7%, in Wisconsin). [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 10:03 am by Derek T. Muller
Strong third-party candidates like Ross Perot in 1992 won zero electoral votes. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 10:43 pm by Derek T. Muller
But, to be frank, there’s a material difference, in my view, between serious independent candidates like John Anderson in 1980 and Ross Perot in 1992, and unserious independent candidates like Lyndon LaRouche in several elections and Evan McMullin in 2016—breadth of a campaign to every (or nearly every) state lends seriousness to the ticket. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 11:48 am by Sandy Levinson
It is a cliche that it is often easier to slay messengers whose messages we find repugnant than to address who is sending the messages in the first place. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 12:52 pm by Sandy Levinson
  Ross Perot was absolutely correct in his unsentimental description of the president. [read post]