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Former Presidential candidate Ross Perot dies at 89

News just reported he died of a secondary infection while being treated for leukemia.
 
KeithE4 said:
He ran for President as a 3rd party candidate in 1992 and 1996, with relatively more success in '92. He never received any electoral votes.
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But he almost certainly pulled enough votes away from the Bush ticket in the close states to swing the '92 election to Clinton. A friend of my father's who'd voted Republican for years switched to Perot and afterward was ruing his choice, although being a New York resident, the Perot votes made no difference in the outcome there.
 
I'm curious to know how on a live broadcast, Dana Carvey played both him and George H.W. Bush in the debate.
 
He earned his money in the IT business where he was a pioneer,
part of his story that most people have forgotten about.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
He earned his money in the IT business where he was a pioneer,
part of his story that most people have forgotten about.
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It makes you wonder what his position would have been on net neutrality, but even if he had won that wasn't an issue yet.
 
CTListener said:
But he almost certainly pulled enough votes away from the Bush ticket in the close states to swing the '92 election to Clinton. A friend of my father's who'd voted Republican for years switched to Perot and afterward was ruing his choice, although being a New York resident, the Perot votes made no difference in the outcome there.
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If he had not wavered on running in '92, he might have pulled as much as 25% of the popular vote. As it was, I believe that he got about 19%. By '96, he was a has-been and even got excluded from the debates.
 
anotherguy said:
It makes you wonder what his position would have been on net neutrality, but even if he had won that wasn't an issue yet.
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Al Gore hadn't invented that part of the internet yet. :D
 
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