Met Perot once when interviewing at Dell in Plano many years ago... I was being walked to the conference room and Perot was walking down the hall. He knew the woman I was walking with and even wished me luck. Didn't get the job though... Texas billionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot dies at 89 https://komonews.com/news/nation-wo...-presidential-candidate-ross-perot-dies-at-89
Roughly a week ago I mentioned Ross Perot to a young coworker in his 30s and he had no idea who the hell that was. I felt old. For his 15 minutes he was about as famous as Michael Jackson, and then he disappeared back into anonymity to play with the billions of dollars he made all by himself with nobody to bother him. He was kind of a comical cantankerous little guy while in the public eye, but WTF did he care? He seriously won at life.
am i the only one who pronounces his last name "parrot" in my head? btw someone in their 30s should at least have heard of ross perot, unless they grew up in another country.
Thing I remember most about Perot was that damn HB 72 back in high school. It got me kicked out of band for 6 weeks and caused me to miss a trip to Orlando where I probably could have gotten laid.
Dude bought airtime on the three major networks (could not have been cheap) to explain the debt and deficit situation to us, plainly and simply. The government will never do this. For that alone, he should be remembered as performing a major public service.
RIP wacky billionaire. Ironically, Sr's infamous tax hikes set the road for Bubba to balance the federal budget late into his 2nd term. Without Perot, Sr would've likely won re-election despite the recession.
[Premium Post] I liked Perot, but his presence in the race ushered in the Clinton crime family's rule, despite Clinton winning a mere 43% of the vote in the '92 election.
47. And the source I got it from is a credible source. If they got it wrong, so be it. But I've seen Snopes be very wrong before.
That's never been proven with any actual math. The exit polls all indicated that Perot voters came pretty equally from both parties. Bush was a victim of a realignment that hit Republicans particularly hard in 1992. Liberal states in the west and Northeast finally voted for a Democrat for president while Clinton was able to hold on to a good portion of the South. Now there are certain states in the West with Libertarian streaks (Montana and Nevada) where Perot probably helped Clinton win states that he otherwise would've lost. But I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that he actually cost Bush the election. As an FYI, campaign contribution limits are still in effect for individuals. You can't just drop millions on a candidate's campaign. Now you can form PACs and give as much money as you want but you can't actually give more than a combined $5600 for a campaign's primary and general election campaigns.
Just as an aside -- This is not unprecedented in US presidential election history. Was the same in 1912, when TR ran as independent, allowing Wilson to get in with about that same 43%; and I think that it was somewhat the same in 1968, when Tricky Dick won the election with the help of a vote-splitting independent.
Oh yes, it's all related. It was also those same tax hikes that made 41 so unpopular with fiscal conservatives, that it opened the door for Perot. This is in turn forced 41 to try and appear more conservative, to get those voters back; which in turn opened the door for a centrist like Bubba to come in and seem like the sensible choice, and take the WH.
