stripping votes from President William Howard Taft and giving the election to Woodrow Wilson. Perot did it without the undercurrent of racial animus that helped fuel George Wallace`s campaign in ...

Regarding Phil Campbell’s Aug. 8 letter (“A Trojan Horse Was the End of Troy”): For the record, the conventional wisdom regarding the Ross Perot effect on the 1992 election is patently wrong.

In the 1992 presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton ... While it cannot be claimed irrefutably that without Perot, former President George H. W. Bush would have won reelection, ...

As the 1992 election continued, Perot gained the support of millions ... And on Election Day, Perot, who had gone for months without campaigning and had relaunched his campaign with just weeks ...

Two key elements in the 1992 presidential election, however, were missing: the appearance of independent candidate Ross Perot and then ... My guess is that without those two elements, Bush would ...

"Although Perot's independent candidacy was unsuccessful in the 1992 election (and he really struggled ... having the temerity to run for president without going through party bureaucracies ...