Re: The debates mess (2) -- Harper v Ignatieff?
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Peter T. Chattaway < petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > I can't remember, did Perot take part in the debates in '92 or '96? >>> >> >> I'm thinking '92, spoiling the election for GHW Bush. >> > > So he took part in '92, but not in '96? He ran both times, but '92 was where he got almost 20% of the vote. I don't think he was polling high enough to get into the '96 debates. And Republicans had a particular interest in preventing him from doing so. > (If memory serves, Bush's re-election in '04 marked the first time that > someone had won more than 50% of the vote since his dad won the election in > '88.) > Yeah. Bush got 50.7%. A clear mandate. ;) -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot