Just in case anyone remembers Ross Perot at all, here's an 11-minute video that debunks the belief that if Perot hadn't run for president in 1992, George H.W. Bush would have won a second term and Bill Clinton would never have made it to the White House…or at least wouldn't have made it to the White House then. I'm not 100% certain.
It's true that exit polls showed pretty decisively that Perot did not take more votes from Bush than he took from Clinton…so in that sense, no, Perot did not cost Bush the election. But it is true that Bush's popularity was plunging during his last year in office…and maybe there's no way to measure this but I sure had the feeling Perot's speeches were contributing mightily to that plunge…
