02-22-2012, 11:55 AM
(02-22-2012, 07:55 AM)eppie Wrote: I mean this guy got 20 % of the votes......so if you add to that all the strategic Bush en Clinton votes (so the people that were scared to vote for Perot because it would increase the chance of the candidate they were against got elected) it wouldn't be strange to think that he could have reached 35 % of the popular vote and so maybe even more than Clinton and Bush.
That doesn't seem plausible to me. 15% of voters preferred Perot, but strategically voted for one of the other two? I'd believe 1.5%, maybe. 15% is 15 million people...
-Jester