Ross Perot

all of American history have carried even a single state in a presidential election. Ross Perot’s run as the reform Party Candidate for president in 1996, when he won just over 8 million votes. (Hershey, 2015) According to The New York Times, Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire, drew from both candidates was proof that a potential third-party candidate can affect the outcome of a presidential race. In fact, Perot finished the race in third place taking his share of the popular vote by drawing…

Presidential Debates and therefore do not have a realistic chance of winning the election and should not be allowed to participate in the presidential debates. The only third party candidate to join a debate was independent candidate, Ross Perot, in 1992. Though Perot achieved a nineteen percent popularity in the polls and was allowed to participate in the debates, he did not win the election. Four years later, the commission denied him access to the debate because his campaign did not have a…

sovereignty to the narrowly economic. These criticisms through narrowly economic were concentrated essentially on the impact that NAFTA would have on employment, compensation, and the quality of jobs. Some from labor believed in the theory that Ross Perot believed that “jobs going south to Mexico” from Canada and the US. Some of the supporters from the opposite perspective suggested that the agreement would create a slowdown in immigration from Mexico for labor. They also believed that the US…

In my opinion, the 2 party system has worked for America for a long time. Many other countries that allow multi-party systems become too diluted in their leadership and sometimes forming a strong government becomes arduous when several parties have won electoral seats and do not agree with each other on various political issues or the policies for the betterment of the country/people. With the 2 party system, we have clear ideologies of each party and within these ideologies, our country has had…

The 1990s began with the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. The 2 questions we have to ask is how a sitting president with an 80% approval rating in 1990 lost the election 2 years later and what caused the right to left political shift. Republican’s seemed slightly lost after the Persian Gulf War and were leaning to a more conservation right. With no major foreign affairs to focus on all eyes were on the economy. George bush then uttered those 6 famous words…

The 1992 Presidential election pitted incumbent President George Bush against the Democratic party’s candidate Bill Clinton and Independent Ross Perot in a contentious campaign. Bush had garnered the votes of the American people in the 1988 election under the pretense that taxes during his presidency under no uncertain terms, or as he famously stated “Read my lips. No new taxes”, would rise. Bush soon breaks this oath to deal with the rising deficit, this action resulting in a lasting effect on…

Have you ever thought of how unfair the electoral college is when you are voting for your president.The Electoral College is when after you vote, the votes of the people get overruled by people. They made the Electoral College because back when voting first started they didn’t think regular people were smart enough to make to decision to elect our own president. One reason the Electoral College should be abolished is because, its undemocratic, every person should have one equal vote. Your vote…

Historically, American politics has favored a competitive two-party system. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists created an intense division in American politics, which eventually developed into the modern Republican versus Democrat government of today. Despite citizen's unwavering devotion to the two-party system, minor political parties, based on strongly supported ideological convictions, have emerged, attempting to compete against the major political…

The contextual factors that I think affected these eight leaders were definitely affected by some, if not all, of the examples given above. These eight personalities/leaders all managed to shine or not shine in different ways, but no question, had say, Franklin Roosevelt or King David lived in the times that we live in today they might not have been able to utilize their strengths that they were able to in their time periods. When we look at these eight great leaders we see that they are all…

presidential election to measure the competitiveness of the 1992 district. The problem with this is that in 1988 there was two candidates George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, while in 1992 there where three candidates Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. Perot ended up with 18.9 percent of the votes, swaying the race between Clinton and Bush seven percent. This has conflicting evidence and therefore cannot be correlated with each other. Looking at both McDonald’s research and Abramowitz,…