If anything that would have helped Bush, or at least the GOP strategists thought that way. It was a weird campaign, with its "Chicken Georges", State people snooping in Clinton's passport files and asking the UK government to do the same (plus Tory strategists advising the Bush campaign), Perot's weird allegations that Bush had sent SpecOps to try and kidnap his daughter at her wedding... more interpersonal Oprah-esque drama between the candidates than any subsequent election till 2008.