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If Perot were to get a better campaign, avoid some gaffes, and take his position as third party candidate more seriously, could he get at least to 2nd place, and cement his party as serious? He was leading the early polls, and even after dropping out almost 1/5 of America voted for him, but the power of a President without a Congress to back them up is limited. So if Perot takes his leadership responsibility more seriously, he create a real, well-funded party that can compete in State election

Is it possible for the Reform Party to either take a third seat in congress (and eventually be absorbed like the Populist's, Progressives, and Farmer-Laborers) or can they supplement the Republicans, like the Whigs did the Anti-Masons and National Republicans? Or is the then-current 2 party system too entrenched for one of them too fall without years of problems to destabilize them?
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