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Just a recent idea I had.

So, WI Ross Perot won a bigger margin of the popular vote in 1992, and didn't run again in 1996. Bill Clinton's still elected president, and re-elected in 1996, and history is exactly the same. Then, in 2000, former Perot supporters draft Ross Perot into the race once again as an Independent, and now, the 2000 election is a three-way Bush vs. Gore vs. Perot campaign.

Is Perot elected president? Does Perot take votes away from Bush and give Al Gore the presidency? Or does George W. Bush somehow survive Perot's candidacy and win the presidency?

The only problem I see with this scenario so far is that Ross Perot was born in 1930, and would be seventy years old in 2000, seventy-four in 2004, and, if he is re-elected, seventy-eight in 2008.

Still - could it have happened? And what do you think would have happened?
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