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Aw, Remember Ross Perot?

August 14, 2008

I think the 1992 Presidential campaign was the first I followed really obsessively (extremely obsessively, if you consider that I was a seventeen-year-old Canadian the day the election was actually held — two reasons I couldn’t have voted in it). And to give you an idea of what a misguided pinko I was — my guy? Jerry Brown. Adorable! Anyway, this item from Chicagoist today reminded me that it was actually a three-man race that year: Ross Perot was probably the last third-party spoiler who had a marginally reasonable chance of winning — proof of America’s love affair with a yammering kook. Perhaps you’d like to recall his wisdom with some choice Ross Perot audio clips.

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