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It's Perot Stupid! The Legacy of the 1992 Perot Movement in the Major-Party System, 1994–2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Walter J. Stone  and
Ronald B. Rapoport
Walter J. Stone
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder
Ronald B. Rapoport
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary
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By any standard, the 2000 presidential election was close. It was close in the Electoral College, where Bush prevailed by the slimmest majority (271–266), and it was close in the national popular vote, where Gore edged Bush by about 540,000 votes in an electorate of more than 100 million. Needless to say, the 2000 election was also astonishingly close in individual states like Florida, New Mexico, Wisconsin, and Oregon.

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Research Article
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 49 - 58
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© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

*We are grateful to David Brady, Sandy Maisel, Bernard Rapoport, and Rob Van Houweling for helpful suggestions and comments on an earlier draft, and to Gary Jacobson for supplying us with some of the data we use in this article.