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Anon is tired (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The spoiler effect was very evident when Ross Perot ran during the 1992 presidential election which put Clinton in office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Well yes, that and the epic sax skills effect haha.

[–] commie 1 points 2 years ago

wrong. fivethirtyeight found that perot cost clinton a wider margin of victory.

A 1999 study in the American Journal of Political Science estimated that Perot's candidacy hurt the Clinton campaign, reducing "Clinton's margin of victory over Bush by seven percentage point."[47] In 2016, FiveThirtyEight noted that it was "unlikely" that Perot was a spoiler.[48]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election#Analysis