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As Perot had previously done very well in debates, it was a decisive blow to the campaign when the Commission ruled that he could not participate on basis of somewhat vague criteria — such as that a candidate was required to have already been endorsed by " a substantial number of major news organizations ", with " substantial " being a number to be decided by the Commission on a case-by-case basis.
Robertson specialized in such impersonations as Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, John Major, and Queen Elizabeth, and Cullen could do imitations of Sandie Rinaldo, Princess Diana, Julia Child and Sister Wendy, among others.

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Prominent businessman and later 3rd party presidential candidate Ross Perot was known to have called her an " egg roll " after it was revealed that she was Asian.
Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial received harassment from Perot after her race was revealed: he was known to have called her an " egg roll " after it was revealed that she was Asian.
Unlike Perot, however, some other third party candidates since Roosevelt have won electoral college votes.
Exit polls also showed that Ross Perot drew 38 % of his vote from Bush, and 38 % of his vote from Clinton, while the rest of his voters would have stayed home had he not been on the ballot.
Perot is married to Margot Birmingham ; they have five children ( Ross Jr., Nancy, Suzanne, Carolyn, and Katherine ).
The 15 % criterion, had it been in place, would have prevented Anderson and Perot from participating in the debates they appeared in.
" While the term radical center or similar expressions have been used in various ways since at least the 1970s ( like " rigorously center " by the French Giscardian movement or the Portuguese Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party during its foundation ), its use became more common due to the Reform Party and Ross Perot, who were frequently described as representing the radical middle due to their attempts to partisanize those portions of the American electorate.
" Perot went on to needle Smith regarding the opulent 25th floor GM offices in New York, " An entire teak forest must have been decimated for that floor ".
In 1992, third-party Presidential candidate Ross Perot proposed that future Social Security benefits be subjected to a means test ; though this was hailed by some as a potential solution to an impending crisis in funding the program, few other political candidates since Perot have publicly made the same suggestion, which would require costly investigations and might associate accepting those benefits with social stigma.
Other guests spanned the political spectrum and have included Alexander Cockburn, Lenora Fulani, Ross Perot, and Richard C. Hoagland.
In 1992 almost all Democrats elected to Congress won more votes in their congressional districts than the party's Presidential candidate, Bill Clinton ; this may have had to do with the presence of a strong third-party presidential candidate, Ross Perot.

Perot and for
During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.
Businessman Ross Perot ran as candidate for the Reform Party with economist Pat Choate as his running mate ; he received less media attention and was excluded from the presidential debates and, while still obtaining substantial results for a third-party candidate, by U. S. standards, did not renew his success of the 1992 election.
Just over 100, 000 votes were cast for all other candidates, half of which were write-in votes for H. Ross Perot
In June, Perot led the national public opinion polls with support from 39 % of the voters ( versus 31 % for Bush and 25 % for Clinton ).
Perot severely damaged his credibility by dropping out of the presidential contest in July and remaining out of the race for several weeks before re-entering.
The campaign continued with a lopsided lead for Clinton through September, until Ross Perot decided to re-enter the race.
Henry Ross Perot (; born June 27, 1930 ) is a U. S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996.
Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $ 3. 9 billion in 2009.
After he left the Navy in 1957, Perot became a salesman for International Business Machines.
In 1974 Perot gained some press attention for being " the biggest individual loser ever on the New York Stock Exchange " when his EDS shares dropped $ 450 million in value in a single day in April 1970.
In 2007, it was sold by the Perot Foundation, in order to provide " for medical research, for improving public education and for assisting wounded soldiers and their families.
In September 2009, Perot Systems was acquired by Dell for $ 3. 9 billion.
On May 25, 1992 he was featured on the cover of Time with the title " Waiting for Perot ," an allusion to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.
In July, while Perot was pondering whether to run for office, his supporters established a campaign organization United We Stand America.
Perot was late in making formal policy proposals, but most of what he did call for were intended to reduce the deficit.
Perot employed the innovative strategy of purchasing half-hour blocks of time on major networks for infomercial-type campaign advertisements ; this advertising garnered more viewership than many sitcoms, with one Friday night program in October attracting 10. 5 million viewers.
At one point in June, Perot led the polls with 39 % ( versus 31 % for Bush and 25 % for Clinton ).

Perot and debates
Nominees participate in nationally televised debates, and while the debates are usually restricted to the Democratic and Republican nominees, third party candidates may be invited, such as Ross Perot in the 1992 debates.
The televised debates featured only Dole and Clinton, locking out Perot and the other minor candidates from the discussion.
Perot, who had been allowed to participate in the 1992 debates, would eventually take his case to court, seeking damages from not being in the debate, as well as citing unfair coverage from the major media outlets.
** George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot participate in the first of three televised debates.
Just prior to the debates, Perot received 7-9 % support in nationwide polls.
Although his answers during the debates were often general, many Democrats and Republicans conceded that Perot won at least the first debate.
Despite legal action by the Perot team, and an 80 % majority of Americans supporting his participation in the debates, the Commission refused to budge and Perot was reduced to making his points heard via a series of half-hour " commercials ".
Independent Ross Perot was included in all three of the debates with Republican George H. W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992, largely at the behest of the Bush campaign.
His participation helped Perot climb from 7 % before the debates to 19 % on Election Day.
Perot was excluded from the 1996 debates despite his strong showing four years prior.
Presaging more recent debates over the Reform Party, the Green Party, H. Ross Perot, and Ralph Nader, many considered the party either a left-wing spoiler party which would hurt Roosevelt, or an unworkable alliance between left-wing and right-wing populists.

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