honestly, i dont think it would have made much of a difference. had perot stayed in the race from start to finish and picked a more polished running mate, he might have gotten 20%+ and picked off a state like maine, montana, or alaska.
I'm not so sure. Before Perot dropped out of the running he was running near the 30's.
It's true. Perot at that time was polling roughly even with George HW Bush and Bill Clinton. He was espousing such policies as balancing the federal budget, and enacting electronic direct democracy via "electronic town halls."
Many of his policy pronouncements were interesting and appealing to many voters.
Likely, however, as the election drew near, you would see Republican and Democratic supporters drifting more and more back to their political homes.
Although it would be interesting to see a map of how the election would have turned out had all three candidates been polling around even numbers on election day, say Clinton 35%, Bush 34%, Perot 31%.
Anyone want to hazard a map?