1992 Presidential Election

[Adlai Stevenson]

That may be true but I think people have always claimed they want a third party.  Reagan himself toyed with creating a third party of Southern Democrats and conservative backers of his 1976 bid for the Republican nomination.  Before that, Nixon wanted to run on a coalition of moderates and imagined he could create a third party.  The political climate is so poisonously polarized now I can't see anyone breaking away from either the Republican or Democratic parties.  America needs to elect a moderate capable of drawing support from the other party for there to be a breakdown of this, and that is unlikely to happen. 

Back to the question, I do think it was amazing Clinton/Gore won 368 in the Electoral College with 43% of the vote.  It will be at least until 2012/2016 before a candidate reaches that margin of the electoral vote again.