Word: perots
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After the effort, in which he drew 19 percent of the popular vote, Perot and his supporters organized the Reform Party, focused on such issues as balancing the budget, reforming campaign finance and election laws and protecting American jobs...
...Perot ran under the banner of the Reform Party against President Clinton and Republican challenger Bob Dole, drawing less than nine percent of the vote. But the showing was good enough to secure federal matching funds for the Reform Party candidate in the 2000 election...
...while both Davis and Hawkins' disillusionment drew them to the Reform Party, the political infighting between Perot and Ventura factions over the last two months has forced them to question the party's credibility...
Soon after, National Reform Party Chair Jack Gargan, a Ventura supporter, was ousted from his leadership position at a Tennessee meeting where scuffles broke out between members on the meeting floor. Gargan was replaced by Perot's former vice presidential running mate Pat Choate...
...Ross Perot, who won 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992, did not receive any electoral college votes...