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the show, notes, the live stream, all of that. Now, we want to begin here today. We, I,

you all get to humor me with no labels. No labels is supposedly doing a a third party run for president.

Every number of years, a third party offering rises up.

And probably the most famous is H. Ross Perrault, the billionaire philanthropist he ran for

President of the United States. In 92 and 96, he got 18.9% of the vote in 1992.

Now, I need to pause here and say something that is all but certain to be true, and some of you

will still disagree with it because you've been told one thing for so long you've believed it,

even though it's not true. In 1992, George H.W. Bush lost. It was 43% Bill Clinton,

37.5% Bush, 18.9% age Ross Perot. And a number of Republicans of a certain age to this day insist that had

Ross Perot not entered the race, George H.W. Bush would have won. That's actually not true,

more likely than not. And the reason we know it's not true more likely than not is back in the

early 90s, polling was pretty precise because everybody

had a landline, nobody had cell phones, and you could call everyone, and they would answer

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