"The important thing to remember is that your vote DOES count. Just think back to when Gore lost and George W won the election. Do you think Ross Perot had anything to do with the end result??"

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Perot ran in 1992 and 1996, but not in 2000. He stayed out of the Reform Party nomination process that year. It was Nader who caused Gore to lose in 2000 if you consider that Nader garnered something like 17,000 votes there and due to the recount, Gore lost by like 500 votes there.

From Wikipedia:

In the 2000 presidential election, Perot refused to become openly involved in the dispute inside the Reform Party between supporters of Pat Buchanan and of John Hagelin. Perot was reportedly unhappy with how the party was disintegrating, and how he was being portrayed in the press, and chose to remain quiet on the election at that time. He appeared on Larry King Live four days before the election, and endorsed George W. Bush for President.

Steve