1992 Clinton VS. Bush VS. Perot

"Best Person Independent"

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Museum of the Moving Image
The Living Room Candidate
"Best Person," Perot, 1992

PEROT: Pretty simply: who's the best qualified person up here on the stage to create jobs? Make your decision and vote on November the third. I suggest you might consider somebody who's created jobs.

Second: who's the best person to manage money? I suggest you pick a person who's successfully managed money. Who's the best person to get results, and not talk? Look at the record, and make your decision.

And, finally, who would you give your pension fund and your savings to to manage? And the last one: Who would you ask to be the trustee of your estate and take care of your children if something happened to you?

Finally, to you students up there: God bless you. I'm doing this for you. I want you to have the American dream.

(Applause)

And to the American people - to the American people - I'm doing this because I love you. That's it.

[TEXT: Perot for President]

Credits

"Best Person Independent," The Reform Party, 1992

From Museum of the Moving Image, The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012.
www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1992/best-person-independent (accessed June 8, 2025).

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1992 Clinton Bush Perot Results

George Bush, the incumbent president, enjoyed approval ratings near 90 percent following America’s decisive military victory in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Many leading Democrats, including New York Governor Mario Cuomo, declined to run, and the party’s nomination went to Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas. By early 1992, the U.S. economy was faltering, and Clinton’s campaign decided to focus almost exclusively on this issue. A prominently placed sign in Clinton’s campaign headquarters read "It’s the economy, stupid!" Ironically, because of the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, which the Republicans took credit for, the Cold War was not an important issue during the campaign, and the Democrats were able to keep the emphasis on domestic concerns. The importance of the economy as an issue was amplified by the surprisingly successful third-party candidacy of billionaire Ross Perot, whose campaign concentrated on deficit reduction.

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