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The Laziness of Chris Matthews
On his show today, Matthews, in a discussion of a potential independent presidential campaign by Michael Bloomberg, repeatedly asserted that Ross Perot took votes away from Bush in 1992 and implied that he handed the race to Clinton. Nobody disagreed.
Though this is an old GOP talking point, actual exit polling indicates that Perot's vote would have split about 50/50 between the two major party candidates in a two-person race.
As always, Matthews was just making stuff up. As always his guests, who are cut from very much the same cloth, let him.