Election '92 may have been God's way of telling Ross Perot he had too much money, but the diminutive Texan with the big ears and the bar charts did win a serious, double-digit share of the vote. The effort cost him more than $60 million -- enough to give even a billionaire pause -- and he failed to carry a single state. Yet along the way, Perot helped focus and energize the race, and provided lessons for future independent candidates, possibly including himself:
1. Money isn't everything. The fact that Perot's candidacy was almost entirely self-financed allowed him to claim he...
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