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Perot was running close before he dropped out in 1992 by Flann
He never got his full momentum back when he reentered the race. The linked Washington Post article put Perot at 38%, Bush at 30%, and Clinton at 26% among likely voters in June 1992. Others polls at the time had Perot a close 2nd to Bush. Perot was sliding some in the polls when he dropped out in July, but he likely would have had a much stronger showing if he had not dropped out and entered which caused voters to view him as flaky.