As innocent a gesture as that might seem, to apparently look impatiently at your watch just screamed to the attending audience and those watching on television ‘when the hell is this going to be over?’ The fact that he did this after being asked about the effect of the national debt on him personally sealed his fate.
People have long argued that having Ross Perot running an independent campaign in the 1992 presidential election might have taken some votes that would otherwise have gone to Bush, something Bush himself complained about. However, apart from the ailing economy and the high unemployment rate, his impatient look at the watch is still considered a major factor in Bush’s defeat.
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