For many years now, there’s been an argument over the role of Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election. From which candidate, George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton, did Perot take more votes? In the new New York magazine profile of Al Gore, for the first time that I am aware of, Gore gives his own answer:

In both 1992 and 1996, Bill Clinton and I were very fortunate to have a significant third-party candidate that drew virtually all of his votes from the Republican nominee. By contrast, in 2000, there was a third-party candidate drawing from me.