Also, his 19% of the popular vote was the highest ever percent of the popular vote for a candidate who did not win any electoral votes. Clinton's election ended an era in which the Republican Party had controlled the White House for 12 consecutive years, and for 20 of the previous 24 years. Dodge and Ormsby drew 935 votes. Reelected in 1996, Clinton would become the first Democratic President since Franklin D. Roosevelt to serve two full terms in the White House. [5] Perot crusaded against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and internal and external national debt, tapping into voters' potential fear of the deficit. The Texas billionaire entered the race in March 1992 and campaigned on balancing the federal budget and a re-commitment to the war on drugs. 1992 was arguably a political realignment election. Many character issues were raised during the campaign, including allegations that Clinton had dodged the draft during the Vietnam War, and had used marijuana, which Clinton claimed he had pretended to smoke, but "didn't inhale." [36] State exit polls suggested that Perot did not alter the electoral college count, except potentially in one state (Ohio), which nonetheless showed a result in the margin of error. Bush could have lost the election for several reasons. Clinton clinched the nomination by June and joined vice presidential candidate and Tennessee Senator Al Gore on the Democratic ticket. George H.W. [24] Clinton denied ever having an affair with Flowers.[25]. Bob Kerrey dropped out two days later. By June 1992, Perot led the Gallup Poll with 39% of respondents to Bush’s 31% and Clinton’s 25%. The election was the most recent in which Georgia and Montana voted for the Democratic candidate, the last time the state of Florida backed the losing candidate until the 2020 election, and the last time that Colorado voted Democratic until 2008. As a result, several high-profile candidates, such as Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson, refused to seek the Democratic nomination.
VRS Election Day Exit Poll 1992, Nov, 1992 [survey question]. Despite the advice of several liberal and environmental groups, Nader did not formally run. Clinton got 370 Electoral votes, Bush got 168, and Perot got 0. Clinton would later win the state in 1996 by eighteen points; like Vermont, Republicans have not won the state since. Source (Electoral Vote): "Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996". Masters drew 327 votes. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, NBC News.
Taegan Goddard also runs Political Wire, Political Job Hunt and the Political Dictionary. Even though Clinton roughly received 3.1 million more votes than Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis had four years earlier, the Democrats recorded a 2.6 percentage point decrease in their share of the popular vote compared to 1988 due to the higher turnout.
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Los Angeles Times. Clinton rebutted the story by appearing on 60 Minutes with his wife, Hillary Clinton. Allen C. McCone was his running-mate. The newly formed Natural Law Party nominated scientist and researcher John Hagelin for President and Mike Tompkins for Vice President. California electoral votes now >10% of total; greatest concentration since New York in 1868; Independent candidate H. Ross Perot received 19,741,065 votes, most ever for a 3rd party candidate, but no Electoral Votes In all three debates, Bush attempted to discredit Clinton by criticizing his draft record, stories about his behavior, and alleged fluidity on policy. Though running an Independent campaign under the label "Campaign for a Better Tomorrow", Daniels was endorsed by a number of third parties across the states, most notably the Peace and Freedom Party of California; though he had lost that party's presidential primary to Lenora Fulani, the nominee of the New Alliance Party, the delegates at its convention voted in favor of his candidacy 110–91, the only time it has ever nominated someone other than the winner of the primary.
Clinton, a leader of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, established himself as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination by sweeping the Super Tuesday primaries. The election also brought the Democrats full control of the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, including both houses of U.S. Congress and the presidency, for the first time since the administration of the last Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. Harkin dropped out. With intense pressure on the Buchanan delegates to relent, the tally for president went as follows: Vice President Dan Quayle was renominated by voice vote. Bush was the last president voted out of office after one term until Donald Trump in 2020, as Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama were all re-elected to second terms in office. [7] As a result, several thousand Democrats and Republicans wrote-in Nader's name. Film footage of Gore speech on the election campaign trail, United States presidential election, 1992, 1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1992 Republican Party presidential primaries, 6th Libertarian Party National Convention, Franklin child prostitution ring allegations, National Archives and Records Administration, 1992 United States gubernatorial elections, 1992 United States House of Representatives elections, "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections", "Clinton Selects Senator Gore Of Tennessee As Running Mate", "The 1992 Campaign: On the Trail; Poll Gives Perot a Clear Lead", "The 1992 Campaign: The Overview; Perot Says He Quit In July To Thwart G.O.P. Phillips had been unofficially nominated earlier in the year so as to allow the Party to be able to seek ballot access properly. What If All States Split Their Electoral Votes. [14] The Clinton campaign received the biggest convention "bounce" in history[15] which brought him from 25 percent in the spring, behind Bush and Perot, to 55 percent versus Bush's 31 percent.
The three main people running were: George H. W. Bush, a Republican from Texas and the President; Bill Clinton, who was a Democrat and Governor of Arkansas; and Ross Perot an Independent candidate.
The public's concern about the federal budget deficit and fears of professional politicians allowed the independent candidacy of billionaire Texan Ross Perot to explode on the scene in dramatic fashion—at one point Perot was leading the major party candidates in the polls. Marrou and Lord drew 291,627 votes (0.28% of the popular vote). This predates the 2012 trillion dollar coin concept.
Warren received 22,882 votes (<0.1% of the popular vote). Voter discontent with the Democratic and Republican parties along with the rise of economic issues encouraged Ross Perot to enter the race as an independent. No one, however, announced any intention to seek the Taxpayers Party nomination; Buchanan himself in the end endorsed President Bush at the Republican National Convention in Houston. Bush focused on his administration’s oversight of the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War.
This was also the last election where Colorado voted Democratic until 2008. 2020 Presidential Election Interactive Map.
Los Angeles Times [producer]. Drew Bradford was an Independent candidate for the Presidency; he did not have a running-mate. He re-entered on October 1 and deployed campaign infomercials and other marketing tools to promote his economic policies. Some of his most well-known accomplishments during his presidency came from his foreign policy, and because of the Cold War and Gulf War being over, foreign policy became a smaller issue, as the economy became a bigger issues, since the economy was bad. That quickly changed however, when a woman named Gennifer Flowers appeared in the press to reveal allegations of an affair. In addition, he organized significant numbers of young voters and became a symbol of the rise of the Baby Boomer generation to political power. The 1992 campaign also marked the entry of Ralph Nader into presidential politics as a candidate. He was still relatively unknown nationally before the primary season. Only Washington, D.C. and Clinton's home state of Arkansas gave the majority of their votes to a single candidate in the entire country; the rest were won by pluralities of the vote. The election was the last time that a member of either party won the presidency without winning Florida until 2020. [12] As Governor Clinton's nomination acceptance speech approached, Ross Perot dropped out of the race, convinced that staying in the race with a "revitalized Democratic Party" would cause the race to be decided by the United States House of Representatives. Despite accusations of infidelity and draft dodging during the primaries, most Americans were not familiar with Clinton. He received 106,152 votes nationwide (0.1% of the popular vote). Clinton’s campaign gained momentum from a second-place finish in New Hampshire that carried over into substantial victories in March’s Southern primaries. Pressured by rising budget deficits, Bush agreed to a budget compromise with Congress which raised taxes. Perot's almost 19% of the popular vote made him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. Notes: Survey by Voter Research & Surveys, a consortium of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News. Boren and Weidman drew 956 votes. The Workers World Party nominated Gloria La Riva for President and Larry Holmes for Vice President. Buchanan’s focus on social policies including ending abortion and limiting immigration allowed the candidate to stay competitive into the March primaries. His 43% share of the popular vote was the second-lowest for any winning candidate in the 20th century after Woodrow Wilson in 1912 (41.8%). After the convention, Clinton and Gore began a bus tour around the United States, while the Bush/Quayle campaign began to criticize Clinton's character, highlighting accusations of infidelity and draft dodging.
Ballot Access: Michigan, New Jersey (33 Electoral).
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