1992 United States presidential election
The 1992 United States presidential election happened on November 3, 1992. Bill Clinton, the Democratic candidate and Governor of Arkansas, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, who was a Republican, and Ross Perot, an independent candidate.
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Clinton got 370 electoral votes, Bush got 168, and Perot got 0. A person running for president needs to get 270 to win.
George H.W. Bush may have lost the election for several reasons. He broke his promise of "Read my lips: no new taxes" by increasing taxes during his term. 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 issue, since the economy was bad.
Prior to 2020, this was the last election where a candidate won the presidency without winning Florida.
Candidates
Republican Party
Republican candidates
- George H. W. Bush, President of the United States from Texas
- Pat Buchanan, conservative columnist from Virginia
- David Duke, state representative from Louisiana
- Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota and perennial candidate
Candidates gallery
Governor Jerry Brown of California
Former Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts
Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska
Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa
Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota
Democratic Party
Democratic candidates
- Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas
- Jerry Brown, former Governor of California
- Paul Tsongas, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Bob Kerrey, U.S. Senator from Nebraska
- Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Douglas Wilder, Governor of Virginia
- Eugene McCarthy, former U.S. Senator from Minnesota
- Larry Agran, former Mayor of Irvine, California
1992 United States Presidential Election Media
Democratic Party (United States)
- AlGore,VicePresidentoftheUnitedStates,officialportrait
Clinton Gore 1992 logo
Jerry Brown
A man standing next to a granite bobbin sculpture.* * Keywords: Lowell; Sculpture; Tsongas; Bobbin
Official portrait from Harkin's website
Portrait of U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE)
Jerry Brown 1992 Campaign Logo
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Other websites
References
- ↑ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved October 21, 2012.