History of the United States II / Unit 16 USH2 2293 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1992
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The idea
In nineteen ninety-two Arkansas governor Bill Clinton won with forty-three percent of the popular vote and three hundred seventy electoral votes to Bush's one hundred eighty-eight.
In practice
Ross Perot taking nineteen percent, the best third-party showing since nineteen twelve, the anchor records.
Where people slip
Bush, at ninety percent approval after the Gulf War, won thirty-eight percent, Digital History notes, amid a stagnating economy.
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