1992 Election Clinton wins 370 168 43 to
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1992 Election • Clinton wins 370 -168 • 43% to 37 to 19
Bill Clinton “Man from HOPE” • Georgetown, Rhodes scholar, Yale Law School – ROTC • POLITICAL CAREER- back to Arkansas – Ran for Congress 1974 – Won Attorney General 1976 – Governor 1978 – Lost in 1980, won in 1982
Clinton • Runs for President 1992 – No BIG names among Democrats – ROTC, women • • Wins Nomination but way behind Ross Perot Convention Republican Convention- too conservative – Quayle beats Gore – Town Hall Debate – Iran Contra
1992 wins 32 of 50 states
1992 Congress • • 1992 House of Representatives Democrats lose 9 seats 258 -176 • Senate • No Change 56 -44 (each side won 2, lost 2) • CA, WI goes Democrat • GA, NC goes Republican
1994 • Senate • Republicans pick up 8 seats +1 (AL) • Gain Majority 53, -47 (52 -48) – Pick up AZ, MA, MI, OH, OK, PN, TN – AL senator Shelby switched parties
1994 House • Republcians pick up 54 seats • 230 -204 Republican (up from 176) • First time since 1954 – Universal health care, gun ban – Contract with America – Ways and Means and Judiciary Chairs lose – NO Republican incumbents lost – 34 Democrat incumbents lost – 67% of Perot voters went Republican
Contract With America • Nationalized the race • Promised a vote on issues like Term Limits, super-majority for tax increases, Congress live under the law
Newt Gingrich • Georgia Congressman – History Professor at West Georgia College – Defeated in 1974, 1976 wins in 1978 – Affluent, well-educated district • Partisan – Blames liberal policies for destroying lives of the poor – Believes in a strong military – Capitalism – Technology
NEWT • Impolite • “battering ram” • Takes on the Speaker- twice – O’Neill – Jim Wright, 1987, ousted in 1989 • Elected Minority Whip 1989 – Won 87 -85 – Robert Michel (Minority Leader) – Barely won own re-election in 1990 and 1992
Clinton wins 1996 • Defeats Dole 379 -159 • 49. 2% of vote
1996 Election • House – Republicans lose 8 – Still lead 228 -206 • Senate – Republicans gain 2 – Lead now 55 -45
1998 • • Six Year Itch 1934 President loses seats in Mid-Term Scandal YET- Democrats gain 5 seats – 223 -211 – Republicans blame Gingrich and he is out – Hastert becomes Speaker
