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Bush's 2.4% popular vote margin is the smallest ever for a re-elected incumbent president surpassing the 1812 election. Bush won three states that have not voted Republican since: Virginia, Colorado, and New Mexico. Virginia had voted Republican in every election from 1968 to 2004 but conversely has voted Democratic in every election since 2008.
[2] [b] Since 1824, the national popular vote has been recorded, [3] though the national popular vote has no direct effect on the winner of the election. [ c ] The following candidates won at least 0.1% of the national popular vote in elections held since 1824, or won at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector .
President Bush's 37.4% was the lowest percentage total for a sitting president seeking re-election since William Howard Taft, also in 1912 (23.2%). [ 91 ] 1992 was, as the 1912 election was, a three-way race (that time between Taft, Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt ).
Bush became the first president since Ronald Reagan in 1980 to see his party gain seats in both Houses of Congress during a presidential election year. Republicans would not win another trifecta until 2016. Future President Barack Obama was elected to the United States Senate in Illinois, and he was elected president in the next presidential ...
In a speech on December 13, in the Texas House of Representatives chamber, [81] Bush said he was reaching across party lines to bridge a divided America, saying, "the President of the United States is the President of every single American, of every race, and every background". During the transition period, Clinton staffers, upset by Gore's ...
Adams was the last member of the Democratic-Republican party elected president and the only member of the National Republican party elected president. [c] T. Coleman Andrews: 1956: States' Rights: 108,956 0.18% Third-party candidate. Bo Gritz: 1992: Populist: 106,152 0.10% Third-party candidate. Thomas Jefferson: 1804: Democratic-Republican ...
President George H. W. Bush in 1991. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1924. [16] In 1964, he ran for the United States Senate from Texas and won the Republican nomination, but lost the election by 56% to 44%.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1996. [3] Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton and his running mate, incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore were re-elected to a second and final term, defeating the Republican ticket of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp and the Reform ticket of ...