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Although he did not win any states, Perot managed to finish ahead of one of the major party candidates in two states: In Maine, he received 30.44% of the vote to Bush's 30.39% (Clinton won Maine with 38.77%); in Utah, which Bush won with 43.36% of the popular vote, Perot collected 27.34% of the vote to Clinton's 24.65%. Perot also came in 2nd ...
A 1999 study in the American Journal of Political Science estimated that Perot's candidacy hurt the Clinton campaign, reducing "Clinton's margin of victory over Bush by seven percentage points." [119] In 2016, FiveThirtyEight described the speculation that Perot was a spoiler as "unlikely". [120]
Perot ran for president again in 1996, establishing the Reform Party as a vehicle for his campaign. He won 8.4 percent of the popular vote against President Clinton and Republican nominee Bob Dole .
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1996. 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 ...
DeWitt Clinton [d] 1816: James Monroe† Rufus King [e] 1820: James Monroe† No opponent [f] Year Democratic-Republican candidate Democratic-Republican candidate Other candidate(s) 1824: Andrew Jackson‡ [g] John Quincy Adams† [g] William H. Crawford (Democratic-Republican) Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican) Year Democratic candidate ...
The 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, the then-governor of Arkansas, was announced on October 3, 1991, at the Old State House in Little Rock, Arkansas. [2] After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 1992, the campaign announced that then-junior U.S. senator from Tennessee, Al Gore, would be Clinton's running mate.
[115] [116] Upon Perot's re-entrance in the race, Clinton was leading over both Bush and Perot. [117] Bush waves from the train outside of Bowling Green during his whistle-stop campaign. In late September, during a rally in Springfield, Missouri, Bush said: I hear candidate Clinton is up in Michigan today talking about debates.
Clinton ultimately won the national vote, defeating both incumbent President Bush and Perot. [3] Perot's 30.44% would prove Maine as his strongest state in the 1992 election. [4] Ross Perot came within 4.55% of winning an electoral vote in Maine's second congressional district, the closest he came to winning an electoral vote.