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Reagan chose Bush to run as the Republican nominee for vice president. Bush accepted the position and threw himself into campaigning for the Reagan-Bush ticket. [22] [23] They won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide victory against the incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
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 ...
George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.
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.
[30] [33] The Buchanan campaign ran a number of radio and TV spots criticizing Bush's policies; in one, Buchanan accused Bush of being a "trade wimp", while another attacked him for presiding over the National Endowment of the Arts, which he said "invested our tax dollars in pornographic and blasphemous art too shocking to show." [34]
In a poll q uestion asking voters to use one word to describe the candidates' performances, the top negative word for Bush was "defensive." "For most incumbents, you want to make the election ...
More than 200 Republicans who worked for former Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, declared their endorsement of Vice ...
More recently, then-Vice President Al Gore, who was considered the superior debater, sighed loudly, rolled his eyes and shook his head during a debate with then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush ahead of ...