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Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.
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Clinton easily won primaries nationwide, with margins consistently higher than 80 %.
In New York, however, George Clinton won the election for governor and used the vast state patronage fund to help the Republican cause.
The Democratic-Republicans nominated New York's Governor Clinton to replace Federalist John Adams as vice president, but Adams won.
Dolenz participated in the 2008 – 09 season of CMT's " Gone Country ," competing against fellow celebrities Sheila E ( who eventually won ), Taylor Dayne, George Clinton, and Richard Grieco.
Clinton won a plurality in the popular vote, and a wide Electoral College margin.
Clinton won his first primary in Georgia.
Clinton won the South Carolina and Wyoming primaries and Tsongas won Arizona.
Clinton won the Michigan and Illinois primaries.
Clinton won dramatically in New York ( 41 %– 26 %) and closely in Wisconsin ( 37 %– 34 %).
Clinton won this primary 48 % to 41 % and secured the delegates needed to clinch the nomination.
George Clinton won the votes of only Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, his native New York, and a single elector in Pennsylvania.
Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30. 44 % of the vote to Bush's 30. 39 % ( Clinton won Maine with 38. 77 %); in Utah, Perot received 27. 34 % of the vote to Clinton's 24. 65 % ( Bush won Utah with 43. 36 %).
The county is generally considered a " red county ," with Republicans usually outvoting Democrats in most statewide and national offices ( for instance, in 2004 George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in Cattaraugus County by a 60-40 margin ) though Bill Clinton won the Cattaraugus County very narrowly in 1996.
In statewide elections it has gone for Democrats both Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton won it in 2006 with over 60 % of the vote.
Although Bill Clinton won Grand County in 1992, the county voted for Bob Dole in 1996.
Camacho won, on July 4, 2004, a unanimous ten round decision over Clinton McNeil.
Richard Nixon ( 1960, 1972 ), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice.
Although Democratic presidential candidates have only won the county in four of the last 13 elections ( Kennedy in 1960, Johnson in 1964, Clinton in 1992 and Obama in 2008 ), the races have almost always been close, such as in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won by a landslide nationwide, but by a mere 1 % in Wake County.
Ellis County gave a plurality to Bill Clinton over Bush and Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election, but has been in the Republican column in each of the past four elections, giving 66 percent to Republican John McCain to 32 percent for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 election, higher than the 57 percent McCain won statewide.
The Democratic presidential candidate has won the county in every election since 1992, when George H. W. Bush finished third behind Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.
He won fame for his impressions, particularly of President Bill Clinton, and he stayed on the show for eight seasons.
Clinton and 1992
* Clinton B. Ford ( 1913 – 1992 ), who specialized in the observation of variable stars.
Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent president George H. W. Bush.
Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...
In 1992 nude model and actress Gennifer Flowers stated that she had a relationship with Clinton that began in 1980.
The murder of gay U. S. Navy petty officer Allen R. Schindler, Jr. on October 27, 1992, brought calls from advocates of allowing open service by gays and lesbians for prompt action from the incoming Clinton administration.
The policy was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by President Bill Clinton who campaigned in 1992 on the promise to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation.
In 1992, rumors swirled that Gracen had an affair with Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.
In the wake of economic concerns, he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton.
During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.
However, although he could not get federal funding for empowerment zones passed during his tenure, by 1992 38 states had created empowerment zones, and in 1994 $ 3. 5 billion was approved for them under President Clinton.
In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States.
By the time Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Vince Foster was at the pinnacle of the Arkansas legal establishment,
Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 2008 ), Howard Dean ( 2004 ), Gary Hart ( 1984 and 1988 ), Paul Tsongas ( 1992 ), Pat Robertson ( 1988 ) and Jerry Brown ( 1976, 1980, 1992 ).
* July 9 – Bill Clinton announces his selection of Al Gore as his running mate in the 1992 U. S. presidential election.
** At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton accepts his party's presidential nomination on behalf of the " forgotten middle class ".
* November 3 – United States presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.
** Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
During the 1992 US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton used the Fleetwood Mac hit " Don't Stop " as his campaign theme song, and Nicks joined her band mates to perform the song at Clinton's 1993 Inaugural Gala.
Although the project was canceled before testing in 1992 by the incoming Clinton Administration, the design was thought to achieve thrust-to-weight ratios of 30: 1 and specific impulses of at least 1000 seconds.
The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush ; Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent Texas businessman Ross Perot.
Clinton chose U. S. Senator Al Gore ( D-Tennessee ) to be his running mate on July 9, 1992.
After Bill Clinton secured the Democratic Party's nomination in the spring of 1992, polls showed Ross Perot leading the race, followed by President Bush and Clinton in third place after a grueling nomination process.
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