The 1996 United States presidential election was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee, and Ross Perot, the Reform Party nominee. Dole won 40. 7% of the popular vote and 159 electoral votes, while Perot won 8. 4%. Turnout was registered at 49. 0%, the lowest for a presidential election since 1924.
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The 1996 United States presidential election was the 53rd quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee, and Ross Perot, the Reform Party nominee. Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were re-nominated without incident by the Democratic Party. Dole won 40. 7% of the popular vote and 159 electoral votes, while Perot won 8. 4%. Turnout was registered at 49. 0%, the lowest for a presidential election since 1924. The Republican Party was able to maintain a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Republicans of the 104th Congress pursued an ambitious agenda, highlighted by their Contract with America, but were often forced to compromise with President Clinton, who wielded veto power. A budget impasse between Congress and the Clinton Administration eventually resulted in a government shutdown, which caused temporary shutdowns in many areas of federal government service. More attention was drawn to the race by the budget stalemate in 1995 between the President and the Congress which led to slowdowns and slowdowns in federal service. The race was closely watched by the media, with Dole considered the early front-runner. The fragmented field of candidates debated issues such as a flat tax and other tax cut proposals, and a return to supply-side economic policies popularized by Ronald Reagan. Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win two straight presidential elections, while Dole’s age was a persistent issue in the election, and gaffes by Dole exacerbated the issue for his campaign.
In 1995, the Republicans, led by whip Newt Gingrich, captured the majority of seats in the House for the first time in forty years. In 1996, Clinton and incumbent Vice President al Gore were renominated with token opposition at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. The Democratic Party nominated Clinton and Gore without incident, and he won re-election with a substantial margin in thepopular vote and the Electoral College. The election was held on November 5, 1996, and Clinton was re-elected as President of the U.S. with a majority of the votes cast in the general election. The next day, Clinton was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States and the first African-American president. He was also the first Democratic president to serve a full term in the White House, and the second to serve two terms as vice president. In the 1996 election, Clinton won the presidency by a margin of more than 20 percentage points over his Republican challenger, Al Gore. The 1996 presidential election saw a number of Republican candidates enter the field to challenge the incumbent Democratic President, Bill Clinton. Former Army General Colin Powell had run for President as a Democrat in 1988. Former U. S. Senate nominee Paul Simon was the most losing Republican nominee for the Senate in 1995, but withdrew before the Iowa caucuses as polls showed her languishing behind Clinton. Also running for President was John Anderson, who had served as a Republican candidate in 1988 and was defeated by S. Simon in 1990.
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