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If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. President Rutherford B. Hayes, c. Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. Benjamin Harrison served as President of the United States from to Bush acknowledges the cheers of supporters following his acceptance speech in the House of Representatives Chambers at the State Capitol Dec.
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Subject Person. End Date. Start Date. Subject Geog Full Text. Description Place Made. Provenance Gifter. Title Item Name. Source Full Text. Contributor Full Text. Subject Organization Full Text. Subject Person Full Text. Object Type. However, in North America, the lumbering savings and loans industry was beginning to collapse, leading to a savings and loan crisis, which put the financial well-being of millions of Americans in jeopardy.
The panic that followed led to a sharp recession through financial contagion, which hit hardest in those countries most closely linked to the United States, including Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The economies of much of Europe and Japan were also hurt, but not as badly. The U. The first burst of the recession was short-lived, as fervent pre-election activity by the governments of the United States and Canada created what many economists at the time saw as an economic miracle— a growing consumer confidence and increased consumer spending almost single-handedly lifted the North American economy out of recession.
It soon turned out that the quick recovery was illusory, and by , economic malaise had returned with the beginning of the Gulf War and the resulting spike in the price of oil, which increased inflation albeit to less of a degree than did the oil crisis of ten years earlier. Nevertheless, for the next several years, high unemployment, massive government budgetary deficits, and slow Gross Domestic Product GDP growth affected the United States until late , and Canada until The rest of the world was less affected by the downturn; Germany and Japan both grew rapidly.
While the election campaign of George H. Bush in the United States may have been aided by the brief recovery of , he could not hold on to power through the last part of the recession.
Recession in the U. The presidential election featured Republican President George H. In the election, Clinton won a plurality in the popular vote and a wide Electoral College margin. By , many had come to doubt that President George H. He had alienated conservative Republicans by breaking his pledge not to raise taxes, and some faulted him for failing to remove Saddam Hussein from power during Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War. The economy was also in a recession, contributing to discontent among many Americans.
Furthermore, despite living much of his adult life in Texas, he could not overcome the stereotypes associated with his privileged New England and Ivy League background, which hurt him among working-class Reagan Democrats. Clinton chose U. Senator Al Gore, a Democrat from Tennessee, as his running mate.
Selecting fellow southerner Gore went against the popular strategy of balancing a southern candidate with a northern partner. Gore, however, did balance the ticket in other significant ways, as he was perceived to be strong on family values and environmental issues, while Clinton was not. During his campaign, Bill Clinton described himself as a New Democrat, a member of a faction of the Democratic Party that, like the Republicans, favored free trade and deregulation.
He tried to appeal to the middle class by promising higher taxes on the rich and reform of the welfare system. Bush in the presidential election. In early , the race took an unexpected twist when Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot launched a third party bid, claiming that neither Republicans nor Democrats could eliminate the deficit and make the government more efficient. Perot later bowed out of the race for a short time, then reentered. Clinton originally led in the polls, until Perot reentered and tightened the race significantly.
Nearing election day, polls suggested that the race was a dead-heat. Ross Perot : In , Ross Perot got the highest percentage of the popular vote of any third party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in His support drew equally from both major candidates, according to exit polls.
In the entire country, only Washington, D. Taft won It was also the lowest percentage for a major-party candidate since Alf Landon received only Electoral College results, : Presidential election results map.
Privacy Policy. Skip to main content. Bush, Clinton, and a Changing World. Search for:. Blue became more consistently used for Democrats and red for Republicans. Bush—that those colors became synonymous with the name of each party. The election between Gore and Bush was a momentous event for American politics.
The election became a constitutional crisis and dragged on for 36 days, leading to constant television and newspaper coverage of recounts and debates over which candidate won each swing state. It was also during this election that the New York Times and USA Today ran their first full-color electoral state maps featuring red for Republican and blue for Democrat. Do you know where the Democrat and Republican Parties got their names?
Find out here. But why these particular colors? As the Washington Post notes, that punchline was notable in that it prompted the viewer to internalize the color affiliation without its explicit definition. By the time the election was called for Bush in mid-December, red and blue for Republicans and Democrats, respectively, became canon. Today, these terms are used to refer to which party a state voted for during a presidential election.
Generally speaking, the Northeast and the West Coast are considered a collection of blue states as most of them have sided with the Democrats since the early s.
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