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blue47 (12)
02/16/2007
Quayle is as dumb as GW Bush. What a ticket.

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GenghisTheHun (168)
02/15/2007
Bumbling and stumbling the Bush/Quayle campaign was looking up when Perot pulled out of the race. Then Perot got back in, and that was all she wrote. Clinton won with about 41% of the popular vote.

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Enkidu (37)
02/15/2007
Not surprising. Quayle was a liability: Clinton was brilliant, charismatic, inspiring, and was the moderate that the electorate wanted (in spite of the shrill rhetoric from the right, who insists that anything to the left of wherever they are is a "leftist" -- LOL) In retrospect I think GB the elder wasn't a bad president at all, but I too was excited by Clinton, and wanted to see some change from the Reagan/Bush years, with their irresponsible 12-year runup of the national debt.

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Victor83 (35)
02/15/2007
No surprise here at all. Clinton was charismatic, coming across as vibrant while passing himself off as a moderate Democrat. Conversely, Bush was dull and his approval ratings were only in the high 60's among registered Republicans in 1992.

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irishgit (138)
02/08/2007
Quite possibly the worst campaign by an incumbent president in the Twentieth Century, if not in history. Arrogant and incompetent, the campaign staff clearly missed the guidance and brilliance of the deceased Lee Atwater.

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abichara (60)
05/18/2006
If it had been a year earlier, yes, I would been surprised to see George H.W. Bush lose re-election, especially in light of his very high poll ratings after the first Gulf War. But economic troubles really took a toll on Bush's popularity in 1992. Bill Clinton ran on an economic platform, which included deficit reduction and economic stimulus and managed to pull off a victory. What killed Bush's political chances was the perception that he didn't understand the strain which the tough economic times was creating on the lower and middle classes. Clinton, despite his many political weaknesses, rode that perception into the White House, albeit with only 43% of the vote.

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jgls (12)
09/05/2004
i thought this was over after the democratic convention. clinton had the look and feel of a winner and the people wanted to make a change. almost 62% of voters on election day voted against the incumbent president. even that nutty pipsqueak ross perot got 19% of the vote. even with clinton's considerable baggage, he won handily.

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EschewObfuscation (61)
09/02/2004
After the democratic convention and the huge bounce Clinton received, Bush disappeared and paid too close attention to the polls, which showed Clinton with a 17% lead in the popular vote. Ross Perot, who hated George Bush from their days in the Reagan Administration, ran as a third party candidate, splitting the moderate republican vote and assuring the Clinton upset.

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