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President Bill Clinton wins 1st election...
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November 04, 1992
THE PRESS, Atlantic City, New Jersey, November 4, 1992
* President Bill Clinton wins 1st election
This 4 section, 40+ page newspaper has a five column headline on the front page: "It's Clinton" with related photo and smaller headlines. More inside.
Nice condition.
wikipedia notes: 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. Because Bush's approval ratings were in the 80% range during the Gulf War, he was described as "unbeatable." However, when Bush compromised with Democrats in an attempt to lower Federal deficits, he reneged on his promise not to raise taxes, hurting his approval rating. Clinton repeatedly condemned Bush for making a promise he failed to keep.[19] By election time, the economy was souring and Bush saw his approval rating plummet to slightly over 40%.[20][19] Finally, conservatives were previously united by anti-communism, but with the end of the Cold War, the party lacked a uniting issue. When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention, with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform, many moderates were alienated.[21] Clinton then pointed to his moderate, "New Democrat" record as governor of Arkansas, though some on the more liberal side of the party remained suspicious.[22] Many Democrats who supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their allegiance to Clinton.[23]
His election ended twelve years of Republican rule of the White House, and twenty of the previous twenty four years. The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress.[1] Clinton was the first president to enjoy this windfall since Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s.
However, during the campaign questions of conflict of interest regarding state business and the politically powerful Rose Law Firm, at which Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner, arose. Clinton maintained questions were moot because all transactions with the state were deducted prior to determining Hillary's firm pay.[24][13] Further concern arose when Bill Clinton announced that voters would be getting two presidents "for the price of one".
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