1996 Election: Who should win?

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Who will you vote for?

  • Clinton

    Votes: 4 16.0%

  • Dole

    Votes: 6 24.0%

  • Perot

    Votes: 15 60.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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The 1996 election was really the last election in which the opposing candidate had very little chance at winning. Incumbent president Bill Clinton was generally popular, the economy was in a good state, and he had led a moderate administration. With a major Republican congressional resurgence in 1994, the Republicans, under Newt Gingrich, attempted an uncompromising and hardline approach to governing. This became increasingly unpopular, as Gingrich was seen as too partisan by the majority of Americans. One major event that tainted him was a government shutdown, in which most Americans blamed him for having poor conduct. Meanwhile, Clinton had championed welfare reform, Don't Ask Don't Tell, NAFTA, and the 1994 crime bill (including an assault rifle ban supported by former presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan.) He also had moderate scandals and blunders, most notably his failure with his proposed health care reform, which ran into the ground as it was unorganized and difficult to pass through congress. Meanwhile, the Republicans needed a candidate to at least run against him, even though they would lose. These included senate majority leader Bob Dole and paleoconservative Pat Buchanan, with the first option being much more popular due to his orthodox Republican policies such as support of free trade. He struggled to challenge Clinton's policies, as Clinton had pursued a moderate administration with several conservative positions on topics such as free trade, welfare reform, the death penalty, and censorship. Third party candidate from 1992, Ross Perot, once again decided to run in this race, now under the Reform Party. Due to the fact NAFTA was now law, he struggled to gain nearly as much momentum, and would only net himself 8% of the popular vote in the final election. He is the first 3rd party candidate I'm including, as previous ones had not cleared even 3% of the popular vote. Who is your choice?

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Realistically, I would have been soured by that whole super predator shit the clintons invested themselves in, but I guess I'd put my money on the otherwise well meaning health care guy and still go democrat in this one. I also think, i would've voted like a meat-head partisan, because of reagan and bush senior. In general, things were kinda looking up in the 90s, many middle class people didn't take it too seriously then, the wall fell all was good - that's what many fell for.

I really have a blank spot on the republican candidates...
 
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The Dole Kemp and the Clinton Gore campaign sites were the first presidential campaign websites. Without any future knowledge I would have voted for Clinton like everyone else at the time. At the time there wasn't much of a difference between Democrats and Republicans so it didn't really matter who you voted for.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
The Dole Kemp and the Clinton Gore campaign sites were the first presidential campaign websites. Without any future knowledge I would have voted for Clinton like everyone else at the time. At the time there wasn't much of a difference between Democrats and Republicans so it didn't really matter who you voted for.
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Bob Dole's campaign made a video game to go along with the website known as "the Bob Dole Video Game." It was a major scandal, as it was a waste of campaign resources, and included violent imagery such as of Bob Dole killing Bill Clinton with a knife labeled "US deficit."
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
The Dole Kemp and the Clinton Gore campaign sites were the first presidential campaign websites. Without any future knowledge I would have voted for Clinton like everyone else at the time. At the time there wasn't much of a difference between Democrats and Republicans so it didn't really matter who you voted for.
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There's something about 90s websites that makes them charming. I'd vote for Dole/Kemp based on how simple his site is.
 
While Perot is retrospectively the best option, Clinton's natural charisma basically ensures that the average voter will alaways pick him above the others. Coupled with his successful (at the time) policies and the post-Cold War optimism, he's the only realistic option
 
The reason why the GOP kicked ass and took names in 1994 is because people quickly grew tired of Slick Willy and the gay space communism he was trying to implement. The problem was the GOP of 1994 were just as high off their own farts as the DNC of today.

Bill Clinton was called the "first MTV President" but unfortunately it was the MTV in 1994 instead of the one in 1984 that he wanted to make a reality.

Bob Dole never dodged the draft and mostly likely didn't care about black people. He's got my vote.
 
Shroom King said:
The reason why the GOP kicked ass and took names in 1994 is because people quickly grew tired of Slick Willy and the gay space communism he was trying to implement. The problem was the GOP of 1994 were just as high off their own farts as the DNC of today.

Bill Clinton was called the "first MTV President" but unfortunately it was the MTV in 1994 instead of the one in 1984 that he wanted to make a reality.

Bob Dole never dodged the draft and mostly likely didn't care about black people. He's got my vote.
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I know that you're joking, but opposing parties tend to do well in the midterms due to fatigue with the incumbent president. The failed healthcare bill was likely a large factor to their failure in the elections, but it was probably unlikely that the Democrats would have done well anyway.
 
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