ABSTRACT
In an election year that some commentators asserted produced the dullest and least exciting presidential campaign in many decades, there were nonetheless a number of noteworthy features in the final voting returns. President Bill Clinton, the Democratic nominee, won a decisive victory over former Senator Bob Dole, his Republican opponent, and Ross Perot, the candidate of the Reform Party. Clinton carried thirty-one of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, and won 379 electoral votes to 159 for Dole. Clinton's victory marked the first time since 1936 that a Democratic president had been elected to a second full term. And he was only the fourth Democratic president in history—along with Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Andrew Jackson—to win two consecutive presidential terms. 1
