ABSTRACT
The 1992 and 1994 elections were stunning and confusing to citizens and pundits alike. The dramatic results of the 1994 campaign scarcely need elaboration: the Republican capture of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in forty years, the simultaneous takeover of the U.S. Senate, and major gains in state and local offices. The outcome was a major setback to the Democrats and an embarrassment for President Bill Clinton who, ironically, had benefited from a similar, if less sweeping, tide in 1992, deposing a sitting Republican president in an unusual three-way race. If elections ever do matter, surely it would be those of 1992 and 1994.
