A Personal Review Of The 1996 Presidential Election

It’s me, Charlotte. The 1996 Presidential Election was two days ago. The Democrat nominee Bill Clinton, won his second term. His Vice President candidate is Al Gore. He beat the Republican Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. Kemp is Dole’s Vice President candidate. Although Clinton got 379 electoral votes and Dole got 159 electoral votes, the popular vote looks much closer. Clinton got about forty-seven million votes and Dole got about thirty-nine million votes. I think that it is great that lots of people went out to vote. My parents were out all day to vote and run some errands. They never told me who they voted for. Georgia was one of the states that moved away from Clinton in this election compared to the 1992 election. I can’t remember what it was
this time, but in this election, it ended up being a Republican state (16). Dole, the Republican candidate, faced lots of other people for the Republican nomination. Some of the people he had to face were Buchanan, Forbes, Tennessee Governor Alexander, and Keyes. I think that his main opponent was Buchanan because Dole won the Iowa caucus but Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary just eight days later. Dole ended up winning the big primary days and ended up with the nomination. He ended up resigning from the Senate. The third-party candidate for the election was Perot (7). He’s from the Reform Party (16). I think that my parents liked Dole more than they liked Clinton. On a completely different note, Stacy has been trying to show me the texting lingo because it will make me “cooler.” She always tries to send me thinks like “kpc” and “pos” but I always have no clue what she is talking about. Apparently, “kpc” means “keep parents clueless” and “pos” means “parent over shoulder.” There’s lots of other texting shorthand that people use (7).