{"id":341,"date":"2021-03-30T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/?p=341"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:26:01","slug":"general-election-1992-election-and-the-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/general-election-a-quest-for-electors-2020\/general-election-1992-election-and-the-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"General Election: 1992 Election and the Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1992 election: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/United-States-presidential-election-of-1992\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/United-States-presidential-election-of-1992<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">This article gives a great overview of the 1992 election and emphasizes several important points we\u2019ve covered in class.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bill Clinton (Democrat) defeated George HW Bush (Republican incumbent), as well as Ross Perot (third party independent candidate).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>While Clinton won the electoral college fairly handily (370 electors against 168 for Bush and 0 for Perot), this election was notable for the popularity of third-party candidate Ross Perot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Despite clearly winning a majority of electors, Clinton only won 43% of the popular vote (compared to Bush\u2019s 37.4% and Perot\u2019s 18.9%).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 Some may argue t<\/span>hese election results reinforce support for the electoral college &#8211; in the event a Presidential candidate only garners a plurality of the popular vote (and not a majority), the electoral college provides a method of measurement that lends a majority of support to a candidate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>While this election method may reinforce a two-party system, and prevent third-party candidates from having a viable chance at winning the Presidency, there may be value in maintaining a system that prevents a candidate from winning election based on a mere plurality of the popular electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1992 election: https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/United-States-presidential-election-of-1992 This article gives a great overview of the 1992 election and emphasizes several important points we\u2019ve covered in class.\u00a0 Bill Clinton (Democrat) defeated George HW Bush (Republican incumbent), as well as Ross Perot (third party independent candidate).\u00a0 While Clinton won the electoral college fairly handily (370 electors against 168 for Bush and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-election-a-quest-for-electors-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}