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the state because of guns and my veto of the partial-birth abortion
bill. In Missouri, the samfactors cut my victory margin almost in half,
from 10 to 6 percent. I still got a majority in
e
Arkansas, but my'Painting From Photo '
(http://www.oilpaintingscn.com/page.html?id=18), victory margin was
slightly smaller than in 1992; in Tennessee, the margin
do, I
in the
ause, as in Colorado, 'Painting From Photo '
(http://www.oilpaintingscn.com/),the lower vote for Perot meant more
votes for Senator Dole than for me.
s the
. I was disappointed to lose Georgia, but glad that Max
Cleland survived by getting a'oil painting wholesale'
(http://www.oilpaintingscn.com), few more white votes than 'wholesale
oil painting' (http://www.oilpaintingscn.com),I did. The South was
tough because
or
t scientific evidence that it was safe to do so, and the constant
publicity my
position received thanks to my friend and Georgetown classmate Brian
Greenspun, the
nd
arried couples in the
South, the intermountain West, and the rural Midwest, and among white
men all across the
d of the job I was doing.
was cut from 4.5 to 2.5 percent. In Kentucky, tobacco and guns cut our
margin from 3 to 1 percent. For the same reasons, though I was ahead in
North Carolina all the way to the end, I lost by 3 percent. In
Colorawent from a 4 percent victory in 1992 to a 1.5 percent loss
because the ��92 Perot votersWest were more likely to vote Republican
in ��96 and because the Republicans had gained 100,000 registered
voters on the Democrats since 1992, partly as a result of the large
number of Christian Right organizations that had located their
headquarters in the state. In Montana, Ilost this time around largely
bec
In Georgia, the last poll had me ahead by 4 percent; I lost by 1
percent. The Christian Coalition deserved a lot of credit for that; in
'Michael Jackson painting' (http://tinyurl.com/yl6d2ve),1992, they had
cut my margin from 6 percent to under 1 percent with heavy distribution
of their ��voting guides�� in conservative churcheSunday before the
election. Democrats had worked black churches like that for years, but
the Christian Coalition, at least in Georgia, was particularly
effective at it, changing the outcome by 5 percent in both 1992 and
1996
of the cultural issues; the only southern state to give me a
substantially larger victory marginin 1996 was Louisiana, which went
from 4.5 to 12 percent. By contrast, my winning percentage increased a
good deal in less culturally conservative ormore economically sensitive
states. My margin over the Republicans was up 10 percent more in 1996
over 1992 in Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
York, and Rhode Island. We held on to our big ��92 margins in Illinois,
Minnesota, Maryland, and California, and substantially increased the
edge in Michigan and Ohio. Despite the gun issue, I also gained 10
percent over my ��92 margin in New Hampshire. And I held on for a 1
percent victory in Nevada, largely because of my opposition to dumping
America��s nuclear waste there withou
president and editor of theLas Vegas Sun, who felt passionately about
the issue. On balance, I was happy with the results. I had won more
electoral votes than in 1992, afour of the seven Senate candidates I
had campaigned for won: Tom Harkin, Tim Johnson, John Kerry, and, in
Louisiana, Mary Landrieu. But the fact that my share of the vote was
considerably lower than my job rating, my personal approval rating, the
percentage of people who said they felt comfortable with my presidency,
was a sober reminder of the power of cultural issues like guns, gays,
and abortion, especially among white m
country. All I could do was to keep searching for common ground, keep
trying to temper the bitter partisanship in Washington, and keep doing
my best as President. The atmosphere at the victory rally at the Old
State House in Little Rock was quite different this time around. The
crowd was still large, but the celebration was marked not so much by
shouting exuberance as by a genuine happiness that our nation was in
better shape and that the American people had approve
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