The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates:Republican President George H. W. Bush; Democrat Governor Bill Clinton, and independent businessman Ross Perot.
Bush had alienated much of his conservative base by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, the economy was in a recession, and Bush's perceived greatest strength, foreign policy, was regarded as much less important following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the relatively peaceful climate in the Middle East after the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.
Clinton won a plurality in
the popular vote,
and a wide Electoral
College margin.
