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Talk:United States presidential election, 1992 (view source)
Revision as of 00:40, September 11, 2009
, 00:40, September 11, 2009backlash
== a backlash against 12 years of a conservative presidency==
== a backlash against 12 years of a conservative presidency==
This is disputable; Clinton only got 42% and a deficit hawk like Perot can hardly be considered un-conservative. It simply was Democrats winning out in the bidding war for domestic spending priorities in the post-Cold War era. Republicans and conservatives can never out-bid or out spend Democrats and liberals on domestic social spending. [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 20:39, 10 September 2009 (EDT)
This is disputable; Clinton only got 42% and a deficit hawk like Perot can hardly be considered un-conservative. It simply was Democrats winning out in the bidding war for domestic spending priorities in the post-Cold War era. Republicans and conservatives can never out-bid or out spend Democrats and liberals on domestic social spending. [[User:RobSmith|Rob Smith]] 20:39, 10 September 2009 (EDT)
::the backlash was seen in Bush's very poor showing--he lost millions of votes he had won in 1992. The analysis is from Lipset, one of the leading conservative political scientists.