Government Issues

The 1992 president election of Governor William Clinton and President George Bush was a prime example of what issues can affect the outcome of a president election. The position and valence issues took a major toll on both of these opponents declaring Clinton as the 1992 election winner. Although the Republican Party was fairly strong during the term of President Bush the tax issue caused a near down fall, which caused the Democratic Party to bring in a new face.

The first issue that had affected the Clinton and Bush election through a valence outlook would be the decline from the economy. The 1992 election was more of “economy election”, meaning that most of the issues faced were about the economy of the United States. Take for instance, many people in the early 90s felt as though the economy was beginning to drop and decided to vote for Clinton, who was a new face with great potential, instead of the incumbent President Bush who had recently raised taxes and was being what most Americans were calling the “cause of the decline in the economy”.

Although position issues was not a enormous part of the 1992 election, Clintons