HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 67: Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Senator bob dole of kansas, majority leader of senate became clinton"s. Campaign proposed 15% tax cut never captured voter imagination. Character attacks and massive campaign spending by both sides did little to bring more people to the polls; turnout dropped below 50% of eligible voters. Clinton-gore ticket won 279 electoral votes, while dole and jack kemp captured. Ross perot ran again by had little impact on the election. Clinton = first democrat since franklin roosevelt to be reelected. Republicans maintained control of both houses of congress first time since. The technology boom longest peacetime economic expansion during clinton presidency. Annual growth rates of more than 4% technological innovations in personal computers, software, the internet, cable, and wireless communications fueled increased national productivity. Electronics (e-) became a part of american life. High-tech companies (ie apple, intel, and microsoft) joined the dot-com bomb by likes of amazon, aol, yahoo, and google. Unemployment rate fell from 7. 5% to 3. 9%
