Bob Dole

Bob Dole campaign buttons were created in the contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President. Businessman Ross Perot ran as candidate for the Reform Party with economist Pat Choate as his running mate; he received less media attention and was excluded from the presidential debates and, while still obtaining substantial results for a third-party candidate, by U.S. standards, did not renew his success of the 1992 election. President Clinton benefited from an economy which recovered from the early 1990s recession and a relatively stable world stage. He went on to win re-election with a substantial margin in the popular vote and electoral college.