How did Clinton win Montana?

[Samof94]

How did Clinton win Montana in 1992??!

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

I imagine because of Perot, but I guess Montana also has an anti-incumbent streak.

[Samof94]

I imagine because of Perot, but I guess Montana also has an anti-incumbent streak.

Perot likely played a part.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Max Baucus was a Senator from 1978/2014  and he was a blue dog like Bill Clinton was, helped Clinton had in the state..

Since 2010, D's got rid of Defense of Marriage Act and Hillary was punished for SSM endorsement, being a female in 2016

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Perot. Period.

[Sumner 1868]

Perot certainly helped, but we must remember Montana was only a lean R state until the mid-1990s "War on the West" backlash against Gore-influenced greenish polices and the 1994 gun control measures. Note Montana was roughly within national average in the Reagan and Nixon landslides.


Dukakis v. Bush 1988:



Gore v. Bush 2000:

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Max Baucus was a longtime Senator from MT, Baucus helped Clinton win the state

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How did Clinton win Montana in 1992??!

By polling 154,507 votes to Bush's 144,207 and Perot's 107,225.

[Samof94]

Perot certainly helped, but we must remember Montana was only a lean R state until the mid-1990s "War on the West" backlash against Gore-influenced greenish polices and the 1994 gun control measures. Note Montana was roughly within national average in the Reagan and Nixon landslides.


Dukakis v. Bush 1988:



Gore v. Bush 2000:

I forget how big a deal 1994 was sometimes. Clinton still won some Southern states in 1996(and Arizona) though.

[Badger]

Also the farm crisis was still going on even into the early 90s. It's why Dukakis was so competitive in Montana + places like The Dakotas even as he got walloped Nationwide.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Perot certainly helped, but we must remember Montana was only a lean R state until the mid-1990s "War on the West" backlash against Gore-influenced greenish polices and the 1994 gun control measures. Note Montana was roughly within national average in the Reagan and Nixon landslides.


Dukakis v. Bush 1988:



Gore v. Bush 2000:

For the record, Missoula County was one of Nader’s best counties nationwide in 2000.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Also the farm crisis was still going on even into the early 90s. It's why Dukakis was so competitive in Montana + places like The Dakotas even as he got walloped Nationwide.

Should also be noted that the logging, paper, and pulp industries suffered greatly in the late-80s/early-90s. I would assume the Republican association with CAFTA and then NAFTA was perhaps a bit unpopular and voters may have been attracted to Perot's anti-free trade stance and Clinton's promises to renegotiate parts of the deal. I'm not an expert on Montana's economy but I am pretty sure they were in heavy competition with Canada on this front