EXPLAINING

ELECTIONSC

AN INTRODUCTION

By: Pangisban, Jessa June P.

 PROCESS OF
PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION IN THE
US
People from
each state
will vote for Whoever
President Popular Vote garners the
and Vice- majority of
President the
Electoral Electoral
vote wins
ELECTORAL Vote
COLLEGE
 THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
CHOICES OF AMERICAN VOTERS

Voted for Clinton 44,908,233 43.0%

( Democrat)
Voted for Bush 39,102, 282 37.4%
( Republican)
Voted for Perot 19, 741, 048 18.9%

Voted for someone 669, 324 0.6%

else
Total Voting 104,420,887 100%
PLAUSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS
OF THE RESULTS
C
 1. PEOPLE WERE ALIENATED FROM THE
SYSTEM
CHOICES OF ADULT
AMERICAN CITIZENS
Did not vote 80, 684, 554 43.6%
Voted for Clinton 44, 908, 233 24.3%
Voted for Bush 39, 102, 282 21.1%
Voted for Perot 19, 741, 048 10.7%
Voted for someone 669, 324 0.4%
else
Total number of adult
Americans
185, 105, 441 100%
2. People wanted conservative
Public Policies.

56.3%
37.4% 18.9%
3. People wanted moderate public
policies
4. People wanted Liberal Public
Policies
5. People wanted a change
1.

2.
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
AND THE ELECTION
C

PROCESS
 Republicans would
Democrats would likely
likely support the
support the theory
theory which says that
which says that people
people wanted
wanted liberal policies.
conservative policies.
Elections involve millions of
individual decisions. That’s
what made it so hard to
interpret it
In order to understand the reason
behind the result of the election, we
need to know the factors which
affects these millions of individual
decision
But comparing people with the same culture is a
AMERICANS different thing.

INDIANS

ITALIANS
The election had shown that people
areIt makes
not united.
no sense to generalize what the
American people think..