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Article: SAVE THE SOUTH, CLINTON A MAN FOR ALL REGIONS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 7, 1996
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President Clinton outpolled Bob Dole everywhere but the increasingly Republican South. The East gave him an electoral shutout, and the Midwest and West provided lopsided margins, too.
A region-by-region look at the election results:
THE EAST
No one's ready to call it the Solid East. But the region's 12 states plus the District of Columbia gave all of their 127 electoral votes to Clinton. And the president's popularity helped Democrats make gains in races for Congress and state legislatures.
The Democrats picked up House seats in Maine, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - and beat the only two Republicans in the Massachusetts ...