1992 Republican Party presidential primaries
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Primary race overview
President
Republican Louisiana State Representative and former
New Hampshire primary
As Buchanan's candidacy relied heavily on a strong showing in the
Because Bush was widely perceived to have broken his "read my lips" pledge, Buchanan found support in the economically battered and conservative state of New Hampshire. Making Bush's tax-hikes a central theme of his campaign, Buchanan enjoyed healthy grass-roots support despite lagging behind the president in pre-primary polling.
Bush countered the threat posed by Buchanan by touring New Hampshire himself. He memorably told an audience at an Exeter town hall: "Message: I care".[2] Some sources claim that this was the result of Bush mistakenly reading a cue card aloud.[3]
On primary night, President Bush carried New Hampshire with 53% of the vote. Buchanan finished second with 38% of the vote.[4]
The rest of the race
Despite many in the Bush campaign attempting to push Buchanan out of the race, the strong showing made the Buchanan campaign hope for an outpouring of campaign contributions which galvanized the campaign into making efforts to pull out strong showings such as in the Georgia primary.
Despite an impressive showing, Buchanan's campaign never attracted serious opposition to President Bush in most contests. Most of Buchanan's "victories" were larger-than-expected showings that were still considered landslide Bush wins by most of the media. Still, the fact that Buchanan received more than two million votes nationwide prognosticated trouble for Bush in the general election.
Candidates
Nominee
Candidate | Most recent office | Home State | Campaign
Withdrawal date |
Popular vote | Contests won | Running mate | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Bush | President of the United States (1989–1993) |
Texas |
(Campaign) Secured nomination: May 5, 1992 |
9,199,463 (72.84%) |
51 | Dan Quayle |
Other Candidates
Candidate | Most recent office | Home State | Campaign
Withdrawal date |
Popular vote | Contests won | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pat Buchanan | White House Communications Director (1985–1987) |
Virginia |
(Campaign) |
2,899,488 (22.96%) |
N/A | ||
David Duke | Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1989–1992) |
Louisiana |
(Campaign) |
119,115 (0.94%) |
N/A | ||
Pat Paulsen | Comedian | California |
10,984 (0.09%) |
N/A | |||
Harold Stassen | Director of the United States Foreign Operations Administration (1953–1955) |
Minnesota |
8,099 (0.06%) |
N/A | |||
Jack Fellure | Former Engineer and Perennial Candidate | West Virginia |
6,296 (0.05%) |
N/A |
Campaign finance
Candidate | Campaign committee | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Raised | Total contrib. | Ind. contrib. | Pres. pub. funds | Spent | ||||
George H. W. Bush[a][5] | $104,974,415.00 | $31,802,276.00 | $31,711,102.00 | $65,898,513.00 | $107,637,852.00 | |||
Pat Buchanan[6] | $14,933,082.00 | $7,232,943.00 | $7,206,793.00 | $5,351,770.00 | $14,591,679.00 | |||
David Duke[7] | $372,146.00 | $221,854.00 | $221,945.00 | $0.00 | $457,449.00 | |||
Jack Fellure[8] | $46,748.00 | $1,260.00 | $1,425.00 | $0.00 | $47,559.00 |
Declined
- Former
Results
Date[10][11] (daily totals) |
Total pledged delegates[12] |
Contest | Delegates won and popular vote | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Bush | Pat Buchanan | Others | ||||
February 10 | 0 | Iowa caucus[13] | Cancelled. | |||
February 18 | 23 | New Hampshire primary[14] | 14 92,271 (53.2%) |
9 65,106 (37.5%) |
3,779 (2.3%) | |
February 19 | 22 | South Dakota primary[15][16] | 14 30,964 (69.3%) |
— | 5 13,707 (30.68%)[b] | |
March 3 (131) |
37 | Colorado primary[17] | 26 132,049 (68.2%) |
11 58,730 (30.3%) |
2,957 (1.53%) | |
42 | Maryland primary[17] | 42 168,898 (69.9%) |
72,701 (30.1%) |
— | ||
52 | Georgia primary[17][18] | 52 291,905 (64.3%) |
162,085 (35.7%) |
— | ||
March 7 | 36 | South Carolina primary[19][20] | 36 99,558 (66.9%) |
38,247 (25.7%) |
11,035 (7.41%) | |
March 10 (Super Tuesday) (441) |
99 | Florida primary | 67 607,522 (68.1%) |
32 285,074 (31.9%) |
– | |
41 | Louisiana primary | 25 83,747 (62.0%) |
11 36,526 (27.0%) |
5 14,841 | ||
40 | Massachusetts primary | 28 176,868 (65.6%) |
12 74,797 (27.7%) |
24,182 | ||
34 | Mississippi primary | 25 111,794 (72.3%) |
6 25,891 (16.7%) |
4 17,023 (10.6%)[c] | ||
38 | Oklahoma primary | 27 151,612 (69.6%) |
11 57,933 (26.6%) |
8,176 (2.6%) | ||
16 | Rhode Island primary | 11 9,853 (63.0%) |
5 4,967 (31.8%) |
816 (4.9%) | ||
49 | Tennessee primary | 38 178,216 (72.5%) |
11 54,585 (22.2%) |
12,849 (5.2%) | ||
124 | Texas primary | 92 556,280 (69.8%) |
32 190,572 (23.9%) |
50,294 (6.0%) | ||
March 17 (162) |
88 | Illinois primary | 68 556,280 (76.4%) |
20 186,915 (22.5%) |
9,637 (1.2%) | |
74 | Michigan primary | 54 301,948 (67.2%) |
20 112,122 (25.0%) |
35,063 (7.7%) | ||
March 24 | 38 | Connecticut primary | 29 66,356 (66.7%) |
9 21,815 (22.0%) |
11,475 (11.4%) | |
April 5 | 20 | Puerto Rico primary | 20 260,200 |
1,031 |
2,104 | |
April 7 (205) |
31 | Kansas primary | 21 132,131 (62.0%) |
5 32,494 (14.8%) |
49,571 (20.8%) | |
34 | Minnesota primary | 25 84,841 (63.9%) |
9 32,094 (24.2%) |
15,821 (8.8%) | ||
103 | New York [?] | 103 | – | – | ||
37 | Wisconsin primary | 30 364,507 (75.6%) |
7 78,516 (16.3%) |
39,225 (5.3%) | ||
April 28 | 92 | Pennsylvania primary | 71 774,865 (76.7%) |
21 233,912 (23.2%) |
— | |
May 5 (144) |
13 | District of Columbia primary | 11 4,265 (81.5%) |
2 970 (18.5%) |
– | |
20 | Delaware caucus | 20 | — | — | ||
52 | Indiana primary | 42 374,666 (80.1%) |
10 92,949 (19.9%) |
— | ||
59 | North Carolina primary | 46 200,387 (70.7%) |
13 55,420 (19.5%) |
27,764 (9.8%) | ||
May 10 | 20 | Montana primary | 14 65,176 (71.6%) |
2 10,701 (11.8%) |
3 15,098 (16.6%) | |
May 12 (46) |
27 | Nebraska primary | 23 156,346 (81.4%) |
4 25,847 (13.5%) |
9,905 (1.5%) | |
19 | West Virginia primary | 16 99,994 (80.5%) |
3 18,067 (14.6%) |
6,096 (4.9%) | ||
May 19 (62) |
25 | Oregon primary | 17 203,957 |
5 57,730 |
3 42,472 | |
37 | Washington primary | 25 86,839 (67.0%) |
4 13,273 (10.2%) |
8 29,543 (20.8%)[d] | ||
May 26 (92) |
31 | Arkansas primary | 27 45,590 (83.1%) |
4 6,551 (11.9%) |
2,742 (5.0%) | |
23 | Idaho primary | 15 73,297 (63.5%) |
3 15,167 (13.1%) |
5 27,038 (23.4%)[b] | ||
38 | Kentucky primary | 28 75,371 (74.5%) |
— | 10 25,748 (25.5%)[b] | ||
June 2 (439) |
41 | Alabama primary | 33 122,703 (74.3%) |
12,588 (7.6%) |
8 29,830 (18.1%)[b] | |
203 | California primary | 149 1,587,369 (73.6%) |
54 568,892 (26.4%) |
— | ||
63 | New Jersey primary | 53 240,535 (77.5%) |
10 46,432 (15.0%) |
(7.5%)[e] | ||
27 | New Mexico primary | 19 55,522 (63.8%) |
7,871 (9.1%) |
8 23,574 (27.1%)[b] | ||
20 | North Dakota primary | 17 39,863 (83.4%) |
— | 3 7,945 (16.6%) | ||
85 | Ohio primary | 71 716,766 |
14 143,687 |
— | ||
Total[21] | 1,973 | 1,544 9,199,463 (72.8%) |
367 2,899,488 (23.0%) |
62 497,650 (4.2%) |
12,596,601 |
Nationwide
Popular vote result:[22]
- George H. W. Bush (inc.) - 9,199,463 (72.84%)
- Pat Buchanan - 2,899,488 (22.96%)
- Unpledged delegates - 287,383 (2.28%)
- David Duke - 119,115 (0.94%)
- Ross Perot - 56,136 (0.44%)
- Pat Paulsen - 10,984 (0.09%)
- Maurice Horton - 9,637 (0.08%)
- Harold Stassen - 8,099 (0.06%)
- Jack Fellure - 6,296 (0.05%)
Endorsements
Pat Buchanan
- Brendan Eich, computer programmer and co-founder/CEO of Mozilla[23] [24]
See also
- 1992 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- George H. W. Bush 1992 presidential campaign
- Supermarket scanner moment
Notes
References
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Dowd, Maureen (16 January 1992). "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: REPUBLICANS; Immersing Himself in Nitty-Gritty, Bush Barnstorms New Hampshire". The New York Times.
- ^ NG Archived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Past New Hampshire Primary Election Results". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
- ^ "STASSEN, HAROLD E."
- ^ "BUCHANAN, PATRICK J."
- ^ "DUKE, DAVID E."
- ^ "FELLURE, LOWELL JACKSON".
- ISBN 0-06-017758-6.
- ^ "Clipped from Chicago Tribune". Chicago Tribune. 11 March 1992. p. 14.
- ^ "1992 Presidential Primary Calendar".
- Newspapers.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1992 New Hampshire Republican primary results". Archived from the original on 2017-12-13.
- ^ "1992 South Dakota Republican primary results". Archived from the original on 2019-05-14.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1992 Georgia Republican primary full results".
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1992 South Carolina Republican primary full results".
- ^ Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1992
- ^ Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1992
- ^ https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=brendan+eich&type=donors
- ^ Mozilla CEO donated to rightwing candidates, records show