United States presidential election, 1996 (Alternity)

The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Vice-President Al Gore of Tennessee and the ticket of Republican challenger candidate Senator Kyle Chase of Erie and his vice-presidential candidate, Virginia Governor Samantha Hughes.

Preceding Events (1994-1996)
A recession had set in in December 1994, and Clinton's seeming failure to resolve the situation lowered his approval ratings drastically by March 1995, opening the field for dark horse Kyle Chase to launch his campaign, though he was a relative unknown outside his home state of Erie. By the end of 1995, Chase had become the favored Republican candidate over Senator Bob Dole of Kansas through Chase's unprecedented speech skills, said to have not been seen since the likes of William Jennings Bryan (a Democrat), who is sometimes said to have won against McKinley in the 1896 election through his sheer oratory skills alone. Chase was also said to be like "...a younger, more energetic Ronald Reagan..." through his generally fiscally conservative policies and promises to lower the unemployment and inflation rates, which had begun to rise steadily by early 1996.