1992 United States presidential election

The election of 1992 was the 52nd quadrennial presidenial election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. It saw incumbent Republican Ronald Reagan run for a fourth term, the first person to do so since FDR. His opponent was another former California governor Jerry Brown, who ran a very energetic campaign attacking Reagan as being too old to be president. Reagan, for his part, used his own powerful oratory skills, victory in the Persian Gulf War, and humor to win over followers. On November 3, despite declining health, the now-81-year-old Reagan won another one of his trademark landslide victories, claiming all but 6 states with a difference of 499 electoral votes and a significant bulge in the popular vote as well. Reagan also did surprisingly better than he did in 1988, making him the only President to do better in a fourth term re-election. After only two months of leaving office in 1997, Reagan would announce that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. To this very day, people still speculate on if he showed signs of the disease while in office, but it has never been proven quite definitely. Today, Reagan remains the longest serving President, serving about four years longer than FDR. This marked the beginning of a large movement rightward of the United States, leading to moderation of the Democratic Party and reinforcement of the Republican Party's conservative wing.