In the 1996 election,
A) Democrats regained control of the House but not the Senate.
B) President Bill Clinton failed to receive 50 percent of the popular vote.
C) the Reform Party emerged as a powerful third political party.
D) Bob Dole placed third in the race.
E) President Clinton barely eked out a victory in the electoral vote.

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President Bill Clinton won the 1996 election but did not receive over 50% of the popular vote, partly due to the presence of Ross Perot, a third-party candidate from the Reform Party, who took a small but significant portion of the vote.

In the 1996 Election