When president clinton was elected to a second term in 1996? a) republicans maintained control of congress b) democrats took over the house and senate c) voters overwhelmingly favored the democrats. d) voters blamed the republicans for the economy.

The options of the question are, A) Republicans maintained the control of Congress.  B) Democarts took over the House and Senate. C) Voters overwhelmingly favored Democrats. D) Voters blamed the Republicans for the economy.

The correct answer is A) Republicans maintained the control of Congress.

When Clinton was elected to a second term in 1996, the Republicans maintained the control of Congress.

President Bill Clinton could not propose major interior intiatives due to the Republicans had won the House of Representatives and the Senate. That, and the Monica Lewinsky incident that almost made him impeached, refrained the actions of his second term. Democratic candidate Al Gore couldn’t win the 2000 election and the Presidency became Republican with the victory of candidate George W. Bush.  

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: