How did the economy affect the 1992 election?

The answer is Bush was blamed for the recession

Bush's economic regulation caused the value of real estates started to dropped and cause a lot of people loss their main investment.
This caused a drop to dow jones scores dropped almost 25% and 7.8 % unemployment rate.
Because of his failure, the voters turn their hope to President Bill Clinton, who later on managed to bring back U.S economy into stability.