[40] ABOUT US Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Carol Moseley Braun also dropped out, endorsing Howard Dean. Senator from Massachusetts. Bush was the first candidate since his father in the 1988 election to win over 50% of the popular vote, and is the most recent Republican candidate to have done so, as well as winning the overall popular vote. The October 2001 invasion was followed by the creation of a Department of Homeland Security and passage of the PATRIOT Act to prevent future attacks. October 5, 2004 (vice presidential) October 8, 2004. The Bush administration then turned its attention to Iraq, and argued the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq had become urgent. As in 2000. Results: John Kerry, 38%; John Edwards, 32%; Howard Dean, 18%; Dick Gephardt, 11%; Dennis Kucinich, 1%; Al Sharpton, 0%. United States presidential election of 2004, American presidential election held on Nov. 2, 2004, in which Republican George W. Bush was elected to a second term, defeating Democrat John Kerry, a U.S senator from Massachusetts. Dean also generated interest from progressive activists by advocating universal health coverage and middle-class tax cuts. Dean led the field in fundraising through online engagement and a focus on individual donors. The keynote address at the convention was delivered by Illinois State Senator (and future president) Barack Obama; the speech was well received, and it elevated Obama's status within the Democratic Party.[13]. Kerry countered that the cuts were aimed at wealthy Americans and erased a budget surplus created under the Clinton administration. In 2004, the results were Bush 21,490 (64.1%), Kerry 11,781 (35.1%), Nader 196 (0.58%) and Badnarik 67 (0.2%). 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Many such groups were active throughout the campaign season (there was some similar activity, although on a much lesser scale, during the 2000 campaign). Bush and Cheney were renominated by their party with no difficulty. Note substantially more "mixing" of colors. Nevertheless, on May 1, George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in a Lockheed S-3 Viking, where he gave a speech announcing the end of "major combat operations" in the Iraq War. Which States Split Their Electoral Votes? As expected, these debates set the agenda for the final leg of the political contest. There is no individual federal agency with direct regulatory authority of the U.S. voting machine industry. Presidential popular votes by county as a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic. The UN responded that such a request could only come from the official national executive. American presidential election, 2004; presidential candidate political party electoral votes popular votes; Source: Federal Election Commission. ), Source: CNN exit poll (13,660 surveyed)[53]. The incessant replaying of the "Dean Scream" by the press became a debate on whether Dean was victimized by media bias. As a result, several states had a different number of electors in the U.S. The incumbent Republican President George W. Bush and his running mate Vice President Dick Cheney were elected to a second term, defeating the Democratic ticket of John Kerry, a United States Senator from Massachusetts and his running mate John Edwards, a United States Senator from North Carolina. Kerry chose Edwards, who had himself sought the party's 2004 presidential nomination, to be his running mate. 2020 Presidential Election Interactive Map. [17] However, the focus quickly shifted to the conduct of CBS News after they aired a segment on 60 Minutes Wednesday, introducing what became known as the Killian documents. [84] The OSCE is not affiliated with the United Nations. Presidential Election of 2004, Electoral and Popular Vote Summary This table provides information about the election results between candidates George W. Bush and John F. Kerry Principal Candidates for President and Vice President: Republican—George W. Bush; Richard B. Cheney (winner) The state held enough electoral votes to determine the winner of the presidency. (a) One faithless elector from Minnesota cast an electoral vote for John Edwards (written as John Ewards) for president. In September 2003, retired four-star general Wesley Clark announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination. The prior record, about 54.5 million votes, was set in 1984 by Ronald Reagan. Because the motion was supported by at least one member of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the law required that the two houses separate to debate and vote on the objection. [48] This was apparently the result of a typographical error, and an amended electoral vote certificate with the correct middle initial was transmitted to the President of the Senate prior to the official electoral vote count.[49]. Bush won Florida and Ohio to lock up key votes in the Electoral College. The key factors enabling it to survive were when fellow Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy assigned Mary Beth Cahill to be the new campaign manager, as well as Kerry's mortgaging his home to lend the money to his campaign (while his wife was a billionaire, campaign finance rules prohibited using one's personal fortune). Advertisements produced by political campaigns usually included the statement, "I'm [candidate's name], and I approve this message." Kerry and Edwards focused their criticisms on the administration’s handling of foreign policy and inability to strengthen the economy. In the days following the video's release, Bush's lead over Kerry increased by several points. Bush's absolute victory margin (approximately 3 million votes) was the smallest of any sitting president since, At least 12 million more votes were cast than in the 2000 election. At the time provisional ballots were reported as numbering 140,000 (and later estimated to be only 135,000). Senator John Kerry (Massachusetts) came in, and with the air of a war hero’s electability, the latter washed over front-runner and former Vermont governor Howard Dean in the caucuses and rode the current all the way to…, …securing the Democratic nomination in 2004, Kerry chose as his running mate John Edwards, a U.S. senator from North Carolina who had contended ably for the primary nomination. In March's Super Tuesday, Kerry won decisive victories in the California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island primaries as well as in the Minnesota caucuses. This is the most recent election when a candidate won while earning less than 300 electoral votes. Senator Boxer claimed that she had made the motion not to challenge the outcome, but to "shed the light of truth on these irregularities. This is the most recent election in which the Democratic Party nominated a person with military service. The scream scene was shown approximately 633 times by cable and broadcast news networks in just four days after the incident, an amount not including talk shows and local news broadcasts. In the afternoon of the day after the election, Ohio's Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, announced that it was statistically impossible for the Democrats to make up enough valid votes in the provisional ballots to win. 2004 Debates. 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