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  U.S. presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some supporters of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were concerned that the independent candidacy of Ralph Nader would split the vote against the incumbent, thus allowing the Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush to win the 2004 election.
The 2004 election was the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain-Feingold Bill for its sponsors in the United States Senate).
Although the overall result of the election was not challenged by the Kerry campaign, third-party presidential candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik obtained a recount in Ohio.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2004   (5425 words)

  
 Politics1 - 2004 U.S. Presidential Election (P2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
FundRace 2004 - A fun site that summarizes Presidential candidate contributions -- and ranks the success of the candidates -- under three categories: grassroots donors (the smallest average contributions), fat cat donors (the largest average contributions), and devotion (the highest average of repeat donors).
Presidential Campaign Rhetoric 2004 - Park University Professor and former journalist Andrew Cline performs detailed analysis of the rhetoric used in the speeches by President Bush and the various Presidential candidates.
Commission on Presidential Debates - Established in 1987 by leaders of the two major parties to ensure that debates remain a permanent part of every general election, this nonprofit and bipartisan organization sponsored all the general election debates in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000.
www.politics1.com /p2004.htm   (994 words)

  
 U.S. presidential election, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The election marked the first time an incumbent president was re-elected while his political party increased its numbers in both houses of Congress since Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 election.
Cobb was chosen as the Presidential candidate of the Green Party on the second ballot at the Green National Convention on June 25, 2004; LaMarche was nominated as the party's Vice Presidential candidate.
It is notable that Nader was seeking the endorsement of the Green Party for his presidential run, but the membership decided to nominate Cobb as the Green Party presidential candidate, in part due to an eagerness among Greens to distance the party from the "spoiler" label.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/U.S.-presidential-election,-2004.htm   (4319 words)

  
 Bambooweb: U.S. presidential election 2004
On September 18, 2004, the Florida Supreme Court ordered that Nader be included on the ballot in Florida for the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Some supporters of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are concerned that the independent candidacy of Ralph Nader could split the vote between the two candidates, thus allowing the Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush to win the 2004 election.
The 2004 election is the first to be affected by the campaign finance reforms mandated by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain-Feingold Bill).
www.bambooweb.com /articles/u/U.S._presidential_election__2004.html   (1585 words)

  
 The Command Post - 2004 Presidential Election
A pair of third-party presidential candidates, who said that reports of problems at the polls on Election Day are not being addressed, are forcing the Buckeye State to recount its entire presidential vote.
Elections workers and reporters crammed themselves into a tiny storage room Tuesday and angled for their best views of a fl metal box the size of a large briefcase.
Election officials in one Ohio county found that about 2,600 ballots were double-counted, and two other counties have discovered possible cases of people voting twice in the presidential election.
www.command-post.org /2004   (5783 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan
Elections for the Afghan parliament, originally to take place at the same time as the presidential vote, will take place in April or May 2005.
Elections Canada helped to set up the Afghan voting system and the elections ballots were printed in Canada.
On Sept. 16, 2004, a rocket was fired at a U.S. military helicopter carrying Hamid Karzai as it approached an airbase in Gardez in eastern Afghanistan.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/afghanistan/afghanelection.html   (830 words)

  
 Teachable Moment -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
A U.S. presidential election in the U.S. is the key event in a lengthy process that begins almost as soon as a new president is inaugurated.
For a variety of reasons, many candidates withdraw from the presidential campaign in the course of the primary season--because they have not done satisfactorily in primaries and caucuses, because they have drawn as much public attention as they're likely to get, or because they are running out of money.
The vice presidential and the presidential nominees then make their acceptance speeches, and the convention ends.
www.teachablemoment.org /high/election2.html   (2582 words)

  
 Presidential Election 2004
Voting irregularities in the 2004 election demonstrate the urgency of election reform.
This election is a referendum on William Rehnquist's Supreme Court.
Election 2004 can help toll the end of the conservative era that has defined US politics for the past quarter-century.
www.thenation.com /directory/presidential_election_2004_   (1385 words)

  
 Scoop: How George Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election
In the 2004 presidential election, the full effect of electronic voting will be felt for the first time and these are the companies that will report the majority of the results.
report from the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project states that an estimated 1.5 million presidential votes were not recorded in 2000 because of difficulties using voting equipment and that electronic machines have the second highest rate of unmarked, uncounted and spoiled ballots in presidential, Senate, and governor elections over the last 12 years.
The measure would require all voting machines to produce an actual paper record by 2004 that voters can view to check the accuracy of their votes and that election officials can use to verify votes in the event of a computer malfunction, hacking, or other irregularity.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0307/S00147.htm   (3117 words)

  
 U.S. presidential election, 2004 - SourceWatch
Don Campbell, 'Maybe' now prevails in presidential surveys (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyandcid=676andncid=676ande=5andu=/usatoday/20031020/ts_usatoday/11910857), USAToday, October 20, 2003: "George W. Bush was cruising toward a second term when a big story hit late last month: A Gallup Poll found that his job approval rating had dropped to 50%.
John Greeley, In the last election, we knew the election was stolen; in this election, we may not even know that much (http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modloadandname=Newsandfile=articleandsid=596), interventionmag.com, December 28, 2003.
It also appears to be triggering some unintended political consequences, from mobilizing abortion-rights activists, who consider it the first attack on the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, to setting up a divisive election-year battle over the court's next vacancy.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=U.S._presidential_election,_2004   (939 words)

  
 US Census Press Releases
The 2000 presidential election voting rates in the District of Columbia, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Maine and Minnesota, highest in the nation.
Percentage of eligible voters who cast their ballots in the November 2000 presidential election, slightly higher than the 58 percent who voted in 1996.
The number of people who voted in the 2000 presidential election, short of the record high of 114 million set in 1992.
www.census.gov /Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/002957.html   (659 words)

  
 Teachable Moment -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
It also created the Federal Election Commission to enforce the legislation and gave presidential candidates the option of receiving government subsidies to match private contributions raised by the candidate (up to a certain limit).
The limit for spending on the general election-that is, after each party's nominee is selected at the party convention--is $75 million.
In the 2000 election period, the maximum donation for an individual was $1,000.
www.teachablemoment.org /high/election4.html   (3674 words)

  
 Presidential Election 2004 Projection
To explain why there is such fluidness in the polls, I have done some research on the methodology of each poll.
Another reason for the fluidness of the polls is that the pollsters at some companies change the demographics after every poll.
Based on polling data from various sources, voting trends, issue of importance to voters, and other elections occuring in the state.
www.yconservatives.com /Electoral.htm   (673 words)

  
 ILCA Online :: Making Labor Media a Force to Be Reckoned With   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Presidential Election 2004: Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right
While exit polls usually serve as a test of the validity of election results, in last November's US presidential election, the media assured us that when four swing states swung outside the margin of error of the exit polls, and all in the direction of Bush, this just meant that the exit polls were wrong.
Presidential Election 2004: Letter from Democratic Club of Central Orange County to DNC
www.ilcaonline.org /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=3   (619 words)

  
 Presidential election 2004
The next presidential election in the US is due in November 2004.
It has comprehensive coverage of the election including all the candidates who ever declared from the famous to the obscure.
About Elections and Voting In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act that governs the financing of federal elections.
www.americansc.org.uk /Online/Election2004.htm   (336 words)

  
 2004 Presidential Election Information
This page has been created to give you some background on the individuals who are running for President of the United States in the 2004 elections.
It also lists information on individuals who have withdrawn from the race and draft candidates who were selected by their political party.
However, you will be able to find many of the current polls covering the 2004 Elections through links at the top of the page.
www.pace.edu /library/pages/instruct/subguides/2004election.htm   (769 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Presidential Election 2004
Posted in Blogcritics on November 9, 2004 09:52 AM quotes T.J. The Thomas Jefferson quote Barbra Streisand used for her November 8 statement regarding Bush's re-election first appeared on Democratic Underground by a poster claiming to be Elizabeth Edwards: "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches...
Posted in Blogcritics on November 9, 2004 05:37 AM The big news at Guantanamo Bay is that a federal judge in Washington shut down the "military commissions," otherwise known as tribunals, being held on the U.S. base in Cuba.
Posted in Blogcritics on November 6, 2004 03:44 PM Few political analysts were more blistering about the Boy King before and during the 2004 election campaign than Kevin Phillips, the former Republican who identified and crafted the "Southern strategy" back in the late-'60s, which was exploited by Nixon and...
blogcritics.org /archives/2004/07/29/091629.php   (9486 words)

  
 CNN.com Election 2004
On November 2, the presidential race in 12 of the 15 pre-election showdown states was within 5 percentage points.
After what many analysts deemed a dismal August for Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate performed well and revived his campaign.
John Kerry defeated nine other challengers to win the Democratic presidential nomination with momentum building from the Iowa caucuses to March 9.
www.cnn.com /ELECTION/2004   (164 words)

  
 The Republic of China Taiwan Presidential Election 2004
It is crucial that the figures announced by the Central Election Commission are accurate.
In the election for the eleventh-term president and vice president, the total number of ballots cast for the No.1 candidates Chen Shui-bian and Lu Hsiu-lien was 6,471,970; while that for the No.2 candidates Lien Chan and James C. Soong was 6,442,452 ballots.
The number of the eligible voters was 16,507,179, and the turnout rate was 80.28 percent.
www.gio.gov.tw /elect2004   (240 words)

  
 Education World ® Technology in the Classroom: Sites to See: Presidential Election 2004
Education World has selected Web sites for grades K-12 that provide non-partisan, age-appropriate information about the 2004 presidential election, along with games, interactive tools, and a chance for students to participate by recording their votes.
Election 2004 is being heralded as one of the most important in a generation.
Additional resources for this year's election can be found at Primaries, Voting, and Elections, Education World's updated list of various election sites and tools for the classroom!
www.educationworld.com /a_tech/sites/sites042.shtml   (578 words)

  
 2004 Presidential Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Election Day is coming and as a journalist you want to get the word out on who the candidates are and how they feel about important issues.
Your assignment is to prepare a brochure using Microsoft Word that explains the election process, the candidates' biographies, and their stand on one issue of your choice.
This assignment is due by October 26th, one week before Election Day.
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/list2004elemr1.html   (173 words)

  
 GIS for Elections--CBS News Election Data Center
ESRI staff in New York City and Redlands collaborated with CBS News to create a rich collection of demographic maps to help analyze election results.
View maps as seen on CBS News on November 2, 2004.
ArcGIS desktop was used to display up-to-the-minute results while ArcGIS Engine supported the generation of hundreds of maps each hour on election night.
www.esri.com /industries/elections/business/uspres_election2004.html   (79 words)

  
 Presidential Election 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
SelectSmart.com will help you choose the presidential candidate that most closely matches your personal views.
This site provides information on all aspects of the election.
Democracy in Action has a wealth of information on the 2004 race, including website links for the major candidates.
www.lfpl.org /inthenews/election2004.html   (138 words)

  
 2004 Presidential Election
But candidates with a realistic chance of winning the election must collect enormous sums for their campaigns.
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, for example, raised a total of nearly half a billion dollars in private contributions during the presidential primary season.
Their decision (and that of Howard Dean, who also rejected matching funds) helped to make this presidential election the most expensive in history.
www.opensecrets.org /presidential/index.asp   (207 words)

  
 2004 Presidential Election News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
2004 Presidential Election News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
During his first election campaign, George W. Bush described himself as a uniter and not a divider.
With the election more than a year away, Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Talent's latest campaign report shows him with a 6-1 financial edge over his Democratic rival, state Auditor Claire McCaskill.
www.topix.net /news/2004-presidential-election   (1232 words)

  
 US Census Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In both Iowa, home of the first-in-the-nation political party caucus, and New Hampshire, home of the first-in-the-nation party primary, 67 percent of citizens voted in the 2000 presidential election.
In 2000, the highest voting rates were found in the District of Columbia, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Maine and Minnesota, each at or about 70 percent.
Among citizens registered to vote in the 2000 presidential election, the percentage who reported they cast ballots, up from 82 percent in 1996.
www.census.gov /Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features/001643.html   (400 words)

  
 2004 Presidential Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Al Gore won the 2000 Presidential election, but the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court decided to help out their Republican pals and install George W. Bush as president, overriding the will of the people.
Now it's time to prepare for the 2004 Presidential election, and make sure it is a fair election!
The election "reform" laws are now prohibiting paper ballots (no trail) and exit polls, which means there will be no record of votes.
www.angelfire.com /my/baybe/2004.html   (770 words)

  
 Presidential Election 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Election guide from the State of New York with information on election procedures, elected officials and their districts.
Information on the election process, voter registration and finding additional resources.
Election results back to the first Presidential election in 1789.
www.hartwick.edu /x9616.xml   (383 words)

  
 Presidential Election 2004
This site by the Carnegie Library of Pittsbuirgh has links to various news sites dealing with the presidential election as well as to the candidates' official sites.
The Commission on Presidential Debates was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners.
Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States leading presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates.
www.csupomona.edu /~ecgibson/Cal_elections/presidential_election2004.html   (334 words)

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