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Bush's 2.4% popular vote margin is the smallest ever for a re-elected incumbent president surpassing the 1812 election. Bush won three states that have not voted Republican since: Virginia, Colorado, and New Mexico. Virginia had voted Republican in every election from 1968 to 2004 but conversely has voted Democratic in every election since 2008.
Four years later, in the 2004 presidential election, he narrowly defeated Democratic nominee John Kerry, to win re-election. Bush served two terms and was succeeded by Democrat Barack Obama, who won the 2008 presidential election. He is the eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush.
Republican +2.4%: Electoral vote: George W. Bush : 286: John Kerry : 251: 2004 presidential election results map. Red denotes states/districts won by Republican George W. Bush, and Blue denotes those won by Democrat John Kerry. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state. Senate elections
Fuzzy math: a term used by Bush to dismiss the figures used by Gore. Others later turned the term against Bush. [56] [57] Al Gore invented the Internet: an interpretation of Gore's having said he "took the initiative in creating the Internet," meaning that he was on the committee that funded the research leading to the Internet's formation.
George H. W. Bush's tenure as the 41st president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1989, and ended on January 20, 1993. Bush, a Republican from Texas and the incumbent vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.
The 2004 presidential campaign of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, announced his candidacy for re-election as president on May 16, 2003.On September 2, 2004, he again became the nominee of the Republican Party for the 2004 presidential election.
47.9% Winner. Lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College. Ulysses S. Grant: 1872: Republican: 3,597,439 55.6% Winner (incumbent). William Howard Taft: 1912: Republican: 3,486,242 23.17% Third place (incumbent). Only post-Civil War election in which a candidate from one of the two major parties came in third place. Ulysses S. Grant ...
Bush won 72.84% of the popular vote while Buchanan won 22.96%. The fact that Buchanan got almost 2.9 million votes despite challenging an incumbent in primaries threatened Bush's campaign for his presidential run. [71]