Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The result in Ohio would decide the winner, although the results in New Mexico and Iowa were also undetermined. Bush led in Ohio, but the state was still counting provisional ballots. In the afternoon of the day after the election, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell announced that there were roughly 135,000 provisional ballots remaining ...
The 2004 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 20 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ohio was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 2.11%
George Herbert Walker Bush served as the 41st president of the United States (1989–1993), the 43rd vice president (1981–1989), the 11th director of central intelligence (1976–1977), and as a United States representative from Texas (1967–1971).
As a swing state, Ohio is usually targeted by both major-party campaigns, especially in competitive elections. [1] Pivotal in the election of 1888, Ohio was a regular swing state from 1980 until 2016. [2] [3] Additionally, Ohio was previously considered a bellwether.
Bush was President Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989 and succeeded him as president, holding office from 1989 to 1993. Bush died Nov. 30, 2018, seven months after Barbara died.
The 4th district also gave Bush a narrow margin, giving him 51% of the vote. The now obsolete 5th district in the western part of the state was home to Iowa's most Republican areas, having elected Steve King to Congress in 2002; it gave Bush a landslide 21-point margin. In terms of counties carried, both candidates flipped counties.
He became the fourth sitting vice president to be elected president and the first to do so since Martin Van Buren in 1836 and the first person to succeed a president from his own party via election since Herbert Hoover in 1929. [101] [g] In the concurrent congressional elections, Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress. [155]
President Bush's 37.4% was the lowest percentage total for a sitting president seeking re-election since William Howard Taft, also in 1912 (23.2%). [91] 1992 was, as the 1912 election was, a three-way race (that time between Taft, Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt).