CLEVELAND – Ahead of the most important debate of his political career, Joe Biden huddled with his team of senior advisers in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, last week to try to predict the moves of one of the most unpredictable men in politics, President Donald Trump. Although in percentage terms it was the closest popular margin ever for a victorious sitting president, Bush received 2.5% more than Kerry. Trump also faces a challenge of history: Incumbent presidents tend to perform poorly in first debates. Move to Los Angeles California in 2004. NYTimes.com 2004 Election Results Interactive Graphic, "How close were U.S. Presidential Elections? Previously, television advertisements only required a written "paid for by" disclaimer on the screen. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2004 Democratic National Convention … Here’s how much you had to make in 2017 to pay more income tax than Donald Trump. But that seems to have had little to do with the debates — Carter’s lead had been shrinking before the debates started, and it was in fact Ford who is said to have made a famous gaffe in the debates (by saying there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe"). Bush had established a lead of around 130,000 votes but the Democrats pointed to provisional ballots that had yet to be counted, initially reported to number as high as 200,000. Many such groups were active throughout the campaign season (there was some similar activity, although on a much lesser scale, during the 2000 campaign). He accepted the nomination on September 2, 2004, and retained Vice President Dick Cheney as his running mate. (Anonymous/AP Photo) Many considered the debate a turning point in Kennedy’s campaign. "That's something Joe Biden can do pretty effectively and has done. Now, the effect of general election debates has been overhyped by some.
One Minnesota elector voted for Edwards for both president and vice president. It was opposed by 178 Republicans, 88 Democrats and one independent. One elector in Minnesota cast a ballot for president with the name of "John Ewards" [sic] written on it. But of course, it’s far from clear how much of these historical trends will still hold true when one of the two major party candidates is Donald J. Trump. First, while the war itself was popular in the U.S., the reconstruction and attempted "democratization" of Iraq lost some support as months passed and casualty figures increased, with no decrease in violence nor progress toward stability or reconstruction. There were three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate during the 2004 general election. The former vice president took a break last Thursday from campaign events to ramp up debate preparation, turning to Bob Bauer, a senior Biden adviser and former White House general counsel, to play the role of Trump during mock debates. 2004", PBS.org Interactive Electoral College Map, Maps and cartograms of the 2004 U.S. presidential election results, Interactive Atlas of the 2004 Presidential Election Results, Alternate views of the electoral results map, Assessing the Vote and the Roots of American Political Divide, Probability analysis of Electoral College based on latest poll results by state, About.com, Democracy & Voting Rights – Ohio 2004 Election as Lesson in What Can Go Wrong, Campaign commercials from the 2004 election, Elections in which the winner lost the popular vote, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, 1978 United States House of Representatives elections, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_United_States_presidential_election&oldid=980623918, History of the United States (1991–present), November 2004 events in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Pages using bar box without float left or float right, Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from July 2019, Articles needing additional references from November 2016, All articles needing additional references, Articles with Encyclopædia Britannica links, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, On October 5, the vice presidential debate between Cheney and Edwards. This was the only debate to feature all 10 candidates. "You know, what I do is debate prep every day," Trump said.