United States presidential election in Arizona, 2004

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Nominee	George W. Bush	John Kerry
Party	Republican	Democratic
Home state	Texas	Massachusetts
Running mate	Dick Cheney	John Edwards
Electoral vote	10	0
Popular vote	1,104,294	893,524
Percentage	54.87%	44.40%

County Results

Kerry—60-70%

Kerry—50-60%

Bush—50-60%

Bush—60-70%

President before election

George W. Bush
Republican

Elected President

George W. Bush
Republican

The 2004 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 2, 2004 throughout all 50 states and D.C., which was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Arizona was won by incumbent George Bush by a 10.5% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Bush would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. Neither major party tickets campaigned here in the fall election. Arizona hosted the third presidential debate on October 13, 2004 in the city of Tempe.

There were 12 news organizations who made state by state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.

Throughout several polls taken in the state in 2004, just one showed Kerry leading. The final 3 pre-election polls showed that Bush was leading with 51% to Kerry's 43%.

Bush raised $3,196,692. Kerry raised $1,525,930.

Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall campaign.

The exit polls showed that Bush was the going to be the clear winner of the state, based on the fact that both Bush won among both genders. A major key factor was how 55% of the people thought the state economy was good, and 70% of those people voted for Bush. Also, 55% of the state approved of Bush.

The key to Bush's victory was winning the highly populated Maricopa County with almost 57%. Although, Bush did win portions of state such as Arizona's 4th congressional district and Arizona's 7th congressional district and 4 counties. 50% of the voting age population came out to vote.

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