United States presidential election in Florida, 2004
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County Results
Kerry—60-70%
Kerry—50-60%
Kerry—<50%
Bush—<50%
Bush—50-60%
Bush—60-70%
Bush—70-80%
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The 2004 United States presidential election in Florida 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 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
Florida was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 5.0% margin of victory. Prior to the election, most news organizations considered this a swing state. Once again Florida was under the national spotlight because of the facts that it had a high number of electoral votes (27) and the memory of the controversy surrounding the 2000 Florida vote still fresh in the minds of voters. The turnout was also much higher, going from an estimated 6 million voters to over 7.5 million voters showing up to vote.
There were 12 news organizations who made state by state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.
Throughout the general election, candidates exchanged narrow leads in the state. The final 3 poll averaged showed Bush leading with 49% to Kerry's 47%.
Bush raised $16,956,510. Kerry raised $7,285,151.
This state was heavily targeted as a swing state. Over the course of the election, Bush visited the state 15 times to Kerry's 18 times. Also, both candidates spent heavily on television advertisements, spending an estimated $3 million each week.
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