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(Redirected from 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination) The 2004 U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination process was a series of primaries and caucuses culminating in the Democratic National Convention that decided which pair of candidates would represent the Democrats in the 2004 election for President and Vice President of the United States.
On March 11, after meetings with Democratic superdelegates in Washington and with former opponents Howard B. Dean III and John Edwards, U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts accumulated the 2,162 delegates required to clinch the nomination. Kerry was then officially acknowledged as the nominee on the Democratic National Committee website. Kerry and his chosen running mate, Senator Edwards, were formally nominated by the Democratic Party on July 28, 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Kerry's hometown of Boston, Massachusetts; Kerry gave his acceptance speech the next day. See 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry for more on Mr. Kerry's platform and views.
Candidates
- Filed:
- U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.)
- Political activist Lyndon LaRouche of Virginia is also running as a nominal Democrat, although the Democratic party did not award LaRouche convention delegates or recognize his candidacy.
- Withdrew:
- U.S. Sen. D. Robert Graham (Fla.) (October 7, 2003)
- Former Ambassador and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (Ill.) (January 15, 2004) endorsed Howard Dean
- U.S. Rep. Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt (Mo.) (January 20, 2004) endorsed John Kerry
- U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) (February 3, 2004)
- Retired Gen.Wesley K. Clark of Arkansas (February 11, 2004) endorsed John Kerry
- Former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean III, M.D., (February 18, 2004) endorsed John Kerry on March 25, 2004
- U.S. Sen. John R. Edwards (N.C.) (March 3, 2004) endorsed John Kerry
- the Rev. Alfred Sharpton Jr. of New York (March 15, 2004) endorsed John Kerry¹
- U.S. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (Ohio) (July 23, 2004) endorsed John Kerry¹
¹: Sharpton and Kucinich dropped out of the race on these dates, but did not formally withdraw or stop accepting delegates until after the convention. Kucinich received somewhat less than 1 percent of the delegates' votes, the only candidate but Kerry to be so recognized.
Vice Presidential candidates Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was designated by presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry as his Vice Presidential choice on July 6, 2004.
Among those considered in the running for the post, but ultimately not selected by Kerry included:
State-by-state results There were 4,353 total delegates to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, of which 802 were "superdelegates": party leaders, even including some of the candidates, who were not bound by any state's primary or caucus votes and could change their support at any time. A candidate needed 2,162 delegates to become the nominee. Except for the Northern Mariana Islands and Midway Atoll, all states, territories, and other inhabited areas of the United States offered delegates to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
John Kerry won 4,255 votes at the Convention, including those won by all of his former rivals except Dennis Kucinich, who received 37 votes.
Notes:
- ¹ Total delegate count includes "superdelegates," delegates not assigned directly from primary or caucus results. State delegate counts include only those delegates assigned as a result of the state primary or caucus.
- ² January 14 was a non-binding primary (no delegates apportioned). Ten of the District of Columbia's pledged delegates were awarded at ward-level caucuses on February 14; the other six were awarded based on the February 14 results in a convention on March 6.
- ³ Only local delegates were selected at the Iowa and Idaho caucuses. National delegates were selected later.
- 4 These figures are based on correctly-rounded percentages based on complete counts directly from the state parties and from the Washington Post. These figures differ slightly from those reported in most major media outlets (including some linked at the bottom of the page), where percentages have been slightly mis-stated for some candidates in some elections (either by applying inconsistent rounding or by inconsistently excluding minor candidates or candidates who had dropped out).
- 5 Expatriate Democrats, represented the Democrats Abroad organization, held their 2004 caucus on April 7 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
See also
External links
General references - CNN: Election 2004 (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/index.html)
- The New Republic Online: The TNR Primary (http://www.tnr.com/primary)
- The Green Papers Online: 2004 Presidential Primaries At a Glance (http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/paag.phtml), Democratic Delegate Allocation (http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/D-Alloc.phtml)
News articles - No Democratic candidate gets 50 percent in online primary (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/06/27/national1219EDT0608.DTL) - Associated Press, June 27, 2003
- Debate Bares Democrats' Great Divide (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13888-2003May4.html) - Washington Post, May 5, 2003
- Democrats discuss Iraq early in debate (http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/03/dems.debate.ap/) - Associated Press, May 4, 2003
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