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| Florida was under the national spotlight prior the 2004 Presidential election, being the swing state with the largest number of electoral votes (27), and with the memory of the controversy surrounding the 2000 Florida vote still fresh in the minds of voters. Polls throughout the campaign indicated that Florida was too close to call, prompting concerns about a repeat of the 2000 fiasco. However, the high popularity of Republican George W. Bush's brother, Governor Jeb Bush, contributed to a relatively comfortable victory for Bush, by a margin of 5% over his Democratic rival, John Kerry. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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While the South Florida metropolitan area mostly voted for Kerry, the other parts of the states mainly supported Bush, being culturally closer to the rest of the southern United States than to Miami, home to large Hispanic and Jewish populations. The South Florida metropolitan area is an informal name for the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–Miami Beach[1] metropolitan area. ...
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| Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) |  While Kerry won the Miami metropolitan area, Bush carried most of the rest of the state. | | George W. Bush of Texas | Richard Cheney of Wyoming | Republican | 27 | 3,964,522 | 52.10% | | John Kerry of Massachusetts | John Edwards of North Carolina | Democrat | 0 | 3,583,544 | 47.09% | | Ralph Nader of Connecticut | Peter Miguel Camejo of California | Independent, Reform | 0 | 32,971 | 0.43% | | Others | - | - | 0 | 28,773 | 0.38% | | Other elections: 2000, 2004, 2008 | See main article: U.S. presidential election, 2004. A running mate is a person running for a subordinate position on a joint ticket during an election. ...
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 A chart comparing the final exit poll in Florida with the vote count During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, numerous allegations of irregularities were made concerning the voting process in Florida. These allegations included missing and uncounted votes, machine malfunction, and a lack of correlation between the vote count and exit polling. Additionally, 58,000 absentee postal vote forms were lost in Broward County; Broward County is heavily Democrat, and Democratic Party officials accused the Republican state government of trying to "steal the election". Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ...
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Holmes County was pointed to an example of unusual voting patterns: three-quarters of registered voters in Holmes County are Democrats; however, Republican George W. Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry in Holmes County by a large margin (6,410 to 1,810). It was alleged that this phenomena was correlated to the use of optical scanning machines. [1] Holmes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. ...
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In many counties, more votes were registered than there were voters in the county, adding up to a total of 268,169 overvotes. [2] Bush supporters responded by suggesting that even with 100% support for Kerry, the combined total of all overvotes and missing votes could not have overcome Bush's margin of victory in the state, which was 377,509 votes.
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Results by county | County | John F. Kerry | George W. Bush | Others | | Alachua | 56.1% | 62,504 | 42.9% | 47,762 | 1.0% | 1,062 | | Baker | 21.9% | 2,180 | 77.7% | 7,738 | 0.4% | 37 | | Bay | 28.1% | 21,068 | 71.2% | 53,404 | 0.7% | 552 | | Bradford | 29.9% | 3,244 | 69.6% | 7,557 | 0.5% | 54 | | Brevard | 41.6% | 110,309' | 57.7% | 153,068 | 0.8% | 2,085 | | Broward | 64.2% | 453,873 | 34.6% | 244,674 | 1.2% | 8,325 | | Calhoun | 35.5% | 2,116 | 63.4% | 3,782 | 1.1% | 65 | | Charlotte | 42.9% | 34,256 | 55.7% | 44,428 | 1.4% | 1,102 | | Citrus | 42.1% | 29,277 | 56.9% | 39,500 | 1.0% | 690 | | Clay | 23.3% | 18,971 | 76.2% | 62,078 | 0.5% | 446 | | Collier | 34.1% | 43,892 | 65.0% | 83,631 | 0.9% | 1,160 | | Columbia | 32.1% | 8,031 | 67.1% | 16,758 | 0.8% | 202 | | DeSoto | 41.1% | 3,913 | 58.1% | 5,524 | 0.8% | 73 | | Dixie | 30.4% | 1,960 | 68.8% | 4,434 | 0.7% | 48 | | Duval | 41.6% | 158,610 | 57.8% | 220,190 | 0.6% | 2,261 | | Escambia | 33.7% | 48,329 | 65.3% | 93,566 | 1.0% | 1,383 | | Flagler | 48.3% | 18,578 | 51.0% | 19,633 | 0.7% | 269 | | Franklin | 40.5% | 2,401 | 58.5% | 3,472 | 1.0% | 58 | | Gadsden | 69.7% | 14,629 | 29.8% | 6,253 | 0.5% | 102 | | Gilchrist | 28.8% | 2,017 | 70.4% | 4,936 | 0.9% | 62 | | Glades | 41.0% | 1,718 | 58.3% | 2,443 | 0.6% | 27 | | Gulf | 33.1% | 2,407 | 66.0% | 4,805 | 0.9% | 65 | | Hamilton | 44.5% | 2,260 | 55.0% | 2,792 | 0.5% | 27 | | Hardee | 29.6% | 2,149 | 69.7% | 5,049 | 0.7% | 51 | | Hendry | 40.5% | 3,960 | 58.9% | 5,757 | 0.6% | 58 | | Hernando | 46.2% | 37,187 | 52.9% | 42,635 | 0.9% | 725 | | Highlands | 37.0% | 15,347 | 62.4% | 25,878 | 0.7% | 271 | | Hillsborough | 46.2% | 214,132 | 53.0% | 245,576 | 0.8% | 3,514 | | Holmes | 21.8% | 1,810 | 77.3% | 6,412 | 0.9% | 78 | | Indian River | 39.0% | 23,956 | 60.1% | 36,938 | 0.8% | 520 | | Jackson | 38.1% | 7,555 | 61.2% | 12,122 | 0.7% | 130 | | Jefferson | 55.3% | 4,135 | 44.1% | 3,298 | 0.6% | 45 | | Lafayette | 25.4% | 845 | 74.0% | 2,460 | 0.6% | 20 | | Lake | 38.9% | 48,221 | 60.0% | 74,389 | 1.1% | 1,340 | | Leon | 61.5% | 83,873 | 37.8% | 51,615 | 0.7% | 891 | | Lee | 39.0% | 93,860 | 59.9% | 144,176 | 1.1% | 2,631 | | Levy | 36.5% | 6,074 | 62.5% | 10,410 | 1.0% | 168 | | Liberty | 35.4% | 1,070 | 63.8% | 1,927 | 0.8% | 24 | | Madison | 48.8% | 4,050 | 50.5% | 4,191 | 0.8% | 63 | | Manatee | 42.7% | 61,262 | 56.6% | 81,318 | 0.7% | 1,041 | | Marion | 41.0% | 57,271 | 58.2% | 81,283 | 0.8% | 1,123 | | Martin | 41.7% | 30,208 | 57.1% | 41,362 | 1.2% | 883 | | Miami-Dade | 52.9% | 409,732 | 46.6% | 361,095 | 0.5% | 3,899 | | Monroe | 49.7% | 19,654 | 49.2% | 19,467 | 1.0% | 414 | | Nassau | 26.2% | 8,573 | 72.6% | 23,783 | 1.2% | 387 | | Okaloosa | 21.6% | 19,368 | 77.6% | 69,693 | 0.8% | 695 | | Oskeechobee | 42.3% | 5,153 | 57.2% | 6,978 | 0.5% | 59 | | Orange | 49.8% | 193,354 | 49.6% | 192,539 | 0.6% | 2,151 | | Osceola | 47.0% | 38,633 | 52.5% | 43,117 | 0.6% | 454 | | Palm Beach | 60.4% | 328,687 | 39.1% | 212,688 | 0.6% | 3,247 | | Pasco | 44.4% | 84,749 | 54.1% | 103,230 | 1.5% | 2,937 | | Pinellas | 49.5% | 225,460 | 49.6% | 225,686 | 0.9% | 4,211 | | Polk | 40.8% | 86,009 | 58.6% | 123,559 | 0.6% | 1,262 | | Putnam | 40.1% | 12,412 | 59.1% | 18,311 | 0.8% | 250 | | Saint Johns | 30.6% | 26,399 | 68.6% | 59,196 | 0.8% | 695 | | Saint Lucie | 51.8% | 51,835 | 47.6% | 47,592 | 0.6% | 636 | | Santa Rosa | 21.8% | 14,659 | 77.3% | 52,059 | 0.9% | 589 | | Sarasota | 45.2% | 88,442 | 53.5% | 104,692 | 1.3% | 2,518 | | Seminole | 41.3% | 76,971 | 58.1% | 108,172 | 0.6% | 1,052 | | Sumter | 36.4% | 11,584 | 62.2% | 19,800 | 1.4% | 458 | | Suwanee | 28.6% | 4,522 | 70.6% | 11,153 | 0.8% | 127 | | Taylor | 35.5% | 3,049 | 63.7% | 5,467 | 0.8% | 65 | | Union | 26.8% | 1,251 | 72.6% | 3,396 | 0.6% | 28 | | Volusia | 50.5% | 115,519 | 48.9% | 111,924 | 0.7% | 1,496 | | Wakulla | 41.6% | 4,896 | 57.6% | 6,777 | 0.8% | 90 | | Walton | 25.9% | 6,213 | 73.2% | 17,555 | 0.9% | 208 | | Washington | 28.1% | 2,912 | 71.1% | 7,369 | 0.8% | 85 | [edit] John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ...
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