✓ George W. Bush: 274 (60,259,971)
John Kerry: 264 (61,189,491)
The bitter results of the 2000 Presidential Election was child's play compared to the Presidential Election of 2004. George W. Bush managed to eke out a second term, despite losing the popular vote to John Kerry; becoming the only President to be elected and reelected without garnering popular vote support. The result polarized the country resulting in civil unrest and harsher discourse. An effort to abolish the Electoral College failed, but reforms for a more democratic form of electing our president were fought on the frontlines in state capitols across the country and in Congress...
The 2006 Midterms delivered an apocalyptic result for the Republican Party; putting the party in its worse shape since the Election of 1932. As a result, moderate leaders like Senator John McCain and Governor Mitt Romney sought to rebrand the Republican and pull it back from the precipice; while Democrats battled their own party infighting. A great battle was taking place over the soul of the Democratic Party, and it was about to play out in the 2008 Presidential Election...
2008 saw the collapse of the national party nominating system, and it was replaced by a Single Jungle Primary to be held in June. The new system ended the primary contests, allowing all candidates to be voted on, by all Americans on one day. The result the top two candidates would be two candidates to face each other in November and run for the Presidency. The Electoral College remained in effect, but Americans largely praised the new system, which allowed all voices to be heard and to give the whole country a choice at picking the two candidates. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, Socialists, etc could seek the chance to become one of the candidates. Many assumed patterns would repeat itself, A Democrat and Republican would face each other, but America was changing, and the 2008 Election would be the most unprecedented election in American history.
Candidates vying for the Presidency in 2008
Gallup Tracking Poll: Presidential Election Preference November 2006
Hillary Clinton: 33%
John McCain: 20%
Barack Obama: 16%
Rudy Giuliani: 10%
Other/Undecided: 21%
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