A report on 2000 United States presidential election, Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States) and 2004 United States presidential election

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Senator Kerry at a primary rally in St. Louis, Missouri, at the St. Louis Community College – Forest Park

The incumbent in 2000, Bill Clinton. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2001.

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

2000 Palm Beach County voting stand and ballot box

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Bush speaking at campaign rally in St. Petersburg, Florida, October 19, 2004

Florida Supreme Court during the recount

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Neighboring yard signs for Bush and Kerry in Grosse Pointe, Michigan

Gore-Lieberman supporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

These maps show the amount of attention given by the campaigns to the close states. At left, each waving hand represents a visit from a presidential or vice-presidential candidate during the final five weeks. At right, each dollar sign represents one million dollars spent on TV advertising by the campaigns during the same time period.

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Cheney visited Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania on October 27, 2004

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Bush in the Oval Office, receiving a concession phone call from Kerry, which came the afternoon of the day following the election after Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell declared that it would be statistically impossible for Kerry to overcome Bush's lead in the state's results

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote.

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Presidential electoral votes by state. Red is Republican; blue is Democratic.

Vote share by county for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. Darker shades indicate a stronger Green performance.

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Presidential popular votes by county. Note substantially more "mixing" of colors.

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Presidential popular votes by county as a scale from red/Republican to blue/Democratic.

Election results by congressional district.

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Presidential popular votes cartogram, in which the sizes of counties have been rescaled according to their population.

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Cartogram in which each square represents one electoral vote.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

Change in vote margins at the county level from the 2000 election to the 2004 election. While Bush improved nationally overall, making his strongest gains in the South, he suffered a loss of support in parts of New England and the Western United States, which swung in Kerry's favor.

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, won the election, defeating incumbent Vice President Al Gore.

- 2000 United States presidential election

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

The Republican ticket of incumbent President George W. Bush and his running mate incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney were elected to a second term, defeating the Democratic ticket of John Kerry, a United States senator from Massachusetts and his running mate John Edwards, a United States senator from North Carolina.

- 2004 United States presidential election

Some aspects of the election process were subject to controversy, but not to the degree seen in the 2000 presidential election.

- 2004 United States presidential election

President Bill Clinton, a Democrat and former Governor of Arkansas, was ineligible to seek reelection to a third term due to the Twenty-second Amendment; in accordance with Section1 of the Twentieth Amendment, his term expired at noon Eastern Standard Time on January 20, 2001.

- 2000 United States presidential election

Although both major political parties (and many minor ones) use the traditional American colors of red, white, and blue in their marketing and representations, since election night 2000 blue has become the identifying color for the Democratic Party while red has become the identifying color for the Republican Party.

- Democratic Party (United States)

A Republican ticket of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney won the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

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Because the 2000 presidential election was so close in Florida, the federal government and state governments pushed for election reform to be prepared by the 2004 presidential election.

- 2000 United States presidential election

In the 2004 presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry received 54% of the vote from voters of the age group 18–29 while Republican George W. Bush received 45%.

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George W. Bush

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American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

George W. Bush with his parents, Barbara and George H. W. Bush, c. undefined 1947

Governor Bush (right) with father, former president George H. W. Bush, and wife, Laura, 1997

George W. Bush re-election campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Deficit and debt increases from 2001 to 2009. Gross debt has increased over $500billion each year since the 2003 fiscal year.

President Bush signing the No Child Left Behind Act into law, January 8, 2002

President Bush delivering a statement on energy, urging Congress to end offshore oil drill ban, June 18, 2008

President Bush discussing border security with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff near El Paso, November 2005

President Bush with hurricane victims in Biloxi, September 2, 2005

President Bush announcing his nomination of Alberto Gonzales as the next U.S. Attorney General, November 10, 2004

Countries visited by President George W. Bush during his time in office

President Bush with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Shanghai, October 21, 2001. Russia had cooperated with the U.S. in the war on terror.

President Bush, beside firefighter Bob Beckwith, addressing rescue workers at the World Trade Center site

Countries with major military operations throughout the war on terror launched by Bush, including those launched after his presidency

President Bush and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan in Kabul, March 1, 2006

President Bush, with Naval Flight Officer Lieutenant Ryan Philips, after landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln prior to his Mission Accomplished speech, May 1, 2003

Gallup/USA Today Bush public opinion polling from February 2001 to January 2009

Protest against the Iraq War in New London, Connecticut on May 23, 2007

Countries with a U.S. military presence in 2007

Charlie Strong (left), Texas Longhorns head football coach, George W. Bush and Reverend Jesse Jackson hold up a Texas Longhorns football jersey at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2014

Bush eulogizing his father at the National Cathedral, December 5, 2018

George W. Bush and Laura at the inauguration of Joe Biden

George W. Bush Presidential Center, on the campus of Southern Methodist University

Bush on January 20, 2001 in Washington D.C., the day of his first inauguration as President of the United States.

Former President George W. Bush and his wife being escorted to a waiting helicopter by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on January 20, 2009.

A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of former president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.

In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore after a narrow and contested win that involved a Supreme Court decision to stop a recount in Florida.

Bush was re-elected president in 2004, defeating Democrat John Kerry.

2008 United States presidential election

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The 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.

The incumbent in 2008, George W. Bush. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2009.

2008 DNC during Stevie Wonder's performance

The Palins and McCains campaigning in Fairfax, Virginia, September 10, 2008, following the Republican National Convention

Obama campaigning as a symbol of change in Cleveland, Ohio with a "Change We Need" sign

Cartogram of the Electoral Votes for 2008 United States presidential election, each square representing one electoral vote. The map shows the impact of winning swing states. Nebraska, being one of two states that are not winner-take-all, for the first time had its votes split, with its second congressional district voting for Obama.

An Obama sign displayed at a home in Arlington, VA, on November 1, 2008.

States/districts in the 2008 United States Presidential election in which the margin of victory was less than 5%. Blue states/districts went for Obama, red for McCain. Yellow states were won by either candidate by 5% or more. Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia and Iowa were won by Bush in 2004 but were won by Obama by a margin of more than 5% in 2008.

Swing by state. States are listed by (increasing) percentage of Democratic votes, showing how the share of the vote changed between 2004 and 2008. Excluding the candidates' home states, only five states trended more Republican: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia.

Popular vote by county. Red represents counties that went for McCain; blue represents counties that went for Obama. Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont had all counties go to Obama. Oklahoma had all counties go to McCain.

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Voting shifts per county from the 2004 to the 2008 election. Darker blue indicates the county voted more Democratic. Darker red indicates the county voted more Republican.

Change in vote margins at the county level from the 2004 election to the 2008 election. Obama made dramatic gains in every region of the country except for Arizona (McCain's home state), Alaska (Palin's home state), Appalachia, and the inner South, where McCain improved over Bush.

Results by Congressional Districts, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote.

Final poll closing times on Election Day.
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The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.

Obama flipped nine states that had voted Republican in 2004: Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia, as well as Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.

Nevertheless, the media speculated on several other candidates, including Al Gore, the runner-up in the 2000 election; John Kerry, the runner-up in the 2004 election; John Edwards, Kerry's running mate in 2004; senator from Delaware Joe Biden; New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack; and Indiana Senator Evan Bayh.