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A sign of increased Democratic enthusiasm?
| 2004 California Primary | |||||
| Bush | 2,216,047 | ||||
| Kerry | 2,002,539 | ||||
| Edwards | 614,441 | ||||
| Kucinich | 144,954 | ||||
| Dean | 130,892 | ||||
| Sharpton | 59,326 | ||||
| Lieberman | 52,780 | ||||
| Clark | 51,084 | ||||
| Braun | 24,501 | ||||
| Gephardt | 19,139 | ||||
| Totals | 3,099,656 | 2,216,047
| 58.3% | 41.7%
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Candidates receiving less than 10,000 votes ignored in the results above. Bush was the only candidate on the 2004 California Republican Primary ballot; he received 100.0% of the vote.
California 2004 General Election
| Kerry | 6,745,485
| Bush | 5,509,826
| 54.4% | 44.4%
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Minor party candidates ignored in the results above.
| 2008 California Primary | |||||
| Clinton | 2,133,975 | ||||
| Obama | 1,737,807 | ||||
| McCain | 986,384 | ||||
| Romney | 801,873 | ||||
| Huckabee | 272,719 | ||||
| Edwards | 170,050 | ||||
| Giuliani | 115,787 | ||||
| Paul | 99,591 | ||||
| Thompson | 45,805 | ||||
| Kucinich | 20,216 | ||||
| Richardson | 16,964 | ||||
| Biden | 15,474 | ||||
| Hunter | 12,215 | ||||
| Totals | 4,094,486 | 2,334,374
| 63.7% | 36.3%
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With a hotly contested Republican Primary, the Republicans manage to get just over a hundred thousand additional voters to the polls, compared with the previous primary. The Democrats add a million voters.
The propositions on neither the 2004 nor 2008 primary ballots generated intense interest.