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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.