Final electoral vote count: Bush 286, Kerry 252
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President George W. Bush won re-election with 286 electoral votes while Democratic challenger John Kerry amassed 252 electoral votes, according to a final tally compiled after the midwestern state of Iowa fell into the Bush column.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - President Bush&#39;s slim victory over John Kerry became official yesterday, with the margin put at 119,000 votes.
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TONY JONES: First to the US, where George W Bush is preparing for his second term tonight. Democrat challenger John Kerry made the President&#39;s decisive victory official when he conceded defeat in the crucial state of Ohio.
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President Bush&#39;s approval rating stands at 56 percent. Job losses since he took office reach 2.2 million. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
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President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry, go into the final 48 hours of the 2004 presidential campaign within easy reach of an electoral majority, but neither has a clear advantage in the remaining handful of tossup states.
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WASHINGTON - Who is likely to win on Election Day? Depends on which pollster you ask. President Bush leads Sen. John Kerry by a margin of 8 percentage points among likely voters, according to the most recent poll from Gallup, USA Today and CNN.
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The close presidential race nudged even closer in the latest ABC News tracking poll, with 49 percent of likely voters favoring George W. Bush and 48 percent for John Kerry - a
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President George W. Bush led John Kerry by 5 percentage points among likely voters in a Washington Post daily tracking poll. A Reuters/Zogby International poll taken during the same period showed the candidates about even.
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Poll results released on Monday were divided on who leads the U.S. presidential race, as two gave a slight edge to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and one showed a slim margin of voters favoring President Bush.
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A recount of the presidential election in Ohio that was finished on Tuesday showed that President Bush won the election here by about 300 fewer votes than initially recorded.
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WASHINGTONâA series of post-debate polls have given George W. Bush a lead of two-to-eight percentage points over Democratic nominee John Kerry as the two men head into the final 15 days of the presidential campaign.
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&quot;Four more years!&quot; chanted Republican faithful, who finally got to celebrate the US President George W. Bush's re-election after Democratic rival John Kerry conceded defeat.
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President Bush leads Democratic  rival John Kerry by two points heading into the final five days  of a tight race for the White House, according to a  Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
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US President George W. Bush confirmed his lead over Democratic rival John Kerry as a new opinion poll gave him a seven-point lead among likely voters less than two months before the November 2 election.
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Some highlights of preliminary data from exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in the Florida presidential primary Tuesday:
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President Bush defeated Democrat John Kerry in Iowa by roughly 10,000 votes &#151; or less than 1 percent of the 1.5 million ballots cast, according to unofficial election results.
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Less than seven weeks before the Election Day on Nov. 2, a poll published on Saturday showed President George W. Bush was leading his Democratic rival, Senator John Kerry