Political Digest Bush wins Iowa; result has no effect
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With Bush holding a 12,000-vote advantage, Iowa election officials determined yesterday that there were not enough uncounted absentee votes for Kerry to overcome Bush&#39;s lead.
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President Bush stops to shake hands with supporters at the North Iowa Fairgrounds-All Season Building during a campaign rally Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004 in Mason City, Iowa.
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Mike Huckabee is reported the Republican winner in Iowa's caucuses, the start of the 2008 US presidential race.
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President Bush holds a slim  two-point lead on Democratic rival John Kerry in the stretch  run of a tight race for the White House, according to a  Reuters/Zogby poll released on Friday.
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The state's earliest caucus ever means that neither the candidates nor Iowa voters will get much of a holiday break
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(Des Moines, Iowa-AP, November 5, 2004) - Iowa&#39;s seven electoral votes fell into President Bush&#39;s column on Friday, the final state to be settled in this year&#39;s election.
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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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President Bush officially secured the GOP presidential nomination on Tuesday with the votes of delegates from Pennsylvania, the same battleground state Republicans hope will deliver a win come November over Democratic challenger John Kerry.
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Former alcoholic and functional illiterate George W. Bush has won re-election and will retain his office as 43th President of the United States of America, despite a proven inability to pronounce the word "nuclear".    The final tally of electoral votes was updated live throughout election day, 02 November 2004, by Andrew Tanenbaum of Electoral-Vote.com, where he stayed up all night hopefully tabulating the votes, only to sob bitterly at the sheer monstrous ratfuckery of it all.  He then asked to be excused to the bathroom, from which a single gunshot was later heard.
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President Bush beat Sen. John Kerry in Ohio by 118,775 votes, or just more than 2 percentage points, according to the official election results signed Monday by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.
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President Bush held on to a slim  lead in an ABC News poll released on Sunday, getting 50 percent  of the vote against 46 percent of likely voters who supported  his opponent, Sen. John Kerry.
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President Bush will begin his second term with an advantage he did not bring to his first: a mandate. Unlike in 2000, Bush won a popular-vote victory - a convincing one, unencumbered by judicial involvement.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa  - President Bush wrapped up a  five-day campaign swing with a rally in the battleground state  of Iowa on Saturday and scheduled a quick trip to Florida to  survey hurricane damage in a state he needs to win in the  November election.
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President Bush is shown during a campaign appearance in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite). NEW YORK Nov 3, 2004 - President Bush&#39;s victory in Tuesday&#39;s election is shaping
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DES MOINES, Iowa - President Bush signed his fourth tax cut in four years on Monday, extending three tax breaks popular with middle-class voters and reviving other tax incentives for businesses.    Bush held the bill signing ceremony at a YMCA in Iowa, one of the most contested states in this year's presidential election with Democrat John Kerry and a state Bush lost by a razor-thin margin in 2000...
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Los Angeles Times - PELLA, Iowa &#8212; In this week's frenzied competition to boost voter turnout, the quiet effort of companies like Vermeer Manufacturing could prove crucial for the Bush campaign.
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With a few notable exceptions, world leaders&#39; reaction to George W. Bush&#39;s electoral victory has been muted. As he declared victory on Wednesday afternoon, Bush said he is proud of his active international