2004 United States Presidential Election

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The 2004 United States presidential election was the 55th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. The Democratic ticket of Former Vice President Al Gore and Connecticut Senator Joe Liberman defeated Acting President Dick Cheney and Economist Alan Keyes in a crushing landslide victory. Gore had narrowly lost the 2000 Presidential Election after the Supreme Court halted the counting of votes in Florida and gave the election to George W. Bush. Bush had been the presumptive nominee in 2004 however in march of 2004 Bush fell into a comatose state after being nearly assassinated. The main issue of the election was the pushback from the Iraq and Afghan wars. This issue would come to a head when after the election Acting President Cheney and the Republican controlled Congress would push through annexation bills for both Iraq and Afghanistan to ensure Gore could not pull American troops out after being sworn in.