2004 United States Presidential Election (Season IV)

The **2004 United States Presidential election** was the 55th quadrennial election that took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Incumbent president Boris Starmer did not run for re-election. The Democratic ticket of Representatives Jason Walia and George David Johnson defeated the Republican ticket of Vice President Laramie Johnson and Representative Dick Cheney and Independent ticket of Former Senator Howard Dean and Fabian Sagerberg. Jason Walia and George David Jonson are the second and first sitting U.S. Representatives elected to the presidency and vice presidency, with Walia being preceded by James A. Garfield.

The election was a massive blow to the Republican Party facade built four years before, as then-president Madeline Bloomberg died of liver failure. After the inauguration of Starmer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation brought to light a child sex trafficking ring running out the White House, lead by the president and then-senator Duke Delgott, who resigned a week before the allegations were brought to news headlines in the nation.

Democrats sought to fight on a slightly more left version of their platform from 2000, including a national health program, lowering poverty and decreasing unemployment and finally taking the fight to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, something that the Republican administrations had yet to follow through on.

Jason Walia won a plurality of the popular vote with 21 states and 260 electoral votes. Laramie Johnson came in second with the popular vote and won 28 states and 236 electoral votes. Howard Dean won 2 states and 43 electoral votes, coming last in the popular vote. With no one getting a majority of the Electoral College, the House and Senate had to decide the winners. Jason was declared President-elect on the first ballot, while George David Johnson was declared the Vice President-elect on the first ballot.

## Primaries

### Democratic National Convention, 2004

Democratic Party Presidential Nominations, 2004

### 2004 Democratic Primaries

Jason Walia faced two challengers for the Democratic nomination, former Governor of Ohio Jason Miner, and Representative Sarah Sakana. The primary was headed to a contested convention when leaked documents disqualified Miner at the Democratic National Convention, and lead to Walia securing the nomination.

### Republican National Convention 2004

Republican Party Presidential Nominations, 2004

## 2005 Contingent Election

As no presidential candidate had won an absolute electoral vote majority, the responsibility for electing a new president devolved upon the U.S. House of Representatives, which held a contingent election on January 11, 2005. As prescribed by the Twelfth Amendment, the House was limited to choosing from among the three candidates who received the most electoral votes: Jason Walia, Laramie Johnson, and Howard Dean. Each Representative, votes were based on how many whole states were within their districts voted for each candidate. As there are 52 states, 27 are needed for a majority.

## Results

 Howard Dean
 *Others* | 131,138
 Total

### Close States

     Jason Walia

     Laramie Johnson

     Howard Dean

States where the margin was less than 1% (38 electoral votes)

1. **Illinois**: 0.056%
2. **Tennessee**: 0.8%
3. **Arkansas**: 0.95%

States where the margin was less than 5% (72 electoral votes)

1. **Arizona**: 1.26%
2. **Oklahoma**: 1.85%
3. **Massachusetts**: 3.75%
4. **North Carolina**: 3.86%
5. **South Carolina**: 4.51%
6. **Pennsylvania**: 4.75%

States where the margin was less than 10% (75 electoral votes)

1. **New Jersey**: 5.16%
2. **Wisconsin**: 6.13%
3. **Maine**: 7.59%
4. **New York**: 7.9%
5. **New Mexico**: 8.12%