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Due to the high voter turnout and lack of a strong third party candidate, George Bush's tally of over 62 million votes was the most in United States History and surpassed his winning total in 2000 by over 11 million votes.  John Kerry's 59 million was the second highest for a Presidential candidate, and, of course, the highest for a losing candidate. The relative closeness of the victory was due in part to lopsided Democrat victories in New York and California; ignoring these states, Bush beat Kerry by 5 1/2 percentage points in the remaining 48 states.

Due to the high voter turnout and lack of a strong third party candidate, George Bush's tally of over 62 million votes was the most in United States History and surpassed his winning total in 2000 by over 11 million votes.  John Kerry's 59 million was the second highest for a Presidential candidate, and, of course, the highest for a losing candidate. The relative closeness of the victory was due in part to lopsided Democrat victories in New York and California; ignoring these states, Bush beat Kerry by 5 1/2 percentage points in the remaining 48 states.

    

    

After the election, there were a number of allegations of voter fraud and irregularities by those who couldn't face that their candidate lost <ref>http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php</ref>, <ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/print</ref>, <ref>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/</ref>, <ref>http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2005/11/recounting_ohio.html</ref> and some [[Democratic]] poll workers were convicted of misconduct and failure to perform official duties in a vote rigging scheme to bypass a recount of Presidential election ballots.<ref>[http://www.therealitycheck.org/2007/11/10/2-convicted-for-ohio-vote-fraud-media-forgets-theyre-democrats/ Convicted for Ohio Vote Fraud, Media Forgets They’re Democrats], By Warner Todd Huston.  Retrieved from TheRealityCheck.org November 11, 2007.</ref><ref>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/01/19/ohio_county_presidential_recount_rigged_to_avoid_work_prosecutor_says/</ref>, but in the end it meant little to the overall scheme of how the election went.

After the election, there were a number of allegations of voter fraud and irregularities by those who couldn't face that their candidate lost,<ref>http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php</ref><ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/print</ref><ref>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/</ref><ref>http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2005/11/recounting_ohio.html</ref> and some [[Democratic]] poll workers were convicted of misconduct and failure to perform official duties in a vote rigging scheme to bypass a recount of Presidential election ballots.,<ref>[http://www.therealitycheck.org/2007/11/10/2-convicted-for-ohio-vote-fraud-media-forgets-theyre-democrats/ Convicted for Ohio Vote Fraud, Media Forgets They’re Democrats], By Warner Todd Huston.  Retrieved from TheRealityCheck.org November 11, 2007.</ref><ref>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/01/19/ohio_county_presidential_recount_rigged_to_avoid_work_prosecutor_says/</ref> but in the end it meant little to the overall scheme of how the election went.

Adding to a disappointing presidential election for the Democratic party, one of [[Minnesota]]'s electoral college members inexplicably cast his vote for [[John Edwards]] instead of Kerry. New York also made a mistake and gave their electoral votes to "John L. Kerry" instead of John F. Kerry.  The state electors gave a corrected set of results to the Senate.

Adding to a disappointing presidential election for the Democratic party, one of [[Minnesota]]'s electoral college members inexplicably cast his vote for [[John Edwards]] instead of Kerry. New York also made a mistake and gave their electoral votes to "John L. Kerry" instead of John F. Kerry.  The state electors gave a corrected set of results to the Senate.