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==The Election==

==The Election==

On election night, voter turnout was heavy, as the Democrats had hoped, but they underestimated the Republican turnout - which was heavier than expected.  [[Karl Rove]]'s strategy of getting gay marriage amendment propositions on the ballot in key states helped to get out the conservative base.  [[Exit polling]] was known to be unreliable as more Democrats than Republicans agree to talk afterwards, but this election truly highlighted that.  It began to leak on the internet that Kerry had won as the polling showed that he won Ohio by 5 points.  The networks believed that Kerry was going to be the next President and all they had to do was report it as it unfolded.  In the end George W. Bush won.  At first Kerry and [[John Edwards|Edwards]] refused to concede and, indeed, Edwards wanted to contest the election, but there were no close states like in 2000.  Their best bet, Ohio, was won by Bush with a margin of 120,000 votes.  Kerry conceded the next morning and Bush was re-elected as President.         

On election night, voter turnout was heavy, as the Democrats had hoped, but they underestimated the Republican turnout - which was heavier than expected.  [[Karl Rove]]'s strategy of getting gay marriage amendment propositions on the ballot in key states helped to get out the conservative base.  [[Exit polling]] was known to be unreliable as more Democrats than Republicans agree to talk afterwards, but this election truly highlighted that.  It began to [[leak]] on the internet that Kerry had won as the polling showed that he won Ohio by 5 points.  The networks believed that Kerry was going to be the next President and all they had to do was report it as it unfolded.  In the end George W. Bush won.  At first Kerry and [[John Edwards|Edwards]] refused to concede and, indeed, Edwards wanted to contest the election, but there were no close states like in 2000.  Their best bet, Ohio, was won by Bush with a margin of 120,000 votes.  Kerry conceded the next morning and Bush was re-elected as President.         

In a rare occurrence, it was found afterwards that Kerry hadn't spent all of the money in his war chest, having over $10 million that could have gone to last minute advertising.  The Democratic party was upset and Kerry never did explain why he allowed this to occur.

In a rare occurrence, it was found afterwards that Kerry hadn't spent all of the money in his war chest, having over $10 million that could have gone to last minute advertising.  The Democratic party was upset and Kerry never did explain why he allowed this to occur.