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Bush holds the lead but Kerry campaign does not concede; dispute over Ohioʼs results draws similarities to the 2000 presidential election By RUDY GHARIB and RYAN TOWNSEND Daily Titan Elections Coordinator and Asst. News Editor
As of early Wednesday morning, the American people were without an official winner of the 2004 Presidential Election. While Bush led statistically, Kerry refused to concede defeat as both parties waited on the final results in Ohio. During the tumultuous closing weeks of the campaign, much of the buzz focused on young voters and the possibility that they might swing the contest. Despite efforts from celebrities and music television stations, the vaunted youth vote failed to materialize. Nationwide, the 18-29 turnout was roughly equal to the 2000 election. One in 10 voters cast ballots for the first time and fewer than 10 percent were young voters, contrary to what most experts had predicted. Kerry was favored by both groups, according to surveys conducted for The Associated Press by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. CSUF communications professor Nancy Snow predicted last week that the largest youth voter turnout in history would push John Kerry to victory. It turns out she was wrong, at least about the youth vote. “I was going to go out and kiss and hug everyone under 30 tonight (for voting),” she said. “So much for my prediction.” Snow wasnʼt entirely off; the youth vote in California rose from one in every seven voters to one in every five but the rest of the nation failed to match that progress. Snow said the Democratic Party was buoyed by what they believed would be a massive youth movement. Early Tuesday, the Democrats believed that Kerry was headed for a clear victory based on exit polls.
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Bob Mulholland, California Democratic Party spokesman, was confident on Tuesday afternoon. “You can bank on this, talking heads on the east coast will have to wait for Californiaʼs exit polls to declare John Kerry the winner,” he said. Near midnight Tuesday, that optimism had faded but party leaders held fast. Mary Gutierrez, communications director for California Democratic Party, said, “We havenʼt given up thatʼs for sure.” “Democrats tend to vote absentee and we tend to use most of the provisional ballots,” she said. “Weʼre staying firm and staying confident that we could be the winner.” Gutierrez said it could take several days for the party to assess whether or not voters were disenfranchised in Ohio. “Itʼs too soon to tell, itʼs been so chaotic and we need some time to find out,” she said. Karen Hanretty, communications director for the California Republican Party, was celebrating at Sutton Place in Newport Beach. “Weʼre very excited and optimistic about President Bushʼs chances for reelection and very pleased with the hard work of our volunteers,” she said. Hanretty said she believed that the election was all but over. “I really believe Bush is going to win with a solid lead and that the Democrats are not going to be successful in derailing this election with their army of lawyers and their strategy of litigation,” she said. Election day was full of surprises. Snow said Bushʼs moral values platform benefited him greatly, especially in rural America. She said, among the issues, moral values wound up rating as high or
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President Bush supporters Diana Watral, Sergio Domingues and Victoria Aleukhine listen as returns are discussed at an election rally early today at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. higher than the war on terror and the economy. One man in particular wasnʼt buying that rhetoric, Independent Candidate Ralph Nader, who received less than one percent of the vote, appeared on CNN to bash Bush and the two-party system. Naderʼs numbers dropped significantly from the 2000 election as he had to fight to get on the ballot in 29 states. “Heʼs just a big corporation disguised as a human being,” Nader said about the president. CSUF student Richard Taylor II, junior business and marketing
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Local Republicans and GOP leaders gathered to mingle and show their support for President George W. Bush last night at the Sutton Place Hotel in Newport Beach. The festivities began after the polls closed at 8 p.m. and a stretch of cars lined the hotelʼs driveway while others walked across the street to attend the party. The chandelier-lit ballroom in the hotel housed hundreds of Bush supporters who watched a Fox News Channel broadcast on a large projection screen as they awaited results from various states.
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Barbara Boxer
U.S. House of Rep. 47th Congressional District
Loretta Sanchez
59.6%
State Assembly 72nd District
Lynn Daucher
65.8%
State Senate 33rd District
Dick Ackerman
68.6%
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Compiled from The California State Registrar as of 1:30 a.m.
Democrats rally at Disney Sanchez is bright spot in an otherwise gloomy day for party By ASHLEE ANDRIDGE Daily Titan Staff
Democrats hoped for a fairy tale ending as they gathered at the Disneyland Hotel for an election night party on Tuesday. For U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, the incumbent running for the 47th
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Emotions fill the Newport Beach Sutton Place Hotel as Republicans cheer for President George W. Bush in the tight race for the presidency Tuesday. “Iʼm too short, I canʼt see a thing,” said Margherita Underhill, a State Assembly candidate for the 55th District, who stood on her toes as she looked toward the large screen at the front of the ballroom. Underhill said she attended the Newport Beach party with her volunteers from Long Beach after watching the polls earlier in the day. Underhill, an attorney, said she specializes in immigration cases, adding that as a Latino woman, she
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hopes to show a different face of the Republican Party. “Itʼs a big deal to be a woman nominee [as a Republican],” Underhill said. “I believe that the Republican Party reflects more of the Latino values, unlike the Democrats.” As she spoke, the crowd erupted with cheers as the televisions displayed leading voter percentages in Florida and Ohio around 9 p.m. REPUBLICAN 3
Congressional District, the end of the night proved to be just that — a fairy tale ending. Sanchez spoke to her audience, building their enthusiasm and thanking them for their support. Sanchez said she enjoyed seeing so many Democrats in one room and that with her re-election, she hopes such gatherings will become a future trend. “Orange County is changing,” Sanchez said. “Itʼs becoming less Republican and more even-handed
and itʼs good.” Joseph Dunn, state senator for the 34th District, also attended to show his support for the Democratic Party. Dunn said he hopes that after this election, things will begin to change, no matter what party people are affiliating with. “Weʼve got to stop this vicious partisanship that has settled into the nation at the federal and state level,”
The controversy stems from when Republican poll monitors were banned by two federal district judges from observing voting stations in areas considered to favor Democrats. The monitors were later given the go-ahead early Tuesday morning after an appeals court gave them the green light to do so. In anticipation of dramatics, and a fear that monitors would act unjustly, Moore had camera crews in Ohio and Florida, the last presidential electionʼs most dramatic
states. Just as Al Gore contested Florida in 2000, Kerryʼs campaign could be following the precedent in Ohio. Bush only had 537 votes more than Gore when the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to give Florida to Bush. Kerry has steeper hills to climb, over 100,000 of them. Even after 96 percent of votes were counted in the state, Bush enjoyed a lead of more than 100,000
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Focus shifts from Florida to Ohio
Presidential results halted over dispute in Buckeye state By ALI DORRI Daily Titan Staff
In a year when every swing state electorate was predicted to make the difference, all eyes, including Michael Mooreʼs cameras and John Kerryʼs legal council, converged on Ohio.
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