In 2000
Bush 50456169
Gore 50996116
Nader 2831066
Total 104283351
2004 to date:
Bush 59117523
Kerry 55557584
Total 114675107
What is interesting is that Democrats picked up Nader’s voters and improved the number of voters. Bush increased his turnout remarkably. This wasn’t a swing voter election, it was a turnout election and evangelicals turned out.
Does anyone know what the turnout was for the voting age population and of the registered voters? Are the 10,391,756 new voters as big a growth as predicted? (And I assume these are preliminary numbers as the votes are still being counted.)