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The 2004 presidential election in the United States pitted Republican incumbent President George W. Bush against Democrat John Kerry. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2004 election, Mr. Bush won the majority of counties and county equivalents. Mr. Kerry won the popular vote in the most of the major urban centers with the exception of Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Salt Lake City, and Cincinnati, which were won by Mr. Bush. Mr. Kerry also won in along the Pacific coast in California, Oregon and Washington, northern Arizona, northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, along the southern half of the Mississippi River, extreme southern Texas, northern Minnesota, eastern Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin central Alabama, central South Carolina, and the majority of counties in New Jersey and the New England states. Mr. Bush won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Kerry won the counties of Hawaii.