How many people voted in the 2004 primary?

[VoteRonPaul2008]

and how many ron paul supporters across the country do you think there are?:confused:

[hellah10]

i voted... kucinich! :)

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

Not me. I was registered Libertarian and voted for Michael Badnarik.

[Myerz]

I voted....I voted for Bush! YAEH.....Hey Wait somebody slap me........Oooo...I kind of liked that.

[bobmurph]

I doubt very many at all in the GOP since GW was the incumbent GOP candidate.

[Myerz]

Is there any record of how many people voted in 2004?

[RP 247]

Is there any record of how many people voted in 2004?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004

[DanConway]

I was too young, but I doubt I would have.

[deltabourne]

I didn't, but I would have voted for Badnarik

[MikeStanart]

Not me. I was registered Libertarian and voted for Michael Badnarik.

Same here.

[VoteRonPaul2008]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004



Thanks for the link, do you happen to know how many people voted in the primary elections?

[terryp]

I voted rep in 2004.
Voted for McCain then Bush in 2000.
I've never been polled.

[grizzums]

34 years young and have never voted in a primary.

[mconder]

Voted for Peroutka.

[shadow26]

Voted for Peroutka.

Same here...Peroutka/Baldwin. By the way; Baldwin has a great video on YouTube endorsing Ron Paul for President.

[Paulitician]

Nope. Too young plus I thought I'd never really care about politics.

[skeet]

It was about 6%, (mostly) only strong Bush supporters voted on the GOP side. I was one of those Bush voters (sorry I was neo-con'd, & won't let it happen again) This is one reason why I believe the polls are way off, because that is who they are calling (for the most part)

[fuzzybekool]

<--- Haven't voted since 1984 - Ronald Reagan

[BirdsAreWild]

3 million people voted in 2004. The country has 300 million people in it. It is a very low percentage of people who actually vote.

Maybe we could start a request for people to donate $1 to a good cause. Then send them to ronpaul2007.com/donate We could make up a good website to promote for this. It would be easy to keep track of because it is right on the front page of the ronpaul2008 website showing how many people donated in the quarter. If we started this on January 1 we might get quite a few more people interested. Maybe make a site showing how sick our country is and that the operation that we need costs 1 million interested people and all we need each one to donate is $1. I am betting that we could get quite a few people to a site like that and most of the people who donated would donate more than that but even if they only donated a dollar at least we could count the people who support Ron Paul.

[VoteRonPaul2008]

^^Thanks for the info... I like your idea as well.. I suffered from apathy.. what caught my interest was a video that I accidently saw on youtube in one of the first debates.. where Paul stated we need to reevaulate our forien policy and they don't just attack us because we’re rich and free. I’m generally not a politically savvy person and I was planning on voting for Hillary Clinton (in the general only bc she’s a democrat and her husband was bill) but that one LINE won me over..

Ever since I discovered Paul, I’ve had heavy interest in politics. I think what Ron Paul supporters need to focus on is pointing out flaws of others candidates. This has been an effective method for me for converting.

[BrettCates]

I voted for Dennis as well....

[Paul4Prez]

and how many ron paul supporters across the country do you think there are?:confused:

You really need to look back to the 2000 primaries, since it wasn't really a contest in 2004. Here are some stats I found from 2000:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/PCC/Tabul.html

They included a summary of the primary and caucus popular vote:


Popular Vote Floor Vote Hard Total
Bush, George 12,089,564 62% 2,058. 100% 1,601. 77%
McCain, John 6,070,050 31% 1. 0% 243. 12%
Uncommitted 60,598 0% 205. 10%
Keyes, Alan 995,555 5% 6. 0% 14. 1%
Bauer, Gary 68,279 0% 1. 0%
Forbes, Stev 200,402 1% 2. 0%
others 18,083 0%
Hatch, Orrin 17,008 0%
abstention 1. 0%
---------- ---- ------- ---- ------- ----
TOTAL 19,519,539 100% 2,066. 100% 2,066. 100%


Looks like just under 20 million people voted in the Republican primary. Assuming 200 million Americans of voting age, and 100 million in each party (splitting independents), that's around 20% turnout.

Assuming 20% turnout this time, and guessing that 30% of the vote will be enough to win, given that there are 6 serious candidates instead of 2, Ron Paul would need 6 million votes, at least.

How many supporters does he have? If he's polling at 5% nationally, that would be around ten million. If his actual support is higher than the polls indicate, we're that much better off. Now if we can just get all of them to vote in the Republican primaries....

[icon124]

didnt vote in the primaries but did vote for kerry in the general....

[VoteRonPaul2008]

You really need to look back to the 2000 primaries, since it wasn't really a contest in 2004. Here are some stats I found from 2000:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/PCC/Tabul.html

They included a summary of the primary and caucus popular vote:




Looks like just under 20 million people voted in the Republican primary. Assuming 200 million Americans of voting age, and 100 million in each party (splitting independents), that's around 20% turnout.

Assuming 20% turnout this time, and guessing that 30% of the vote will be enough to win, given that there are 6 serious candidates instead of 2, Ron Paul would need 6 million votes, at least.

How many supporters does he have? If he's polling at 5% nationally, that would be around ten million. If his actual support is higher than the polls indicate, we're that much better off. Now if we can just get all of them to vote in the Republican primaries....

Very informative, thanks..