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#FridayFact Answer

Today's #FridayFact (Monday edition) asked: Hillary Clinton received 65.8 million popular votes in 2016. How many did votes were cast for John Kerry during his loss in 2004?

You chose from the following answers:

• 49.3 million
• 57.3 million
• 59.0 million
• 63.7 million

The correct answer was 59.0 million.

2004 presidential election

In 2004, Bush defeated Democratic challenger John Kerry for the United States presidency.

U.S. presidential election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Electoral votes
	Republican	George W. Bush/Dick Cheney Incumbent	50.8%	62,039,572	286
	Democratic	John Kerry/John Edwards	48.3%	59,027,115	251
	Independent	Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo	0.4%	465,642	0
	Libertarian	Michael Badnarik/Richard Campagna	0.3%	397,265	0
	Constitution	Michael Peroutka/Charles Baldwin	0.1%	144,650	0
	Green	David Cobb/Pat LaMarche	0.1%	119,910	0
Total Votes				122,194,154	537
Election results via: 2004 Presidential General Election Results

Other candidates that appeared on the ballot received less than 0.1% of the vote. Those candidates included: Leonard Peltier, Walt Brown, Róger Calero, Thomas Harens, Gene Amondson, Bill Van Auken, John Parker, Charles Jay, Stanford Andress and Earl Dodge.