Editing Mini-Tuesday

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[[Image:Mini-Tuesday 2004.svg|thumb|320px|Seven states held caucuses or primary elections on Mini-Tuesday in 2004. <span style="color:Blue;">'''Blue'''</span> denotes Democratic-only contests (4) and <span style="color:Purple;">'''Purple'''</span> represents states holding elections for both parties (3).]]

'''Mini-Tuesday''' was the name given to the February 3, 2004 [[U.S. presidential primary]] where several [[U.S. state|states]], which to that point had participated in "[[Super Tuesday]]," cast their votes for the Presidential nominees of the [[U.S. presidential election, 2004|2004 Presidential election]].<ref name="USPEbbcn">
{{cite web
  | title      = Q&A: US primary elections
  | publisher  = [[BBC News]]
  | date       = 2008-01-10
  | url        = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7049207.stm
  | accessdate = 2008-01-12
  | quote = In 2004, Super Tuesday split in two. There was a Mini-Tuesday (or Super Tuesday I) on 3 February, followed by a Super Tuesday II on 2 March. }}
</ref><ref name="MTTTPtn">
{{Cite news
  | last        = Corn
  | first       = David 
  | author-link = David Corn
  | title       = Mini-Tuesday: Ten Talking Points
  | newspaper   = [[The Nation]]
  | date        = 2004-02-04
  | url         = http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=1233
  | accessdate  = 2008-01-12
  }}
</ref>  ''Mini-Tuesday'' was also called '''Super Tuesday I''' (with the March Super Tuesday called ''Super Tuesday II'', in reference to their respective chronological order).<ref name="USPEbbcn" />  With the large number of states moving their election dates up to Mini-Tuesday for the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 election]] cycle, pundits have largely shied away from using the term again, instead choosing to reappropriate the term "Super Tuesday" to better represent the primaries held on that approximate date.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} The date is also known as "[[Super Duper Tuesday]]," "Giga Tuesday," and "Tsunami Tuesday," among others, with the term "Mini Tuesday" falling to apparent disuse for the time being.<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Schneider 
  | first = Bill 
  | authorlink = Bill Schneider (journalist)
  | title = It could all be over after 'Super Duper Tuesday'
  | publisher = [[CNN]]
  | date = 2007-02-07
  | url = http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/05/schneider.superduper.tuesday/index.html
  | accessdate = 2007-06-03 }}</ref>

In 2004, [[U.S. presidential primary]] elections occurred in [[Missouri]], [[South Carolina]], [[Arizona]], [[Oklahoma]] and [[Delaware]].  Presidential [[caucus]]es were held in [[New Mexico]] and [[North Dakota]].  The Republican primaries and caucuses were virtually uncontested as incumbent President [[George W. Bush]] faced no substantial opposition.  The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General [[Wesley Clark]] of [[Arkansas]], former [[Governor of Vermont|Governor]] [[Howard Dean]] of [[Vermont]], [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[John Edwards]] of [[North Carolina]], Senator [[John Kerry]] of [[Massachusetts]], [[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] [[Dennis Kucinich]] of [[Ohio]], Senator [[Joseph Lieberman]] of [[Connecticut]], and the Reverend [[Al Sharpton]] of [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="MTTTPtn" />  Of the seven Democratic primaries contested, five were won by Kerry, reinforcing his status as frontrunner for the 2004 nomination.

==2004 Results==

===Missouri===
[[File:2004 Mini-Tuesday Democratic primary results.svg|thumb|The results of the 2004 Mini-Tuesday Democratic primary. Blue denotes states won by Kerry, green denotes states won by Edwards, and red denotes states won by Clark.]]
Kerry handily won the biggest prize of the day by securing 51% of the vote in Missouri.  Edwards placed second with 25%.  All other candidates were in the single digits.

''Democratic Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||211,737||50.6%||48
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||103,188|||24.7%||26
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||36,305||8.7%||0
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||18,328||4.4%||0
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||14,726|||3.5%||0
|-
|[[Al Sharpton]]||14,312||3.4%||0
|-
|[[Richard Gephardt]]||8,306||2.0%||0
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||4,876||1.2%||0
|-
|Uncommitted||4,316||1.0%||0
|}

''Republican Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
|-
|[[George W. Bush]]||117,007||95.1%
|-
|Bill Wyatt||1,268|||1.0%
|-
|Blake Ashby||981||0.8%
|-
|Uncommitted||3,830||3.4%
|}

''Libertarian Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
|-
|[[Gary Nolan (radio host)|Gary Nolan]]||874||45.2%
|-
|Ruben Perez||164|||8.5%
|-
|Jeffrey Diket||152||7.9%
|-
|Uncommitted||744||38.5%
|}

Source: [http://sos.mo.gov/enrweb/raceresults.asp?eid=104&oid=28567&arc= Missouri Department of State]

===South Carolina===
In a major victory, Edwards took his birth state of South Carolina, garnering 45% of the vote to Kerry's 30%.

''Democratic Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||126,320||45.0%||28
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||84,872||30.2%||17
|-
|[[Al Sharpton]]||26,946||9.6%||0
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||20,189|||7.2%||0
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||13,055||4.7%||0
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||6,853|||2.4%||0
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||1,246||0.4%||0
|-
|[[Richard Gephardt]]||604||0.2%||0
|-
|[[Carol Moseley Braun]]||569||0.2%||0
|}

''Republican Results:''

On January 19, 2003, the [[Republican National Convention]] announced that the South Carolina Republican Party had passed a resolution granting [[George W. Bush]] South Carolina's 46 delegates.

Source: [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P04/SC-D.phtml The Green Papers]

===Arizona===
Kerry made a strong showing in Arizona by winning the support of 43% of voters. Clark placed second with 27%. Arizona was the only state primary in which Dean acquired any delegates. His 14% share of the vote netted him just one delegate.

''Democratic Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||101,809||42.5%||30
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||63,256||26.7%||22
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||33,555||13.9%||3
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||16,596|||6.9%||0
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||15,906|||6.7%||0
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||3,896||1.6%||0
|-
|[[Al Sharpton]]||1,177||0.5%||0
|-
|[[Richard Gephardt]]||755||0.3%||0
|-
|[[Carol Moseley Braun]]||325||0.1%||0
|-
|[[Lyndon LaRouche]]||295||0.1%||0
|-
|Dianne Barker||257||0.1%||0
|-
|[[Bill Wyatt]]||233||0.1%||0
|}

''Republican Results:''

On March 12, 2003 - A state Senate committee in Arizona backed a Republican measure to save $3 million by forgoing that state's primary.  District and county conventions will be held in April.

Sources: [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20111101185008/http://www.azsos.gov/results/2004/ppe/DEM-100.htm Arizona Department of State], [http://www.thegreenpapers.com The Green Papers]

===Oklahoma===
Oklahoma was the most hotly contested state of ''Mini-Tuesday'' 2004.  Clark needed it to stay in the race, while Edwards wanted it so that he could walk away with two victories.  In the end, both candidates got 30% of the vote, with Clark slightly ahead of Edwards.  Kerry also placed strongly with 27%.

''Democratic Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||90,453||29.93%||15
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||89,234|||29.53%||13
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||81,015||26.81%||12
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||19,678|||6.51%||0
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||12,728||4.21%||0
|-
|[[Al Sharpton]]||3,939||1.30%||0
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||2,544||0.84%||0
|-
|[[Richard Gephardt]]||1,890||0.64%||0
|-
|[[Lyndon LaRouche]]||688||0.23%||0
|}

''Republican Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
|-
|[[George W. Bush]]||59,562||89.99%
|-
|Bill Wyatt||6,622|||10.01%
|}

Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20040203200159/http://www.elections.state.ok.us/04ppp.html Oklahoma Department of State]

===Delaware===
Lieberman took second place in Delaware with 11% of the vote.  However, as this was insufficient to gain him any delegates, he dropped out of the race after a bad showing in the other primaries.  Kerry carried the state with 50% of the vote and all thirteen delegates.

''Democratic Results:''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||16,787||50.4%||14
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||3,706|||11.1%||0
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||3,674||11.0%||0
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||3,462||10.4%||0
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||3,165|||9.5%||0
|-
|[[Al Sharpton]]||1,888||5.7%||1
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||344||1.0%||0
|-
|[[Richard Gephardt]]||187||0.6%||0
|-
|[[Lyndon LaRouche]]||78||0.2%||0
|}

''Republican Results:''

Regional meetings in April will choose delegates for a State Convention in mid-May.

Source: [http://www.thegreenpapers.com The Green Papers]

===Caucuses===
In both New Mexico and North Dakota, Kerry placed first by a wide margin and Clark came in second to score a small number of delegates.  Additionally, Dean achieved moderate success in New Mexico by netting 18% of the vote and three delegates.

''Democratic Results:''

'''New Mexico'''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||43,553||42.6%||14
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||20,883||20.4%||8
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||16,747||16.4%||4
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||11,440|||11.2%||0
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||5,638||5.5%||0
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||2,578|||2.5%||0
|-
|[[Richard Gephardt]]||653||0.6%||0
|-
|Uncommitted||479||0.5%||10
|-
|write-in /others||176||0.2%||0
|-
|Fern Penna||84||0.1%||0
|}

'''North Dakota'''

{| class="wikitable"
!Candidate
!Votes
!Percentage
!Delegates
|-
|[[John Kerry]]||5,366||50.8%||9
|-
|[[Wesley Clark]]||2,502||23.7%||5
|-
|[[Howard Dean]]||1,231||11.7%||4
|-
|[[John Edwards]]||1,025|||9.7%||0
|-
|[[Dennis Kucinich]]||308||2.9%||0
|-
|[[Joseph Lieberman]]||98|||0.9%||0
|-
|[[Al Sharpton]]||28||0.3%||0
|-
|Uncommitted||-||-||7
|}

''Republican Results:''

[[George W. Bush]] won all 26 of [[North Dakota]]'s Delegates to the [[Republican National Convention]] in the Republican Presidential Preference Caucus.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}

== See also ==
* [[Super Tuesday]]
* [[Super Tuesday (2008)]]

== References ==
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[[Category:2004 United States presidential primaries]]