2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Selection of the Democratic Party nominee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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From January 14 to June 8, 2004, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 2004 United States presidential election.
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Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 2004 Democratic National Convention held from July 26 to July 29, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts. Kerry went on to lose the general election on November 2, 2004, to incumbent Republican President George W. Bush.
A Democratic presidential primary held a few years after the September 11 attacks and new wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Democratic Party was seen as too soft on national security issues, and John Kerry, a veteran of the Vietnam War, won the trust of Democrats out of hope that his military record would refute this perception. Wesley Clark was another soldier who ran for President.