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2004 United States Senate election in North Carolina

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Field	Value
election_name	2004 United States Senate election in North Carolina
country	North Carolina
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1998 United States Senate election in North Carolina
previous_year	1998
next_election	2010 United States Senate election in North Carolina
next_year	2010
election_date	November 2, 2004
image_size	150x150px
image1	File:Richard Burr official portrait crop.jpg
nominee1	Richard Burr
party1	Republican Party (United States)
popular_vote1	1,791,450
percentage1	51.60%
image2	File:Erskine Bowles in 2010 (cropped).jpg
nominee2	Erskine Bowles
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	1,632,527
percentage2	47.02%
map_image
map_size	325px
map_caption	Burr:
Bowles:
Tie:
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	John Edwards
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Richard Burr
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

Bowles:
Tie: The 2004 United States Senate election in North Carolina was held on November 2, 2004. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John Edwards decided to retire from the Senate after one term in order to run unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic Party presidential nomination, and become his party's vice presidential nominee. Republican Richard Burr won the open seat, making it the fifth consecutive election in which partisan control of the seat changed.

Primaries

Democratic

Erskine Bowles won the Democratic Party's nomination unopposed. He had been the party's nominee for the state's other Senate seat in 2002.

Republican

General election

Candidates

Tom Bailey (L), Vietnam War veteran
Erskine Bowles (D), businessman and President Bill Clinton's chief of staff
Richard Burr (R), U.S. Representative from North Carolina's 5th congressional district since 1995

Campaign

Both major-party candidates engaged in negative campaign tactics, with Bowles' campaign attacking Burr for special interest donations and his positions on trade legislation, and Burr's campaign attacking Bowles for his connections to the Clinton administration. Both attacks had basis in reality: Burr's campaign raised funds from numerous political action committees and at least 72 of the 100 largest Fortune 500 companies, while Bowles departed from the Clinton administration in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Burr won the election by 4%. He joined the Senate in January 2005. Bowles went on to become the president of the UNC system.

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Sabato's Crystal Ball		November 1, 2004

Polling

Poll source	Date(s)
administered	Sample
size	Margin
of error	Richard
Burr (R)	Erskine
Bowles (D)	Other /
Undecided
SurveyUSA	October 29–31, 2004	616 (LV)	± 4.0%	50%	45%	5%

Results

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Duplin (Largest city: Wallace)
Franklin (Largest city: Wake Forest)
Haywood (Largest city: Waynesville)
Jones (Largest city: Maysville)
Madison (Largest city: Mars Hill)
Montgomery (Largest city: Troy)
Nash (largest municipality: Rocky Mount)
New Hanover (largest municipality: Wilmington)
Brunswick (largest municipality: Leland)
Greene (largest municipality: Snow Hill)
Person (largest municipality: Roxboro)
Pender (largest municipality: Hampstead)
Swain (largest municipality: Cherokee)
Washington (largest municipality: Plymouth)
Perquimans (Largest city: Hertford)
Camden (Largest city: Camden)
Dare (Largest city: Kill Devil Hills)
Forsyth (largest town: Winston-Salem)
Pitt (largest town: Greenville)
Lenoir (largest town: Kinston)
Alleghany (largest town: Sparta)
Beaufort (largest town: Washington)
Burke (largest town: Morgantown)
Cleveland (largest town: Shelby)
Craven (largest town: New Bern)
Pamlico (largest town: Bayboro)

Notes

References

"The Final Predictions".
[https://www.surveyusa.com/2004Elec.html SurveyUSA]
(April 2008). "North Carolina DataNet #46". [[University of North Carolina]].

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