Shortly after the election, the UK's Daily Mirror headlined: "How can 59,054,087 People be so Dumb?" now that the vote counting is done, it seems that this headline has taken on a whole different meaning than what the UK Daily Mirror intended, look here for vote totals: election 2004 results George W. Bush 62,028,194 50.74% 286 electoral votes John F. Kerry 59,027,612 48.28% 251 electoral votes