2004 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Electors
Technically the voters of Wisconsin cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Wisconsin is allocated 10 electors because it has 8 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 10 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 10 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.


2004 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2004 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 10 were pledged for Kerry/Edwards.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by a 39.8% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Bush would win, or otherwise considered as a safe red state. This was based on pre-election polling, the fact that the last Democrat to win here was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and how Bush carried this state in 2000 with almost 68% of the vote. On election day Bush won every county with over 65% except for Teton County, which Kerry won with 53% and Albany County, which Bush won with 54% of the vote.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming
With 68.86% of the popular vote, Wyoming would prove to be Bush's second strongest state in the 2004 election after neighboring Utah.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Campaign, Predictions
There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Campaign, Polling
Only one pre-election poll was conducted. It showed Bush leading Kerry 65% to 29%.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Campaign, Advertising and visits
Neither campaign advertised or visited this state during the fall campaign.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Analysis
Wyoming is a Republican bastion. The last Democrat to win a senate election was Gale W. McGee in 1970. The last Democrat to win the at-large seat was Teno Roncalio in 1978. The last time the Democrats controlled the Wyoming House of Representatives was 1966. The last time Democrats controlled the Wyoming Senate was 1938. The state, however, did elect Democratic governors from 1974 to 2010 with only an eight-year interruption of Jim Geringer's tenure from 1995 to 2003.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Analysis
In presidential elections, Wyoming is probably the most reliable red state in the country. The last Democrat to carry the state, or even crack the 40% mark, was LBJ in 1964, and before that was Harry Truman in 1948. Since 1968, every Republican carried this state by a double-digit margin of victory, except in 1992. As far as popular vote percentage, the 2004 results were the third best performance by the Republican party since 1964, behind only Richard Nixon (69.0%) in 1972 and Ronald Reagan (70.5%) in 1984. With regards to the margin of victory, the 2004 election (at 39.8%) was also the third best performance, behind only George W. Bush (40.1%) in 2000 and Ronald Reagan (42.3%) in 1984.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Analysis
CNN exit polls showed 72% of the state approved of Bush, and 69% approved of his decision to go to war.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Results breakdown, By congressional district
Due to the state's low population, only one congressional district is allocated. This district, called the At-Large district, because it covers the entire state, and thus is equivalent to the statewide election results.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electors
Technically the voters of Wyoming cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Wyoming is allocated three electors because it has one congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of three electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all three electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2004 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All three were pledged for Bush/Cheney.


2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
The 2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 2, 2004 as part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Prior to the election, Washington DC was considered to be a jurisdiction Kerry would win or safely blue.


2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
As expected, The District of Columbia voted by an extremely large margin in favor of the Democratic candidate John F. Kerry. John F. Kerry won DC by a margin of victory of 79.84% over the incumbent George W. Bush, more than any state. At the time, this was also the largest Democratic margin of victory over a Republican candidate in the history of the district, but has since been surpassed by all presidential elections since. The greatest victory margin of these subsequent years was in 2016.


2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
Such victory margins may perhaps be attributed to the fact that D.C. only encompasses an urban core area (and those are generally very liberal in nature). A recent San Francisco study based on the 2004 presidential election exit polls, ranked Washington, D.C. as the 4th most liberal city in the country. This information supports the fact that the District of Columbia has never voted for a Republican since the ratification of the 23rd Amendment.


2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, Electors
Technically the voters of D.C. cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. D.C. is allocated 3 electors. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 3 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 3 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.


2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2004 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from D.C. All were pledged to and voted for John Kerry and John Edwards.


2004 United States rugby union tour of Ireland and Italy
The 2004 United States rugby union tour was a series of matches played in Ireland and Italy 2004 in  by United States national rugby union team.


2004 United States rugby union tour of Ireland and Italy, Results
Ireland: 15.Geordan Murphy, 14.Shane Horgan, 13.Brian O'Driscoll  (capt. ), 12.Kevin Maggs, 11.Tommy Bowe, 10.David Humphreys, 9.Guy Easterby, 8.Eric Miller, 7.Denis Leamy, 6.Simon Easterby, 5.Paul O'Connell, 4.Donncha O'Callaghan, 3.John Hayes, 2.Frank Sheahan, 1.Marcus Horan,  - replacements: 17.Simon Best, 18.Leo Cullen, 19.Anthony Foley, 20.Peter Stringer, 20.Peter Stringer, 22.Girvan Dempsey    -  No entry : 16.Shane Byrne, 21.Ronan O'GaraUnited States: 15.Francois Viljoen, 14.Al Lakomskis, 13.Paul Emerick, 12.Salesi Sika, 11.David Fee, 10.Mike Hercus, 9.Mose Timoteo, 8.Kort Schubert (capt. ), 7.Tony Petruzzella, 6.Brian Surgener, 5.Gerhard Klerck, 4.Alec Parker, 3.Jacob Waasdorp, 2.Matt Wyatt, 1.Mike MacDonald,  - replacements: 19.Tasi Mo'unga, 20.David Williams, 22.Albert Tuipulotu       -  No entry: 16.Mike Hobson, 17.Chris Osentowski, 18.Jurie Gouws, 21.Matt Sherman


2004 United States rugby union tour of Ireland and Italy, Results
Italy: 15.Roland de Marigny, 14.Kaine Robertson, 13.Walter Pozzebon, 12.Cristian Stoica, 11.Ludovico Nitoglia, 10.Luciano Orquera, 9.Paul Griffen, 8.David dal Maso, 7.Silvio Orlando, 6.Enrico Pavanello, 5.Valerio Bernabo, 4.Cristian Bezzi, 3.Salvatore Perugini, 2.Fabio Ongaro (capt. ), 1.Andrea Lo Cicero,  - replacements: 17.Salvatore Costanzo, 18.Roberto Mandelli, 19.Antonio Mannato, 21.Andrea Scanavacca, 22.Matteo Barbini     -  No entry : 16.Giorgio Intoppa, 20.Pietro TravagliUnited States: 15.Francois Viljoen, 14.Al Lakomskis, 13.Paul Emerick, 12.Salesi Sika, 11.David Fee, 10.Mike Hercus, 9.Mose Timoteo, 8.Kort Schubert (capt. ), 7.Brian Surgener, 6.Jurie Gouws, 5.Gerhard Klerck, 4.Alec Parker, 3.Jacob Waasdorp, 2.Matt Wyatt, 1.Mike MacDonald,  - replacements: 17.Chris Osentowski, 19.Tasi Mo'unga, 20.David Williams, 22.Albert Tuipulotu      -  No entry: 16.Mike Hobson, 18.Matt Kane, 21.Matt Sherman


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures
The 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures - (Catalan: Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Spanish: Fórum Universal de las Culturas) was a 141-day international event that took place in the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB) and its surrounding venues, Barcelona, Spain from May 9 to September 26, 2004, and was the first edition of the Universal Forum of Cultures. The open space used by the event is now a public park called the Parc del Fòrum.


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, History
The 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures was organized by Barcelona's city council, the regional government (the Generalitat de Catalunya), the Spanish National Government and UNESCO. It was conceived by its prime mover (Pasqual Maragall, then Mayor of Barcelona) as a way of promoting the city's burgeoning tourist industry in the wake of the 1992 Olympic Games, which were also held in Barcelona. The forum was also politically useful, given the mayor's earlier failure to deliver on a 1996 promise to secure an international exposition for the city.


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, History
The official aims of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures included support for peace, sustainable development, human rights and respect for diversity.


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, History
The forum hosted more than 40 international conventions (participants included Juan Antonio Samaranch, Mikhail Gorbachev, José Saramago, Felipe González, Rigoberta Menchú, Angelina Jolie, Robert McNamara, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Lionel Jospin, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Romano Prodi and Salman Rushdie, among others), performances, markets, games, 423 concerts, 57 street performances, 44 theatre, dance and cabaret companies, 20 circus acts and over 20 exhibitions.


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, History
Josep Acebillo was named Director for Architecture and Infrastructures of the Forum. The events were held at the eastern end of Avinguda Diagonal, a main cross-city artery. The seaside area was developed to house the event. It covered 30 hectares between the Barcelona Olympic port and Sant Adrià de Besòs, and culminated the urban regeneration programme started for the 1992 Olympics. The new site comprises a convention center, central plaza, parks, auditoriums, a new port and a Forum Building (designed by architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron).


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, History
In the framework of this Forum, the 4th Porto Alegre Forum of Local Authorities for Social Inclusion was held, which approved the Agenda 21 for culture on 8 May 2004.


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, Exhibitions
The forum showed four thematic exhibitions, intended to achieve a renewal of ideas and attitudes toward the 21st century, by undertaking a careful analysis of cultural diversity, sustainable development and the conditions for peace:


2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, The place today
The central plaza and the open space surrounding forms a public area called Parc del Fòrum, and is now home to several massive events around the year, including the Primavera Sound Festival, Summercase, the Catalonia April Fair and the most popular concerts in La Mercè.


2004 Upper Normandy regional election
A regional election took place in Upper Normandy on March 21 and March 28, 2004, along with all other regions. Alain Le Vern (PS) was re-elected President of the Council.


2004 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 18 teams, and Danubio won the championship.


2004 Uruguayan Primera División, Championship Playoff
Nacional and Danubio qualified to the championship playoffs as the Apertura and Clausura winners, respectively


2004 Uruguayan Primera División, Championship Playoff, Second Leg
Danubio F.C. became champions by winning the qualifier and the annual table.


2004 Uruguayan constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum on an amendment dealing with public ownership of water supply was held in Uruguay on 31 October 2004 alongside simultaneous general election.


2004 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
The proposed amendment to the constitution dealt with the issue of water supply and sanitation, including a statement that access to piped water and sanitation were fundamental human rights, and that


2004 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
The amendment was supported by (victorious) presidential candidate Tabaré Vázquez and his Broad Front coalition. Friends of the Earth also supported the move, saying it "sets a key precedent for the protection of water worldwide, by enshrining these principles into the national constitution of one country by means of direct democracy."


2004 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Aftermath
In May 2005, the government stated that contracts with private water companies would be honoured until their expiry.


2004 Uruguayan general election
General elections were held in Uruguay on 31 October, alongside a constitutional referendum. The result was a victory for the Broad Front, marking the first time a party other than the Colorado Party or National Party had held power since the two parties were formed in the 1830s.


2004 Uruguayan general election
As a result of the Broad Front receiving more than 50% of the vote, its leader, Tabaré Vázquez, was elected president without the need for a second round. To date, this is the only time that a presidential election has been decided in a single round since the two-round system was introduced in 1999. The Broad Front also won majorities in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.


2004 Uruguayan presidential primaries
Presidential primary elections were held in Uruguay on 27 June 2004 in order to nominate the presidential candidate for every political party.


2004 Uruguayan presidential primaries, Candidates
One of the most important parties in terms of voter preferences, it had already decided to have only one candidate:


2004 Uruguayan presidential primaries, Candidates
The main candidate had already been decided between the most important political factions:


2004 Utah Democratic presidential primary
The 2004 Utah Democratic presidential primary was held on February 24 in the U.S. state of Utah as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2004 presidential election.


2004 Utah State Aggies football team
The 2004 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University as a member of the Sun Belt Conference in 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Aggies were led by fifth-year head coach Mick Dennehy and played their home games in Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah.


2004 Utah Utes football team
The 2004 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. This team was the original 'BCS Buster', meaning, this was the first time that a team from a BCS non-AQ conference was invited to play in one of the BCS bowl games. The team, coached by second-year head football coach Urban Meyer, played its home games in Rice-Eccles Stadium.


2004 Utah Utes football team
Utah finished the season 12–0, the fourth undefeated and untied season in school history. The Utes were one of three teams in the top-level Division I FBS to finish the season undefeated (the others being the USC Trojans and the Auburn Tigers.)


2004 Utah Utes football team
Utah was the highest-ranked BCS non-AQ team in each poll every week of the season.


2004 Utah Utes football team, After the season, NFL Draft
Utah had five players taken in the 2005 NFL Draft:


2004 Utah gubernatorial election
The 2004 Utah gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2004. The incumbent governor was Republican Olene S. Walker, who had become governor following Mike Leavitt's resignation to join the George W. Bush administration. However, Walker placed fourth in the Republican primary, far behind Jon Huntsman Jr. Huntsman won the nomination and went on to win the general election, carrying 25 of the 29 counties and winning 57.7% of the overall vote. This was the last time that a Democratic nominee for any statewide office has received forty percent or more of the popular vote, and the most recent election in which a Democratic nominee carried more than three counties in the state.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, Background
In March 2003, Huntsman resigned his post in the Bush administration. In mid-August, three term incumbent Governor Mike Leavitt, whom Huntsman strongly supported, decided not to run for re-election to a fourth term, in order to become the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Bush administration. Shortly thereafter, Huntsman filed papers to run for Governor of Utah. In November 2003, Lieutenant Governor Olene S. Walker became the Utah's first female governor as Leavitt was confirmed to become EPA Administrator.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination
Scott Matheson, Jr. entered the race on March 27, 2004. He won the May Democratic nomination unopposed.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Primary
Huntsman gained the endorsements from U.S. Senator Jake Garn and former U.S. President George H. W. Bush. Polls showed he was the front-runner.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
Jon Huntsman Jr., a former advisor for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush and son of industrialist Jon Huntsman, Sr.—the founder of Huntsman Chemical Corporation—filed papers to run for governor in September 2003. Jason Chaffetz was his campaign manager. In April 2004, Utah County Commissioner Gary Herbert decided to drop out of the Republican nomination and become Huntsman's running mate. Herbert helped Huntsman with the rural community. Huntsman campaigned on eliminating the sales tax on food and on ethics reform.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
He proposed that lawmakers have to disclose all their gifts, they have to report monthly their campaign contributions, and they can't work as lobbyists immediately after leaving state government. Huntsman opposed President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act. He said he would leave a label on the door of the governor's office "Economic Development Czar" if he's elected.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
U.S. Attorney, former Harvard University professor, and dean of the University of Utah law school Scott Matheson, Jr. won the Democratic nomination unopposed. He is the son of former Utah Governor Scott Matheson who was also the last Democrat to be elected governor of the red state of Utah. He made education the number one priority. He explained how better schools would attract new business. In one television ad, he called himself "Utah's Education Governor." He criticized Huntsman for supporting school choice reform.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, General election, Polling
In a March Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll, Matheson was leading all the Republicans running for the nomination except for Huntsman and Walker. An early September Jones poll showed Huntsman leading 49%-39%. An October 6 Salt Lake Tribune poll showed Huntsman leading 49%-33%. An October 7 Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll showed Huntsman only leading 49%-40%. An October 29 Salt Lake Tribune poll showed Huntsman leading 50%-36%.


2004 Utah gubernatorial election, General election, Fundraising
Huntsman raised a little over $3.5 million. Nearly $950,000 of the money raised was from his own personal loans and from family donations. He also raised 100,000 from the Republican Governors Association. Matheson raised almost $2.0 million. About one-fourth of Matheson's funds came from political committees, including $325,000 from the Democratic Governors Association.


2004 Uzbek League
The 2004 Uzbek League season was the 13th edition of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence from the Soviet Union in 1992. Pakhtakor were the defending champions from the 2003 campaign.


2004 Uzbek League, Overview
The season began on 4 March 2004 and concluded on 20 November 2004. The League reduced from 16 to 14 teams because Kokand 1912 and Dustlik were excluded from 2004 season for being unable to pay their debts to the UFF from the previous season (2003). Pakhtakor Tashkent won the championship.


2004 V-League
V-League 2004 was the 48th season of Vietnam's professional football league. Kinh Do was the league's sponsor, replacing PepsiCo.


2004 V-League
Hoàng Anh Gia Lai won their second title in this season.


2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series
The 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series was an Australian racing series for V8 Supercars. It began on 21 March 2004 at the Adelaide Street Circuit and ended on 5 December at Eastern Creek Raceway after 13 rounds. It was the sixth running of the V8 Supercar Championship Series. The series winner was also awarded the 45th Australian Touring Car Championship title by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport.


2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series
The championship was won by Marcos Ambrose of the Stone Brothers Racing.


2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams competed in the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series. The series comprised eleven sprint rounds and two endurance rounds (the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000) with each car driven by two drivers in the endurance rounds.


2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series, Results and standings, Race calendar
The 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series comprised 13 rounds which included 11 sprint rounds and two endurance rounds.


2004 V8 Supercar season
The 2004 V8 Supercar season was the 45th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.


2004 V8 Supercar season
There were 21 touring car race meetings held during 2004; a thirteen-round series for V8 Supercars, the 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series (VCS), two of them endurance races; a six-round second tier V8 Supercar series 2004 Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series (KVS) along with a non-point scoring race supporting the Bathurst 1000 and V8 Supercar support programme event at the 2004 Australian Grand Prix.


2004 V8 Supercar season, Results and standings, Race calendar
The 2004 Australian touring car season consisted of 21 events.


2004 V8 Supercar season, Results and standings, Netspace V8Supercars GP 100
This meeting was a support event of the 2004 Australian Grand Prix.


2004 V8 Supercar season, Results and standings, Konica Minolta V8Supercar Challenge
This race was a support event of the 2004 Bob Jane T-Marts 1000.


2004 VCU Rams men's soccer team
The 2004 VCU Rams men's soccer team represented Virginia Commonwealth University in all 2004 NCAA Division I men's college soccer competitions.


2004 VCU Rams men's soccer team
The 2004 season saw the Rams make their deepest-ever run in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, reaching the quarterfinals of the competition, before losing to eventual national runners-up, UC Santa Barbara. During their quarterfinal run, the Rams knocked off Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Tournament champions, George Washington, and the number one team in the country, Wake Forest. Outside of NCAA play, the Rams won the Colonial Athletic Association regular season title. It would not be until 2018 the Rams would again win a conference regular season championship.


2004 VCU Rams men's soccer team, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2004 VFL season
The 2004 Victorian Football League season was the 123rd season of the Australian rules football competition.


2004 VFL season
The premiership was won by the Sandringham Football Club, after defeating Port Melbourne by four points in the Grand Final on 19 September.


2004 VMI Keydets football team
The 2004 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute during the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season. It was the Keydets' 114th year of football, and their 2nd season in the Big South Conference.


2004 VMI Keydets football team
VMI went 0–11 on the year, failing to win a game in a season for only the third time in program history, and the first time since 1997 under Ted Cain.


2004 VTV International Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2004 VTV Cup Championship was the first edition of the tournament


2004 Vaahteraliiga season
The 2004 Vaahteraliiga season was the 25th season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between June 5 and August 23, 2004. The Finnish champion was determined in the playoffs and at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXV the Helsinki Roosters won the Turku Trojans.


2004 Valdosta State Blazers football team
The 2004 Valdosta State Blazers football team was an American football team that represented Valdosta State University as a member of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) during the 2004 NCAA Division II football season. In their fifth year under head coach Chris Hatcher, the team compiled a 13–1 record (9–0 against conference opponents) and won the GSC championship. The team advanced to the NCAA Division II playoffs and defeated Pittsburg State, 36–31, in the championship game.


2004 Valdosta State Blazers football team
Two Valdosta player were honored by the Associated Press on its 2004 Little All-America team: kicker Will Rhody (first team) and offensive lineman Torry Howard (third team). Other key players included quarterback Fabian Walker and running back Vincent Brown.


2004 Valdosta State Blazers football team
The Blazers played their home games at Bazemore–Hyder Stadium in Valdosta, Georgia.


2004 Vale of Glamorgan Council election
The 2004 Vale of Glamorgan Council election took place on Thursday 10 June 2004 to elect members of Vale of Glamorgan Council in Wales. This was the same day as many other local elections in Wales and England. The Conservatives remained the largest party but did not have a majority. The previous full council election was in 1999 and the next full council election was in May 2008.


2004 Vale of Glamorgan Council election, Overview
Council elections in Wales were originally scheduled for May 2003, but were delayed by a year to avoid a conflict with the 2003 Wales Assembly elections.


2004 Vale of Glamorgan Council election, Overview
Forty-seven seats were up for election in the Vale of Glamorgan. There was an increase in electoral divisions from 22 to 23 following The County Borough of The Vale of Glamorgan (Electoral Changes) Order 2002, which had divided the Alexandra ward into two new wards (and increased the representation in Sully to two councillors). The overall turnout (including spoilt ballots) was 44.4%.


2004 Vale of Glamorgan Council election, Election result
The Conservative Party remained the largest party following the election, though did not have a majority.


2004 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2004 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2004 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 29–31 October 2004 at the Circuit de Valencia.


2004 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, MotoGP classification
Kenny Roberts Jr. was replaced by Gregorio Lavilla after the first practice session due to injury.


2004 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (motoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round sixteen has concluded.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open
The 2004 Vancouver Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts that was part of the Tier V category of the 2004 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and took place in Vancouver, Canada from 9 August until 15 August 2004.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open
Nicole Vaidišová won the singles edition, whilst the American team of Bethanie Mattek and Abigail Spears emerged victorious in the doubles category.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open, Results, Doubles
Bethanie Mattek /  Abigail Spears defeated  Els Callens /  Anna-Lena Grönefeld, 6–3, 6–3


2004 Vancouver Women's Open – Doubles
This was the first WTA edition of the tournament; the previous editions were ITF events.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open – Doubles
Amanda Augustus and Mélanie Marois were the defending champions, but did not compete together in 2004. Augustus paired up with Natalie Grandin and lost in the quarterfinals; whilst Marois played with Marie-Ève Pelletier and lost in the first round.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open – Doubles
Americans Bethanie Mattek and Abigail Spears won the title, defeating Europeans Els Callens and Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the final in straight sets.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open – Singles
This was the first WTA edition of the tournament; the previous editions were ITF events.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open – Singles
Anna-Lena Grönefeld was the defending champion from 2003, but lost in the second round to Sessil Karatantcheva.


2004 Vancouver Women's Open – Singles
Nicole Vaidišová won the title, defeating Laura Granville in the final. At 15 years and 3 months of age, Vaidišová became the 6th youngest woman to win a Pro-level title, and the youngest since 1997.


2004 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 2004 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented the Vanderbilt University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Commodores offense scored 212 points while the defense allowed 268 points. Led by head coach Bobby Johnson in his third year as the head coach, the Commodores finished with a 2–9 record.


2004 Vanuatuan general election
General elections were held in Vanuatu on 6 July 2004. The VP-VNP coalition won the most seats, but failed to gain a majority, which instead was cobbled together by Serge Vohor of the Union of Moderate Parties, who became Prime Minister, subsequently forming a national unity government.


2004 Vanuatuan general election
However, after disagreements over establishing relations with Taiwan, he was removed from office by a motion of no confidence and replaced by the Vanuatu National United Party's Ham Lini.


2004 Vanuatuan general election
Nine women candidates took part in the election. Two were elected.


2004 Veikkausliiga, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and Haka Valkeakoski won the championship.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum
The Venezuelan recall referendum of 15 August 2004 was a referendum to determine whether Hugo Chávez, then President of Venezuela, should be recalled from office. The recall referendum was announced on 8 June 2004 by the National Electoral Council (CNE) after the Venezuelan opposition succeeded in collecting the number of signatures required by the 1999 Constitution to effect a recall.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum
The result of the referendum was not to recall Chávez (59% no), but there have been allegations of fraud. In 2004, a report by election observers rejected the hypothesis of fraud, but statistical evaluations released in 2006 and 2011 disagreed. Former United States president Jimmy Carter and his Carter Center, all groups which had observed the referendum, and other analyses denied fraud, saying the referendum was performed in a free and fair manner. Some individuals have disputed the center's endorsement of the electoral process in the referendum. The Carter Center looked into the allegations and released a paper and statistical analysis reaffirming their original conclusions.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition
The recall mechanism was introduced into Venezuelan law in 1999 under the new Constitution drafted by the National Constituent Assembly and sanctioned by the electorate in a referendum. Under its provisions, an elected official can be subjected to a recall referendum if a petition gathers signatures from 20% of the corresponding electorate. Thus, to order a presidential recall vote in 2004, 2.4 million signatures were needed - 20% of the national electorate.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, Constitutional basis
The recall referendum is provided for in two articles of the 1999 Constitution:


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
In August 2003, about 3.2 million signatures were presented by Súmate, a Venezuelan volunteer civil association, founded in 2002. These signatures were rejected by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on the grounds that they had been collected prematurely; i.e., before the midpoint of the presidential term.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
In September 2003, The Economist reported that the government used a "rapid reaction" squad to raid the offices of CNE (the government body overseeing the petition drive), where the petitions were stored.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
In November 2003, the opposition collected a new set of signatures, with 3.6 million names produced in four days. The CNE rejected the petition, saying that only 1.9 million were valid, while 1.1 million were dubious and 460,000 completely invalid. Reaction to the decision to reject the petition (for the second time) resulted in riots that led to nine dead, 339 arrested, and 1,200 injured.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
The petitioners appealed to the Electoral Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The court reinstated over 800,000 of the disputed signatures, bringing the total to 2.7 million, above the 2.4 million needed to authorise the referendum. However, about a week later, the Constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court overturned the Electoral chamber's ruling alleging that the latter did not have jurisdiction for that ruling.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
The list of signatories was subsequently collected by the government.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
The names of petition signers were posted publicly online in what became known as the Tascón List. The president of the Venezuelan Workers Confederation was quoted by the Associated Press as claiming that the Chávez government had begun dismissing petition signers from government ministries, the state oil company, the state water company, the Caracas Metro, and public hospitals and municipal governments controlled by Chávez's party. The Associated Press also quoted Venezuela's Health Minister as justifying petition related layoffs by saying "all those who have signed to activate the recall referendum against President Chávez should be fired from the Health Ministry". He retracted these remarks several days later by saying that they were his own personal opinions and not a matter of public policy.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
As a compromise, the CNE set aside five days in May 2004 to allow the owners of disputed signatures to confirm that they did, in fact, back the referendum call: this was known as the reparo process. At the end of that verification effort, the total number of signatures stood at 2,436,830, according to the CNE. Thus, the target had been reached and the referendum could take place. During that time, thousands of forged ID cards and equipment to create forged ID cards were confiscated by the police. Supporters of Chávez believed that the opposition used these to forge signatures. The opposition claimed that the equipment and the ID cards were planted.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, The signature collection drive
The CNE later admitted that 15,863 signatures of those signatures that were verified in May 2004 belonged to people who had died in 2003.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, Timing
The date chosen for the recall referendum was significant: had the recall vote been held on 19 August or later, Chávez would have been into the fifth year of his six-year term and had he been voted out, Vice President José Vicente Rangel would have taken over and served out the rest of Chávez's presidency (in accordance with Article 233 of the Constitution, above).


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, The petition, Timing
With the vote called for 15 August, Chávez was not yet into the last two years of his term in office; an unfavourable result would therefore have meant the calling of fresh presidential elections within the following 30 days. Chávez had expressed his clear intention to stand in the election, had he been recalled; the opposition factions, however, maintained that he would have been disqualified from doing so.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Campaign
Between late May 2004, when the CNE set the referendum date, and 15 August, the date chosen, a contentious campaign took place, with both sides convinced of victory.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Campaign, Polls
Although support for Chávez had been low in 2003 and early 2004, polling data showed a shift as the campaign got under way. Most polls, including those by firms linked to the opposition which had showed low support for Chávez in 2003 and early 2004, predicted a rejection of the recall in the weeks before the referendum.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Campaign, Polls
Numerous pre-referendum polls, both by opposition and by pro-Chávez groups, during the previous months and weeks predicted the No vote to win by a margin of between 5% and 31%. For example, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (GQR) Inc. and DATOS, both commissioned by the opposition, found margins in favour of No by 5% and 12% respectively in June 2004; Datanálisis found a margin of 14% in favour of Chávez in June. On 11 August, Robert Jensen wrote that recent polls ranged from 8% to 31% for margins in favour of the No vote.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Ballot
For the recall to be successful, there were three conditions:


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day
Polling stations opened at 6 am Venezuelan time on 15 August 2004. Later in the day, faced with a 70% turnout, lengthy queues of waiting voters, and delays exacerbated by the use of novel electronic voting equipment and fingerprint scanners, the electoral authorities agreed to extend the close of voting twice: a four-hour extension of the deadline that took it to 8 p.m., followed by an additional four hours announced later in the evening, which took it to midnight.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day
A record number of voters turned out to defeat the recall attempt with a 59% "no" vote. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who was in Venezuela to observe the electoral process, said of the patiently waiting Venezuelan electors, "This is the largest turnout I have ever seen." In previous presidential elections, turnout figures were at an average 55%.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day
All Venezuelans aged 18 and up whose names appear on the electoral roll were eligible to vote, including those residing abroad: polling stations were set up in Venezuelan embassies and consulates abroad.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day, Parody recording
At 3:50pm local time on 15 August, CNE rector Jorge Rodríguez and CNE president Francisco Carrasquero announced on national television that they had found an audio CD where a faked voice of Carrasquero declared that the opposition has won the referendum with a total of 11,436,086 "yes" votes, and that Chávez's mandate was thereby revoked. Since this was several hours before the closing of the polling booths, and since Carrasquero declared the recording to be fake, this appeared to be a case of attempted sabotage of the referendum. The attorney-general was called on to conduct a full inquiry into the incident and to locate and arrest those responsible for the spurious audio recording.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day, Parody recording
Journalist Fausto Malavé told the Venezuelan opposition press that the recording was an evident parody that had been circulating in city streets for at least two months, claiming that it was surprising that it was only brought to public attention then. He also expressed concern at the significance that was attributed to it by the CNE.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day, Exit poll
Coordinadora Democrática commissioned an exit poll from the American firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland, which showed Chávez losing by a 60–40 margin. PSB used volunteers from Súmate, a NGO which was the primary organizer of the recall referendum, and involved around 200 polling places out of 8500. With over 20,000 responses the exit poll produced a much larger amount of data than most opinion polls (typically around 1000 responses), leading to an extremely low sampling error.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Referendum day, Exit poll
Publication or broadcast of exit polls was banned by electoral authorities, but results of the PSB poll went out to media outlets and opposition offices several hours before polls closed. Jimmy Carter said that Súmate "deliberately distributed this erroneous exit poll data in order to build up, not only the expectation of victory, but also to influence the people still standing in line".


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Result
The preliminary result was announced on 16 August 2004 on national television and radio after 94% of the vote had been counted.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Result
According to these early-morning results, the first condition (a quorum of 25% of the electorate) had been satisfied. The second condition (more votes against Chávez than he received in 2000) would probably be satisfied. However, the third condition (a simple majority: more people voting "yes" than "no") had clearly failed.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Allegations of electoral fraud
After the preliminary results were broadcast, the opposition Coordinadora Democrática declared that fraud had taken place, stating that its own data (the Penn, Schoen & Berland exit poll, which was performed by volunteers from Sumate, the NGO which had organized the referendum) put the "Yes" vote at 59% and the "No" vote at 40%. Their exit poll showed the opposite result to the official voting data, predicting that Chávez would lose by 20%, whereas the election results showed him to have won by 20%. A poll company representative, Schoen commented, "I think it was a massive fraud".


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Allegations of electoral fraud
Coordinadora Democrática also told the press that no opposition representation was present when the votes were counted and that the physical ballots had not yet been taken into account.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Allegations of electoral fraud
Election observers insisted that no fraud had taken place, but scholarly analyses published over the years to come disagreed. A statistical study by Maria M. Febres Cordero and Bernardo Márquez was published in 2006 in a peer-reviewed academic statistics journal. The study used cluster analysis to review differences in vote patterns between voting certificates on the basis that voters were randomly assigned to certificates (each voting center had on average 2 or 3 certificates, typically for computerised and manual voting systems). It concluded: "[ The] Venezuelan opposition has statistical evidence to reject the official results given by the CNE. The irregularities detected were observed consistently in numerous voting centers and the magnitude of the irregularities imply that the official results do not reflect the intention of voters with statistical confidence." They estimated that 56.4% had voted yes to recall Chavez, as opposed to the official result of 41%.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Allegations of electoral fraud
The presence of systemic election fraud was also supported by six analyses in a special section in the November 2011 issue of Statistical Science. Raquel Prado and Bruno Sansó examined the exit polls; Luis Raul Pericchi and David A Torres examined the no-votes against the Newcomb-Benford law; Isbelia Martin discovered anomalous patterns in telecommunications; Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto I. Rigobón analyzed patterns related to exit polls; Raúl Jiménez examined the distribution of valid votes, null votes, and abstentions in each precinct; while Gustavo Delfino and Guillermo Salas reported on the anomalous relation between signatures requesting the recall, and the yes-votes. The section is introduced by an article written by Alicia L. Carriquiry. One of the papers, by Hausmann and Rigobón, was a later version of a paper disputed by the Carter Center, and contains a response to that criticism.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Allegations of electoral fraud
Some individuals have disputed the center's endorsement of the electoral process in the Venezuelan recall referendum of 2004. Fox News' Doug Schoen told Michael Barone at U.S. News and World Report, "Our internal sourcing tells us that there was fraud in the Venezuelan central commission. There are widespread reports of irregularities and evidence of fraud, many of them ably recorded by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in The Wall Street Journal last week. Carter is untroubled by any of this, and declares that Chavez won 'fair and square.'" The Carter Center looked into the allegations and released a paper and statistical analysis reaffirming their original conclusions.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Process endorsements
The day before the polling, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter expressed confidence that the vote would proceed in a calm and orderly fashion. Carter commented that, "I might project results that will be much more satisfactory than they were in 2000 in Florida".


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Process endorsements
On the afternoon of 16 August 2004, Carter and OAS Secretary General César Gaviria gave a joint press conference in which they endorsed the preliminary results announced by the CNE. The monitors' findings "coincided with the partial returns announced today by the National Elections Council" said Carter, while Gaviria added that the OAS electoral observation mission's members had "found no element of fraud in the process". Directing his remarks at opposition figures who made claims of "widespread fraud" in the voting, Carter called on all Venezuelans to "accept the results and work together for the future". The Carter Center "concluded the results were accurate."


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Process endorsements
The U.S. Department of State accepted that the results of the subsequent audit were "consistent with the results announced by (Venezuela's) National Electoral Council." John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, added that the results of the referendum "speak for themselves", saying that the quest for Venezuelan democracy "does not end with a single electoral process or referendum" and urging the "democratically elected government of Venezuela to address and recognize the legitimate concerns, rights, and aspirations of all of its citizens". Regarding the recall effort, in testimony before the U.S. Senate, Maisto also pointed out that Carter had said that " 'expression of the citizen must be privileged over excessive technicalities' in resolving issues surrounding the tabulation of the signatures".


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Process endorsements
European Union observers did not oversee the elections, saying too many restrictions were put on their participation by the Chávez administration.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Analyses
Economists Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard University and Roberto Rigobón of the MIT Sloan School of Management performed a statistical analysis at Súmate's request, analyzing how fraud could have occurred during the referendum. They concluded that the vote samples audited by the government were not a random representation of all precincts, noting that the Chávez-backed CNE had "refused to use the random number generating program offered by the Carter Center for the 18 August audit and instead used its own program installed in its own computer and initialed with their own seed."


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Analyses
They also noted that opposition witnesses and international observers were not allowed near the computer hub on election day. According to the Wall Street Journal, a computer-science professor at Johns Hopkins University said, "The Hausmann/Rigobon study is more credible than many of the other allegations being thrown around."


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Analyses
The Carter Center looked into the allegations and released a paper with a statistical analysis in response; this stated that the audit sample data, in particular the statistical correlation between the number of "Yes" voters and the number of petition signatories in each audited voting centre, were consistent with nationwide results, and reaffirmed the Carter Center's earlier conclusions.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Analyses
The Center for Economic and Policy Research drew on the Carter Center analysis and elaborated on the issue, criticising Hausmann and Rigobón's statistical model. Furthermore, the CEPR analysis noted that "although Hausmann and Rigobón's analysis does not require this data to be accurate, it does require that its errors be uncorrelated with those of the signatures, something that cannot be assumed without any verifiable knowledge or observation of where the data came from.


2004 Venezuelan recall referendum, Disputes, Analyses
Javier Corrales writes in the Foreign Policy Magazine that the opposition was "shocked not so much by the results as by the ease with which international observers condoned the Electoral Council's flimsy audit of the results." The sample for the audit was selected by the government controlled National Electoral Council, and according to the opposition was not of sufficient size to be statistically reliable.


2004 Venezuelan regional elections
The 2004 regional elections of Venezuela were held on 31 October 2004 to elect 22 governors and 2 metropolitan mayors for a four-year term beginning in 2004 and ending in 2008, when the next regional elections were held. The elections were originally scheduled for 26 September 2004, but faced technical issues and an application for annulment requested by the opposition, and were held under high political pressure after the events of the recall referendum of August 2004. The ongoing political crisis in the country and the proximity of the two electoral processes marked the environment of the elections, which were won by the candidates supported by the president, Hugo Chavez.


2004 Venezuelan regional elections
A total 1,577 political organizations participated in the elections; however, abstention levels reached 52%. As a result, the opposition held two of the 22 governments but lost the Caracas and capital district mayorships. Henrique Salas Römer, who ran as a presidential candidate in 1998, lost the government of Carabobo to Luis Acosta Carlez. Claudio Fermin, who run for precedency in the elections of 2000, had no success at the metropolitan mayorship of Caracas, losing to Juan Barreto. Opposition candidate and incumbent governor Enrique Mendoza, who was considered as a possible future presidential candidate, lost the elections of the Miranda state to Diosdado Cabello. Manuel Rosales, who would later run for presidency in the elections of 2006, became the governor of the Zulia state.


2004 Venezuelan regional elections, Candidates
Following, the list of three main candidates according to their political affiliation (government, opposition and dissident or independent) ordered by number of votes attained. The political affiliation is determined by the political parties supporting each candidate. For the 2004 elections, government candidates were supported by the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) party; opposition candidates were supported by either Democratic Action (AD), Justice First Movement (PJ), A New Era (UNT), or the Political Electoral Independent Organization Committee (COPEI) party; and independent candidates were mostly supported by regional parties.


2004 Vermont Democratic presidential primary
The 2004 Vermont Democratic presidential primary was held on March 2 in the U.S. state of Vermont as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2004 presidential election.


2004 Vermont elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Vermont on November 2, 2004. All of Vermont's executive officers were up for election as well as Vermont's at-large seat in the U.S. House and Class 3 U.S. Senate seat. The 2004 presidential election was also held at the same time.


2004 Vermont elections, Lieutenant Governor
Incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Brian E. Dubie (since 2003) ran again for a second term.


2004 Vermont elections, Lieutenant Governor, Progressive primary
Steve Hingtgen, member of the Vermont House of Representatives from Chittenden 7-2 (1999-2003) and Chittenden 3-3 (2003-2005), ran unopposed in the Progressive primary.


2004 Vermont elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent Democratic Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz (since 1999) ran unopposed for a fourth term.


2004 Vermont elections, Secretary of State, Republican primary
Markowitz also ran unopposed in the Republican primary as a write-in candidate.


2004 Vermont elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Democratic Treasurer Jeb Spaulding (since 2003) ran unopposed for a second term.


2004 Vermont elections, Treasurer, Republican primary
Spaulding also ran unopposed in the Republican primary as a write-in candidate.


2004 Vermont elections, Attorney General
Incumbent Attorney General William H. Sorrell (since 1997) ran again for a fifth term.


2004 Vermont elections, Attorney General, Liberty Union nomination
After losing the Progressive primary, Boots Wardinski ran unopposed for the Liberty Union State Committee's nomination.


2004 Vermont elections, Attorney General, Libertarian nomination
After losing the Republican primary, Karen Ann Kerin, Republican candidate for U.S. Representative in 2000 and 2002, ran unopposed for the Libertarian State Committee's nomination.


2004 Vermont elections, Attorney General, Grassroots nomination
James Mark Leas ran unopposed for the Grassroots State Committee's nomination.


2004 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts
Incumbent Democratic Auditor Elizabeth M. Ready (since 2001) ran again for a third term.


2004 Vermont elections, Auditor of Accounts, Liberty Union nomination
Jerry Levy, Liberty Union nominee for Treasurer in 2002, U.S. Senate in 2000, 1998, 1994, 1992, 1988, 1986, and 1982, Vermont Secretary of State in 1984, and Auditor in 1980, ran unopposed for the Liberty Union State Committee's nomination.


2004 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 2004 Vermont gubernatorial election took place November 2, 2004 for the post of Governor of Vermont. Incumbent Republican Governor Jim Douglas was re-elected. Douglas defeated Peter Clavelle, the Progressive Mayor of Burlington who ran as a Democrat.


2004 Vermont gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
Clavelle attempted to link Douglas and President George W. Bush with bumper stickers saying "Jim = George". Douglas countered this by a willingness to criticize the national Republican Party, such as over the Bush administration's environmental policies.


2004 Vermont gubernatorial election, General election, Campaign
The two main candidates faced each other in 18 debates during the campaign.


2004 Videocon Cup
The Videocon Cup was the name of the One Day International cricket tournament in the Netherlands during August 2004. It was a tri-nation series between Australia, India and Pakistan. All matches took place at the VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen. The tournament preceded, and acted as a warm-up for, the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy.


2004 Videocon Cup
The tournament was disrupted by rain, with only one of the three group stage matches reaching a conclusion. Australia refused to reschedule their two washed-out group matches, and qualified for the final without completing a game.


2004 Videocon Cup
By beating India in the opening match, Pakistan also qualified for the Final. Australia beat Pakistan in the Final to win the series.


2004 Videocon Cup
Shoaib Malik of Pakistan emerged as the top run-scorer with 104 runs, with an average of 52.00; Matthew Hayden of Australia followed close behind with 88 runs. Lakshmipathy Balaji of India finished the series as top wicket-taker capturing 6 wickets, with Shahid Afridi of Pakistan taking 4.


2004 Vietnamese National U-18 Football Championship
The 2004 Vietnamese National U-18 Football Championship is the first edition of the Vietnamese National U-18 Football Championship, the annual youth football tournament organised by the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) for male players under-18


2004 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 2004 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10). The Wildcats were led by 20th-year head coach Andy Talley and played their home games at Villanova Stadium. They finished the season with an overall record of six wins and five losses (6–5, 3–5 in the A-10).


2004 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 2004 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Al Groh. They played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia.


2004 Virginia Democratic presidential primary
The 2004 Virginia Democratic presidential primary took place on February 10, 2004 as part of the 2004 United States Democratic presidential primaries. The delegate allocation is Proportional. the candidates are awarded delegates in proportion to the percentage of votes received and is open to anyone. A total of 82 (of 98) delegates are awarded proportionally. A 15 percent threshold is required to receive delegates. Frontrunner John Kerry won the primary with Senator John Edwards obtaining over 20% and receiving delegates.


2004 Virginia Democratic presidential primary, Analysis
Kerry won most of the counties and all the congressional districts in the state. His key to victory was winning Fairfax County with almost 56% of the vote. Fairfax had by far the largest turnout in the state. Edwards won several counties in the southern portion of the state, including his best performance in Wythe County, which he won with almost 58%. Clark's best performance was by far in Lynchburg City, which he obtained almost 24% of the vote. Dean's strongest performance was in Albemarle County, where he obtained almost 12% of the vote.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
The 2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football represented the Virginia Tech in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Virginia Tech won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship in its inaugural year in the conference, running off a streak of eight straight wins to end the regular season after a 2–2 start. Tech finished 10th in the final Associated Press poll with a 10–3 record. The team's head coach was Frank Beamer, who was named ACC Coach of the Year.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
Virginia Tech began the season unranked nationally, having suffered a meltdown at the end of the 2003 season. The Hokies faced a daunting schedule, beginning with a nationally televisioned game against the defending national co-champion USC Trojans. That game, known as the BCA Classic, was the first NCAA college football game of the year, and would be followed by a tough conference schedule.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
Tech lost to eventual BCS National Champion USC at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, 24-13, losing the lead late in the third quarter. After a 63-0 shellacking of Western Michigan, Tech played its first ever ACC game on September 18, against Duke. Tech prevailed 41-17 in Lane Stadium. The Hokies dropped to 2-2 following a 17-16 home loss to N.C. State, in which the Hokies missed a would-be winning field goal as time expired. The team then needed to win five of its next eight games to extend its 11-season streak of playing in a post-season bowl game.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
After reeling off three-straight wins, including a 19-13 squeaker over then #7 West Virginia, the Hokies' fortunes looked bleak in the fourth quarter of their game against Georgia Tech in Atlanta on ESPN Thursday night college football. Tech was down 14-0 at one point and trailed 20-12 with 5:28 left in the fourth quarter. Tech racked up 22 unanswered points to exterminate the Yellow Jackets.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
Tech would go on to win their remaining regular-season games, including a 24-10 win over then #16 Virginia in Lane Stadium and a 16-10 away victory over then #9 Miami, to clinch the ACC Championship. As ACC Champions, Virginia Tech was awarded a bid to the 2005 Sugar Bowl, a Bowl Championship Series game in New Orleans, Louisiana. Virginia Tech faced Auburn, a team that had gone undefeated in the regular season but was denied a bid to the national championship game by virtue of its lower rank in the BCS poll. In a game that was not decided until the final two minutes, Virginia Tech lost to Auburn 16-13.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
Tech was led by quarterback Bryan Randall during the season. Randall was named ACC player of the Year.


2004 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Personnel, Roster
Starters are in bold and players who left the team are struck out Players who sat out during 2004 ("redshirted") are indicated with a "red shirt" icon


2004 Virginia ballot measures
The 2004 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 2, 2004, the same day as the Presidential and the U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were two constitutional referendums to amend the Virginia State Constitution. Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held. All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.


2004 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1
The Apportionment Act amendment clarifies provisions concerning the effective date and implementation of decennial redistricting laws, especially when political vacancies occur.


2004 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2
The Succession to the Office of Governor Act amendment clarifies who will become the acting Governor of Virginia in the event of a sudden death, resignation, or other emergency circumstance. It adds the acting Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, and majority leader of the Virginia Senate to the list of officials that would succeed the Governor in such an instance (after the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, the Attorney General of Virginia, and the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, which were already part of the list of succession). The amendment also allows the Virginia General Assembly to temporarily waive certain eligibility requirements in order for the Attorney General, Speaker, or acting Speaker to serve as acting Governor in the event of an emergency.


2004 Vodacom Cup
The 2004 Vodacom Cup was the 7th edition of this annual domestic cup competition. The Vodacom Cup is played between provincial rugby union teams in South Africa from the Currie Cup Premier and First Divisions.


2004 Vodacom Cup, Competition
There were seven teams participating in the 2004 Vodacom Cup competition and another seven teams participating in the 2004 Vodacom Shield competition. Teams would play all the other teams in their competition once over the course of the season, either at home or away.


2004 Vodacom Cup, Competition
Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that score four or more tries in a game, as well as to teams losing a match by seven points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).


2004 Vodacom Cup, Competition
The top two teams in each competition qualified for the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the teams that finished first in each competition had home advantage against the teams that finished fourth and the teams that finished second in each competition had home advantage against the teams that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals then played each other in the final.


2004 Vodacom Cup, Competition
All the teams in the Vodacom Shield competition rejoined the Vodacom Cup competition for 2005.


2004 Vodacom Cup, Teams, Team Listing
The following teams took part in the 2004 Vodacom Cup competitions:


2004 Vojvodina provincial election
First round of the Vojvodina provincial elections was held on September 19, 2004, at the same time when the local elections were held in the whole of Serbia (with the exception of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo).


2004 Vojvodina provincial election
Second round of elections was held on October 3, 2004.


2004 Vojvodina provincial election, Rules
There are 120 MPs in Vojvodina's Parliament. One half (60 MPs) is elected based on a proportional representation one-round system, according to which Vojvodina is one electoral unit. Voters choose between several Parties, Coalitions or Citizen Groups. The other 60 MPs are elected based on majority two-round system, according to which Vojvodina is divided into 60 electoral units in a way that every county gives at least one MP. Some larger electoral units, like the cities of Novi Sad, Subotica, Zrenjanin etc., give more (from 2 up to 7). In this case, voters choose between more candidates. A candidate can win in first round if he/she gets more than 50%+1 votes of those who voted. If none gets enough votes, the two strongest candidates go to the second round, in which the one with more votes wins.


2004 Vojvodina provincial election, Rules
The election threshold for Parties, Coalitions and Citizen's Groups is 5%, except for Parties of minority groups (Hungarians, Croats, etc. ), for whom the threshold is smaller, but not smaller than the number of votes necessary to get one MP. According to the law, on all lists of Parties, Coalitions and Citizen's Groups at least 30% of the proposed MPs must be women.


2004 Vojvodina provincial election, Results
* Have joined the Democratic Party group of deputies in the Assembly


2004 Vojvodina provincial election, Results
A governing coalition was formed comprising the Democratic Party, Together for Vojvodina, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, and Strength of Serbia Movement, which together hold 66 seats in the Assembly - a majority of 12.


2004 Vojvodina provincial election, Results
Democratic Party Vice-President Bojan Pajtić was elected President of the Executive Council and Bojan Kostreš from the League of Vojvodina Social Democrats was elected President of the Assembly.


2004 Volta a Catalunya
The 2004 Volta a Catalunya was the 84th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 14 June to 20 June 2004. The race started in Salou and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero of the Saunier Duval–Prodir team.


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Teams
Fifteen teams of up to eight riders started the race:


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 1
14 June 2004 - Salou to Salou, 18.1 km (11.2 mi) (TTT)


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 2
15 June 2004 - Salou to Horta de Sant Joan, 145.4 km (90.3 mi)


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 3
16 June 2004 - Les Borges Blanques to Col de Pal, 200.7 km (124.7 mi)


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 4
17 June 2004 - Llorts to Ordino-Arcalis, 12.4 km (7.7 mi)


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 5
18 June 2004 - Llívia to Blanes, 180.8 km (112.3 mi)


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 6
19 June 2004 - Blanes to Vallirana, 148.1 km (92.0 mi)


2004 Volta a Catalunya, Stages, Stage 7
20 June 2004 - Olesa de Montserrat to Barcelona, 132.8 km (82.5 mi)


2004 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
The 2004 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana was the 62nd edition of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana road cycling stage race, which was held from 24 to 28 February 2004. The race started in Xàbia and finished in Valencia. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde of the Comunidad Valenciana–Kelme team.


2004 Volvo PGA Championship
The 2004 Volvo PGA Championship was the 50th edition of the Volvo PGA Championship, an annual professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was held 27–30 May at the West Course of Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, a suburb southwest of London.


2004 Volvo PGA Championship
Scott Drummond won by two strokes ahead of Ángel Cabrera.


2004 Vorarlberg state election
The 2004 Vorarlberg state election was held on 19 September 2004 to elect the members of the Landtag of Vorarlberg.


2004 Vorarlberg state election
The Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) regained the absolute majority it had lost in 1999, achieving a strong swing of 9 percentage points. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) lost more than half its vote share and seats, falling to third place behind the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which gained four points. The Greens also gained four points and doubled their seat count from two to four.


2004 Vorarlberg state election
The repeal of compulsory voting resulted in a huge decline in voter turnout, which fell from 87% to 60%. As a result, only the Greens actually gained votes compared to 1999; the ÖVP lost 7,000 votes, the SPÖ 200, and the FPÖ 33,000. According to voter analysis conducted by the SORA Institute, only 28% of the FPÖ's voters from 1999 voted for the party again in 2004, while more than half did not vote at all.


2004 Vorarlberg state election, Background
In the 1999 election, the ÖVP lost its absolute majority for the first time in history. The FPÖ achieved its best ever result, taking support from the ÖVP and SPÖ. The ÖVP subsequently formed a coalition with the FPÖ.


2004 Vorarlberg state election, Electoral system
The 36 seats of the Landtag of Vorarlberg are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. The seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the districts of Vorarlberg. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must either win at least one seat in a constituency directly, or clear a 5 percent state-wide electoral threshold. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota, with any remaining seats allocated at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.


2004 Vorarlberg state election, Contesting parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag.


2004 Vorarlberg state election, Contesting parties
In addition to the parties already represented in the Landtag, four parties collected enough signatures to be placed on the ballot.


2004 Voyageurs Cup
The 2004 Voyageurs Cup was the third Voyageurs Cup tournament which was started by the Canadian supporters group The Voyageurs. The 2004 Edition of the competition featured the expansion Edmonton Aviators as well as the four 2003 teams: Calgary Storm (now Calgary Mustangs), Montreal Impact, Toronto Lynx and Vancouver Whitecaps.


2004 Voyageurs Cup
Similar to the 2003 Voyageurs Cup competition Montreal Impact built up an early lead with three wins and a draw in the competition's first four games that the other teams could not overcome even though Montreal Impact only clinched their third Voyageurs Cup in a row in their last match with a 2–0 over Edmonton FC on Aug. 25 (the competition's penultimate match).


2004 Voyageurs Cup, Format
The competition was set up on the league principle with each team playing two matches (home and away) against each other team for a total of eight matches per team. The entire competition totaled twenty matches. All matches were part of the 2004 USL A-League regular season with the last home and away matches included when more than two matches were played due to the unbalanced league schedule. In each match, 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 point is awarded for a draw, and 0 points are awarded for a loss. The five teams are ranked according to the total number of points obtained in all matches.


2004 Voyageurs Cup, Format
The team ranked highest after all matches have been played was the champion awarded the 2004 Voyageurs Cup.


2004 Vuelta Ciclista de Chile
The 27th edition of the Vuelta Ciclista de Chile was held from March 11 to March 21, 2004.


2004 Vuelta a Andalucía
The 2004 Vuelta a Andalucía was the 50th edition of the Vuelta a Andalucía (Ruta del Sol) cycle race and was held on 15 February to 19 February 2004. The race started in Huelva and finished in Almería. The race was won by Juan Carlos Domínguez.


2004 Vuelta a Asturias
The 2004 Vuelta a Asturias was the 48th edition of the Vuelta a Asturias road cycling stage race, which was held from 12 May to 16 May 2004. The race started and finished in Oviedo. The race was won by Iban Mayo of the Euskaltel–Euskadi team.


2004 Vuelta a Burgos
The 2004 Vuelta a Burgos was the 26th edition of the Vuelta a Burgos road cycling stage race, which was held from 2 August to 5 August 2004. The race started and finished in Burgos. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde of the Comunidad Valenciana–Kelme team.


2004 Vuelta a Castilla y León
The 2004 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 19th edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León cycle race and was held on 28 April to 2 May 2004. The race started in Belorado and finished in Villafranca del Bierzo. The race was won by Koldo Gil.


2004 Vuelta a Castilla y León, Teams
Thirteen teams of up to eight riders started the race:


2004 Vuelta a Colombia
The 54th edition of the Vuelta a Colombia was held from June 6 to June 20, 2004.


2004 Vuelta a España
The 59th Edition of Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 4 September to 26 September 2004. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 2,925 km (1,818 mi), and was won by Roberto Heras of the Liberty Seguros cycling team.


2004 Vuelta a España
Halfway through the 2004 Vuelta, it appeared it would become an easy win for Heras, but in the last week his fellow countryman Santiago Pérez won two heavy mountain stages, thus becoming an important rival. Eventually Heras won with only 30 seconds advantage on Pérez. Pérez and Phonak hearing systems teammate Tyler Hamilton would later test positive for blood doping from blood samples taken during the race. Francisco Mancebo, also from Spain took third. The first non-Spaniard was Stefano Garzelli from Italy in 11th.


2004 Vuelta a España
The points classification was won by Erik Zabel from Germany, the mountains classification was won by Félix Cárdenas from Colombia and the combination classification was won by Roberto Heras. Kelme was the winner of the team ranking. Alessandro Petacchi, an Italian sprinter won four stages, but he did not finish the Vuelta.


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2004 Vuelta a España was the 59th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in León, with a team time trial on 4 September, and Stage 11 occurred on 14 September with a stage to Caravaca de la Cruz. The race finished in Madrid on 26 September.


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
4 September 2005 — León to León, 28 km (17 mi) (TTT)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
5 September 2004 — León to Burgos, 207 km (129 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
6 September 2004 — Burgos to Soria, 156 km (97 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
7 September 2004 — Soria to Zaragoza, 167 km (104 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
8 September 2004 — Zaragoza to Morella, 186.5 km (115.9 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
9 September 2004 — Benicarló to Castellón de la Plana, 157 km (98 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
10 September 2004 — Castellón de la Plana to Valencia, 170 km (110 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
11 September 2004 — Almussafes to Almussafes, 40.1 km (24.9 mi) (ITT)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
12 September 2004 — Xàtiva to Alto de Aitana, 162 km (101 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
13 September 2004 — Alcoy to Xorret de Catí, 174.2 km (108.2 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
14 September 2004 — San Vicente del Raspeig to Caravaca de la Cruz, 165 km (103 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2004 Vuelta a España was the 59th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in León, with a team time trial on 4 September, and Stage 12 occurred on 16 September with a stage from Almería. The race finished in Madrid on 26 September.


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
16 September 2004 — Almería to Calar Alto Observatory, 145 km (90 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
17 September 2004 — El Ejido to Málaga, 172 km (107 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
18 September 2004 — Málaga to Granada, 167 km (104 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15
19 September 2004 — Granada to Sierra Nevada, 29.6 km (18.4 mi) (ITT)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
21 September 2004 — Olivenza to Cáceres, 190.1 km (118.1 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17
22 September 2004 — Plasencia to La Covatilla, 170 km (110 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
23 September 2004 — Béjar to Ávila, 196 km (122 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19
24 September 2004 — Ávila to Collado Villalba, 142 km (88 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
25 September 2004 — Alcobendas to Puerto de Navacerrada, 178 km (111 mi)


2004 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
26 September 2004 — Madrid to Madrid, 28 km (17 mi) (ITT)


2004 Vuelta a Murcia
The 2004 Vuelta a Murcia was the 20th professional edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 3 March to 7 March 2004. The race started and finished in Murcia. The race was won by Alejandro Valverde.


2004 Vuelta a Venezuela
The 41st edition of the annual Vuelta a Venezuela was held from August 30 to September 12, 2004. The stage race started in Puerto la Cruz, and ended in Maracaibo.


2004 WABA Champions Cup
The WABA Champions Cup 2004 was the 7th staging of the WABA Champions Cup, the basketball club tournament of West Asia Basketball Association. The tournament was held in Damascus, Syria between April 12 and April 16. The top two teams qualify for the 2004 FIBA Asia Champions Cup.


2004 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2004 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament  was held in the Save Mart Center at Fresno State in Fresno, California. The winners of the tournament were the #1 seeded Nevada Wolf Pack.


2004 WAFF Championship
The 2004 West Asian Football Federation Championship took part in Iranian Capital of Tehran. Iran won the final against Syria 4–1. The 6 entrants were Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan. The finals took place between 17 and 25 June 2004.


2004 WAFL season
The 2004 WAFL season was the 120th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League.


2004 WAFL season
Subiaco, after eleven unsuccessful finals campaigns including six in succession, won its first premiership since Haydn Bunton, Jr. took them to the 1988 flag, whilst Swan Districts, largely clear of their severe financial troubles from the 1990s, played finals for the first time in a decade. During late May and June, perennial tailender Perth looked like playing finals for only the fourth time since 1979, but faltered badly in July and August.


2004 WAFL season
The wooden spoon went to East Fremantle for the first time since their debut season of 1898, with three wins being the Sharks’ worst record since that debut year when they won one match of sixteen (though they also lost seventeen matches in 1968 and 1970). The blue and whites suffered from two narrow losses and a botched resignation by coach Rod Lester-Smith which was unannounced but definite before East Fremantle's Round 13 game against Subiaco. 2003 premiers West Perth, suffering a crippling injury toll, fell to seventh, which remains their lowest position since the great revival under Jeff Gieschen in 1993.


2004 WAFL season
The most notable occurrence during the season was Peel Thunder being recognised with a scoreless match for the first time in any major Australian Rules league since Subiaco failed to score against South Fremantle in August 1906, due to having their score of 10.10 wiped when former Fitzroy and Subiaco rover Peter Bird was ruled to have not been cleared for that opening match.


2004 WAFL season
Despite this setback and losing their first eight matches, the Thunder managed to avoid the wooden spoon with five wins being their third-best record in eight seasons and still their equal fifth-best in the WAFL as of 2014. Peel also won the Colts premiership with a major upset against South Fremantle in the Grand Final.


2004 WAFL season
The season was also notable for the Lions moving their home games to the redeveloped Leederville Oval and for the first night games at that ground, both of which were viewed as resounding successes at a time when the WAFL was struggling with its reduced profile.


2004 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 6
Subiaco kick fifteen goals without Peel scoring after the winless and crippled Thunder led 6.4 (40) to 2.5 (17) early in the second quarter.


2004 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 10
Peel win their first match for 2004 with hard running and strong tackling at the finish after South Fremantle took the lead coming from several goals down throughout most of the second half.


2004 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 11
Perth, despite lacking a ruckman after Nigel Edwards was injured, climb to third with their win over South Fremantle, who held on until late in the last quarter but were only briefly on top during the third.


2004 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13
In a violent match won well by Perth after half-time, Peel allege Daniel Haines was struck twice and that their treatment by WAFL umpires is unfair compared to the older clubs.


2004 WAFL season, Finals, Semi-finals
In their first final since 1994 Swan Districts repel conclusively a third-quarter Bulldog challenge with six straight last quarter goals, three of them from Adam Lange. Swans wingman Craig DeCorsey kicks six goals, five in the first half.


2004 WAFL season, Finals, Semi-finals
Subiaco dominate Claremont throughout the first three quarters, and Brad Smith becomes the first WAFL/Westar Rules player to kick 100 goals since Jon Dorotich in 1997.


2004 WAFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Sam Larkins provides a perfect antidote to Claremont’s targetting of leading goalkicker Smith, and the Tigers do not take control at any stage, as eight unanswed goals in the second half ensure Subiaco’s first premiership since 1988.


2004 WAFL season, Notes
Mother of then-current players Brendon and Adam Logan, and wife of former premiership player Ian Logan. Smith was drafted by West Coast, but knee injuries meant he never played a single AFL match. The ‘Prestige Loans Award’ was given to the club with the best result between Rounds 15 and 23, during which the nine WAFL clubs played each other once.


2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 45th conference playoff in league history and 50th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2004 tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 2004, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.


2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference schools participated in the tournament with teams seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.


2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.


2004 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: PTS = Points; GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


2004 WDF Europe Cup
The 2004 WDF Europe Cup was the 14th edition of the WDF Europe Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Tampere, Finland from 27 Aug-30 Aug.


2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
The 2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was a golf tournament that was played from February 25–29, 2004 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. It was the sixth WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the first of four World Golf Championships events held in 2004.


2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
Tiger Woods won his eighth World Golf Championships event, and his second match play back-to-back, by defeating Davis Love III 3 and 2 in the 36 hole final.


2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Brackets
The Championship was a single elimination match play event. The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings, seeded according to the rankings. Ernie Els (ranked 3) withdrew from the event, electing to stay home because his daughter was to start school in London the next week. Jim Furyk (ranked 5) withdrew because of a wrist injury and Kirk Triplett (ranked 42) also withdrew for personal reasons. They were replaced by Briny Baird (ranked 65), Shingo Katayama (ranked 66) and John Rollins (ranked 67).


2004 WGC-American Express Championship
The 2004 WGC-American Express Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from 30 September to 3 October 2004 at Mount Juliet Golf Course in Thomastown, Kilkenny, Ireland. It was the fifth WGC-American Express Championship tournament and the third of three World Golf Championships events held in 2004.


2004 WGC-American Express Championship
Ernie Els won the tournament for his first of two WGC titles, which lifted him to second in the Official World Golf Ranking. Tiger Woods was the 2-time defending champion but finished in 9th place.


2004 WGC-NEC Invitational
The 2004 WGC-NEC Invitational was a golf tournament that was contested from August 19–22, 2004 over the South Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the sixth WGC-NEC Invitational tournament, and the second of four World Golf Championships events held in 2004.


2004 WGC-NEC Invitational
Stewart Cink won the tournament to capture his first World Golf Championships title.


2004 WGC-World Cup
The 2004 WGC-World Cup took place 18–21 November at the Real Club de Golf de Seville in Seville, Spain. It was the 50th World Cup and the fifth as a World Golf Championship event. 24 countries competed and each country sent two players. The prize money totaled $4,000,000 with $1,400,000 going to the winning pair. The English team of Paul Casey and Luke Donald won. They won by one stroke over the home Spanish team of Sergio García and Miguel Ángel Jiménez.


2004 WGC-World Cup, Qualification and format
18 teams qualified based on the Official World Golf Ranking and were joined by six teams via qualifiers in South America and Asia.


2004 WGC-World Cup, Qualification and format
The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players. The first and third days were fourball play and the second and final days were foursomes play.


2004 WNBA Finals
The 2004 WNBA Finals was the championship series of the 2004 WNBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Seattle Storm, second-seeded champions of the Western Conference, defeated the Connecticut Sun, top-seeded champions of the Eastern Conference, two games to one in a best-of-three series. This was Seattle's first title.


2004 WNBA Finals
The Storm made their first appearance in the Finals in franchise history. The Sun made their first appearance in the Finals in franchise history.


2004 WNBA Finals
Going into the series, neither team had won a WNBA championship. The Houston Comets hold the record with four championships won.


2004 WNBA Finals
The Storm had a 20–14 record (.588), good enough to receive home-court advantage over the Sun (18–16).


2004 WNBA Finals
The 2004 Finals was the last time two teams had entered the series without having participated in them before.


2004 WNBA Finals, Road to the finals, Regular season series
The Sun and the Storm split the regular season series:


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Katie Douglas and the Connecticut Sun took care of business at home to open the WNBA Finals. Douglas overcame an early ankle injury to score 18 points as the Sun held on for a 68–64 victory over the Seattle Storm, taking a 1–0 lead in the best-of-three championship series. The win was Connecticut's fifth straight after opening the postseason with a loss.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Douglas, who suffered a minor ankle sprain in the first half, nailed three 3-pointers and hit a pair of free throws in the closing seconds to finish the scoring.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Wendy Palmer had 16 points and Lindsay Whalen chipped in 11 and a franchise playoff-record nine assists for the Sun, who used a 14-7 run to close the first half to grab a 33-29 lead at intermission.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Connecticut built its edge to 63-47 on a bucket by Asjha Jones with 7:20 remaining and survived a late 16–5 run by the Storm to get a win in its WNBA Finals debut.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 1
Betty Lennox scored 17 points and Lauren Jackson had 16 for Seattle. Lennox nailed a 3-pointer with 17 seconds remaining to pull the Storm to within two points, but they failed to convert their final three shots before the final buzzer.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Betty Lennox won her shootout with Nykesha Sales and extended the WNBA Finals to a decisive game.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Lennox scored 27 points as the Seattle Storm survived a record-setting performance by Sales and held on for a 67–65 victory over the Connecticut Sun that evened the WNBA Finals at one game each.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Lennox made 11-of-16 shots. She scored 16 points in the second half, when the Sun - who never led - erased a 13-point deficit and tied the game.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Sales, who set a WNBA Finals record with 32 points, sank a jumper that evened it, 57–57, with 5:20 to go. Lennox answered with four points in a 6–0 burst that gave the Storm the lead for good.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Katie Douglas made a 3-pointer to halve the deficit before Lennox made a jumper at the 1:41 mark. Sales had a steal and layup, but Lennox's foul line jumper pushed the lead to 67-62 with 51 seconds remaining.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Sales made a 3-pointer before Lennox missed a jumper and Connecticut forced a jump ball. The Sun gained possession with 3.1 seconds left and ran a play for Sales, who hit the side of the backboard with a potential game-winning 3-pointer from the right corner.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Lauren Jackson had 15 points and 11 rebounds and Sue Bird scored 10 points for the Storm, who improved to 4–0 at home in the postseason. They drew 17,072 to KeyArena for this one.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 2
Douglas scored 14 points for the Sun, who had won five straight playoff games but stumbled early in this one. They fell behind, 22–10, midway through the first half and trailed, 35–30, at halftime.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
The Seattle Storm got to the WNBA Finals behind stars Lauren Jackson and Sue Bird. They won their first title behind a player picked off the scrap heap.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Betty Lennox scored 16 of her 23 points in the second half as the Storm won the WNBA championship with a 74–60 triumph over the Connecticut Sun in the decisive third game.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Acquired in the dispersal draft from the defunct Cleveland Rockers, Lennox outshined Jackson, acknowledged as the best player in the world, and Bird, a star point guard. Lennox averaged 22.3 points in the series to earn Most Valuable Player honors.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Jackson collected 13 points and seven rebounds while Bird added eight - all in the second half - and six assists.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Playing in front of their second straight sellout crowd of 17,072, the Storm improved to a perfect 5-0 at KeyArena in the postseason. They won their last two series after losing the opener on the road.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
After Nykesha Sales hit two free throws to cut Seattle's lead to 51–46 with 13:05 left, the Storm went on a 13–2 run capped by Lennox's driving layup with 6:15 to go.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Led by center Kamila Vodichkova, who scored 12 of her 14 points in the opening half, Seattle never trailed, opening a 26–14 lead with 10:17 left. Connecticut answered with a 15–3 surge over the next seven minutes to tie the game.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
But the Sun went cold in the second half, missing 18 of 23 shots. Shooting guard Katie Douglas characterized the team's poor shooting, finishing 0-of-11 from the floor. She scored just six points after averaging 16 in the first two games.


2004 WNBA Finals, Game summaries, Game 3
Seattle coach Anne Donovan made history by becoming the first female coach to guide a team to the WNBA title.


2004 WNBA Playoffs
The 2004 WNBA Playoffs was the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2004 season which ended with the Western Conference champion Seattle Storm defeating the Eastern Conference champion Connecticut Sun, 2–1. Betty Lennox was named the MVP of the Finals.


2004 WNBA draft
The 2004 WNBA draft was the eighth draft in the WNBA's history. It took place on April 17, 2004 at the NBA Entertainment Studios in Secaucus, NJ.


2004 WNBA draft
On January 6, 2004 a dispersal draft took place. Players were drafted from the roster of the Cleveland Rockers, who folded after the 2003 season.


2004 WNBA season
The 2004 WNBA Season was the Women's National Basketball Association's eighth season. The league had one fewer team than in 2003 as the Cleveland Rockers folded after the 2003 season. The season ended with the Seattle Storm winning their first WNBA Championship, as their head coach Anne Donovan became the first female coach to win a WNBA championship.