The 2004 Missouri Democratic Presidential Primary on February 3, 2004 determined the recipient of the state

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

's 88 delegates to the Democratic National Convention

Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party. They have been administered by the Democratic National Committee since the 1852 national convention...

 in the process to elect the 44th President of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

. It was an open primary

Open primary

An open primary is a primary election that does not require voters to be affiliated with a political party in order to vote for partisan candidates. In a traditional open primary, voters may select one party's ballot and vote for that party's nomination. As in a closed primary, the highest voted...

.

Endorsements

Several major endorsements

Political endorsement

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, such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

, helped John Kerry to clinch the primary. John Edwards got former speaker of the house Jim Kreider

Jim Kreider

Jim Krieder is an American Democratic Party politician who served as Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.Krieder was born in Nuremberg, Germany...

 and Buchanan County

Buchanan County, Missouri

Buchanan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2010, the population was 89,201. Its county seat is Saint Joseph. When originally formed in 1838, the county was named Roberts County, after settler Hiram Roberts; it was renamed in 1839 for James Buchanan, then a U.S....

 Auditor Susan Montee

Susan Montee

Susan Montee is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri who served as the State Auditor of Missouri. She won the election in November 2006 and was sworn into her position on January 4, 2007. She is the third woman in succession to serve as State Auditor of Missouri. She succeeded...

 as endorsements. Governor Howard Dean

Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...

 got the endorsement of Chairman and CEO of King Hershey Richard A. King.

Polling

Candidate	22 January 2004	29 January 2004	29 January 2004	1 February 2004
John Kerry	25%	37%	44%	56%
John Edwards	9%	11%	14%	17%
Howard Dean	6%	7%	9%	9%
Wesley Clark	3%	6%	5%	6%
Al Sharpton	1%	2%	2%	4%
Joe Lieberman	2%	6%	5%	3%
Dennis Kucinich	1%	-	1%	-
Dick Gephardt	3%	-	1%	-

Source: Missouri - 2004 Presidential Polls

Results

On Mini Tuesday, John Kerry

John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

 won once again, winning with a majority of over 50%. He won every congressional district and county except Knox County

Knox County, Missouri

As of the census of 2010, there are 4,131 people in the county, organized into 1,791 households and 1,217 families. The population density is 9 people per square mile . There are 2,317 housing units at an average density of 5 per square mile...

 and Lawrence County which Edwards won. Howard Dean

Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...

 received 9%, Clark gets 4%, and several other candidates.

Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Kerry, John F. John Kerry John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...	211,745	50.6%	51
Edwards, John John Edwards Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician, who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in...	103,088	24.6%	23
Dean, Howard Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...	36,288	8.7%
Clark, Wesley K. Wesley Clark Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr., is a retired general of the United States Army. Graduating as valedictorian of the class of 1966 at West Point, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later graduated from the...	18,340	4.4%
Lieberman, Joe Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely affiliated with the party.Born in Stamford, Connecticut,...	14,727	3.5%
Sharpton, Alfred C. "Al" Al Sharpton Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton, Jr. is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election...	14,308	3.4%
Gephardt, Richard "Dick" Dick Gephardt Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt is a lobbyist and former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, serving as House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995, and as Minority Leader from 1995 to...	8,281	2.0%
Kucinich, Dennis J. Dennis Kucinich Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....	4,875	1.2%
Uncommitted	4,311	1.0%	14
Moseley Braun, Carol Carol Moseley Braun Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun is an American feminist politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first and to date only African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator in an...	1,088	0.3%
LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr. Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...	953	0.2%
Penna, Fern	335	0.1%
Total	418,339	100.0%	88