GROUP BY day (with a date stamp column)

I have a table as follows

id date_time
-- -------
1 2003-10-04 12:09:00
2 2003-10-04 13:09:00
3 2003-10-05 12:09:00
4 2003-10-05 14:09:00
5 2003-10-06 14:09:00

I want to have a count of each record in the same day. So my results should be

total date
-------
2 2003-10-04
2 2003-10-05
1 2003-10-06

Any help?try using this query:

select CONVERT(varchar(10),date_time,120) as date, count(CONVERT(varchar(10),date_time,120)) as total
from table_name
group by CONVERT(varchar(10),date_time,120)