The Presidential Elections.

They are held in lip-year. They consist of 2 separate campaigns: one is for the nomination of candidates at national party conventions, the other is to win the actual elections. The whole campaign & the election lasts a year: 1) winter - declaration of candidates; 2) spring – primary elections; 3) summer – nominating conventions; 4) November – general elections; 5) December – electorial college; 6) 20 January – the day of inauguration.

1).evrb who wants declares himself when he’s going to run the race. 2) candidates and campaign managers develop a strategy to win delegates from numerous primary caucuses. Candidates win their party nomination through successful showings in presidential primaries and state caucuses. A presidential primary is a state-wide election where voters from each party select the candidate they like to represent their party in the gen.elect. These candidates are awarded the status “delegates”. They vote then for the candidate at the party notion convention. The cand.with most delegates wins the nomination and the right to run in the nation pres.elect. 3). The nominating race is the competition btw the members of the same party. Nomination conventions r held by each party to nominate the presidential and vice-presidential candidates and write a platform. 4). The run btw the candidates from dif.parties. Big campaigns (TVads, TVdebates – opportunity for the public to determine each candidate’s qualifications) 5). The Elect.College is a method of indirect popular election of the pres. The EC is a group of people called electors, sometimes delegates, and each represents an electorial vote. They r elected by their states to officially elect the Pres.& Vice-Pr.The number of electorial votes is equal to the number of representatives in both Houses of Congress (more population->more power at the elect). 538 people. The EC is based on a “winner-take-all” system. The winner of the majority of votes in each state gets all of that state’s electorial votes. The system wasdesigned to prevent a cand. who’s very popular in a particular region from winning the el.based on the success only there. The electors arrive at their state capital on the 1^st Monday after the 2^nd Wednesday in December to cast their ballots. Then the ballots are sent to Congress, where they are counted in early January and the winner is declared. If nobody wins a majority the House chooses among the 3 top-candidates.

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