Presidential elections

Question 1

Stage One: Party Nominations

Answer 1

Candidates declare their intent to seek the nominations
Each state holds a partisan election
Candidates are awarded delegates based on their percent of the vote

Question 2

Republican Convention is held where?

Answer 2

Milwaukee

Question 3

Democratic Convention is held where?

Answer 3

Chicago

Question 4

Stage Two: General Election

Answer 4

Election day is always the Tuesday after the first Monday in November
The candidate that wins a majority of the votes in the Electoral College becomes president

Question 5

what is Electoral college?

Answer 5

Required by the Constitution
Consists of Electors who cast a direct vote for president

Question 6

how many electors are there and what is it?

Answer 6

538 total Electors
Number of Electoral for each state is determined by House of Representatives + Senate

Question 7

Electors are chosen by the citizens through their votes and what else?

Answer 7

Since Electors pledge themselves to one of the candidates before the election, citizens are essentially casting an indirect vote for president

Question 8

The candidate that wins the popular vote in a state receives all of that state’s electoral votes

Answer 8

Except Maine and Nebraska
The goal of each candidate is to win enough states to compile a majority in the Electoral College (270 votes)

Question 9

what happens when no candidate compiles a majority?

Answer 9

If no candidate compiles a majority, then the top three vote-getters stand for election in the House of Representatives
1800 (thomas jefferson and 1824 john q. Adams

Question 10

what is stage one like?

Answer 10

voters are most liberal/conservative

Question 11

what is stage two like?

Answer 11

voters are more moderate