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What is the most correct way to explain how a president gets elected?
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∙ 10y ago
He is nominated at a party convention and runs for the office. In the general election people vote, but a president is not elected by popular vote but by electors. These people are House members, senate members. It takes 270 electoral votes to win.
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∙ 6y ago
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoThere are many equally correct ways of describing how the President of the US is elected. One would be to say that the people in each state vote for Electors who in turn vote for the team of President and Vice President. This is an indirect election process.
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoThe winner of the popular vote in each state usually receives all the electoral votes from that state. The candidate with the majority of electoral votes is elected president.
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How does the president get elected of the US?
People vote for the president. If he/she (when there is a she) gets the most votes, they are elected president. Then they have to swore in and all that stuff.
What is the ignauguration?
When a president gets sworn in and is in office. Inauguration is where they get the elected president in office.
How does the vice president gets his job?
He/She is elected like the President of the United States
What does Obama plan to do after he gets elected?
Obama was elected President because he wanted to be the first African American to become president and he did it with honors!!!!
Who will be president of the US?
Whomever gets elected in November 2008.
What is it called when the president gets elected down?
It is called impeachment.
How long does a political term last?
A political term usually lasts for four years (if the president is not reelected). A political term is when a president is elected he/she gets to do his/her duty for four years, then after that a new president is elected, he/she gets to run for president one more time in his/her life.
How many years does a predent gets to be president?
He gets to be president for 4 years, but can run a second time for 4 more years. The longest you can be elected president is 8 years.
How do people get elected to the government?
The president gets elected by Electoral College. The Supreme Court justices get chosen by the president, and have to approved of by Congress. The House of Representative and Senate members are elected through direct elections.
Who is the president chose by?
The president is chosen by the United States. People vote. Whoever gets the most votes is elected.
What will Barack Obama do first if he gets elected as president?
he will move in to the white house, and hire pplz
How are people elected?
As for president, they elect until whenever they stop the two highest votes for both democrat and republican will be elected, whichever gets highest popularity and electorial will be our president. this is how it mostly works everywhere.
