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Do the parents of a presidential candidate have to be citizens of US?
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From the U.S. Constitution: No person except a natural born Citizen [...] shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. In other words, the President has to have been born in the U.S., or born on foreign soil to one or more parents who are U.S. Citizens. In case you're wondering, that also means that President Obama is a U.S. Citizen, no matter where he was born, because his mother was a U.S. Citizen at the time of his birth. The debate about where he was born is just plain silly. It doesn't actually matter.
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Does a presidential candidate need to be born on American soil?
No. Although this has never happened, it is theoretically possible for a candidate for POTUS to be born outside the US because the Constitution states that a candidate must be a "natural-born" US citizen. "Natural-born" means either born on US soil or born to US citizens regardless of location.
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The US presidential election will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The main faceoff is between Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
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The Electoral college is the Presidential voting system. The electoral college gives each state a certain amount of electoral votes. If a presidential candidate wins the majority of the citizens votes, he will also get the electoral vote.
How could someone whose parents are both foreign citizens qualify to become the US president?
Where the parents of a presidential candidate were born is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is where the presidential candidate himself or herself was born. According Article II of the US Constitution: The President must be a natural born citizen of the United States or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, at least 35 years old and a resident of the United States for at least 14 years.
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The Republican presidential candidate did poorly in the 1856 US presidential elections. John Fremont, the candidate was too radical for most Americans. Also, the party was simply too new to have an impact.
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No. Richard Nixon was a Republican Presidential candidate in the election of 1960.
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John Kerry.
