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Primaries are a way that political parties can win delegates at the National Nominating Convention in some states. However, in Caucus states the delegates are chosen by the party.
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elect delegates to state nominating convention
elect delegates to state nominating convention
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According to an article in USA Today California has 440 delegates of the total number of the Democratic party's nominating convention's 4,361 delegates.
Delegates from all the states meet and elect a candidate for president and then for vice president, Nowadays so many of the delegates are committed to a particular candidate by primary elections that one candidate can have the nomination "sewed up" before the convention occurs and lately it has been the custom to let the presidential nominee pick his running mate. This did not used to be the case.
The Democratic Party by way of their Super Delegates.
Caucus and Primary Election
The territories have no vote in Presidential elections. They do send voting delegates to the national nominating conventions.
The nominating conventions used to be the place where the candidates were chosen. Nowadays primary elections often have the candidate chosen before the convention is held. However, if the primaries ended without any one candidates having a majority of the delegates in his camp, the convention would make the choice.
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