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In the 2016 US Presidential election process, no candidates are related to royalty. It would be a rather unlikely situation for that to exist.
Given the results of the 2008 election, in which the more aggressively religious candidates of the right were defeated by the less aggressively religious candidates of the left, religion at the present moment does not appear to be a rising force in the US, although that could still change.
One was Henry Ford.
Do the voters elect electors not the presidential candidates
Yes it does in that the college determines who the final candidates for the popular vote for the US president will be.
Yes, there is no legal requirement to vote.
When the only candidates who have a reasonable chance of winning an election are one of two parties, this is generally referred to as a two party system. The US is an example of a two party system in which the only candidates who stand a reasonable chance of winning are Republican or Democratic.
This varies based on the constitution of the country. Most Republics have a direct election system, sometimes with a run-off with the top 2 candidates. The US does not have a direct election system.
The major-party candidates in the US presidential election of 1980 were incumbent President Jimmy Carter (D-GA) and former California Governor Ronald Reagan (R). And although he received no electoral votes, Independent John B. Anderson was also significant in the election.
In the US the elections are called primaries as they are the first step to the election of the final candidate. In the presidential elections Barack Obama first had to beat Hillary Clinton among others before facing John McCain who had beaten other candidates from the Republican party.
The General Election in the 2016 presidential election included 2 candidates - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Many candidates files with the Federal Election Commission. Democratic candidates filing with the Federal Election Commission included Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Lawrence Lessig, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee. Republican candidates filing with the Federal Election Commission included Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Mark Everson, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, George Pataki, Ron Santorum, Scott Walker, and Lindsey Graham.
Candidates on the ballots from the two major political parties were George Bush, Jr. and John Kerry. before it got down to just the two partys