What are delegates?

Answer 1

Delegates are the people who actually nominate a candidate--in this case, the candidate for president. When you vote in a primary or participate in a caucus, you're committing delegates. Say you live in a state with 25 "committed" delegates. You're a Democrat (whether you are or not in real life, because the Republicans have already chosen their candidate) and you voted for Barack Obama. They count all the votes and break it down by percentages. In this case, 100 percent of the vote divided by 25 delegates means a candidate gets one committed delegate per each four percent of the vote earned. So your one vote became a piece of Obama's total votes. Now, once all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton won your state big--she got 60 percent to Obama's 40 percent. 60 percent divided by four is 15 delegates; 40 percent divided by four is 10 delegates. When the convention comes, Hillary's 15 delegates are obligated by party rules to vote for Hillary on the first ballot cast at the convention; likewise with Obama and his 10. The other kind of delegates are "superdelegates." Every Democratic congressman is one, as are a lot of high-ranking Party apparatchiks. They exist for one reason, which you're seeing in this election: a candidate must earn over 2000 delegates to win the primaries. Neither Obama nor Clinton have anywhere close to 2000 delegates if all you're counting are committed delegates. Superdelegates, while they've all been committing themselves to one candidate or the other, are allowed to vote for anyone they want. If a superdelegate went to the convention and thought, "Coach K from Duke University would make a GREAT president," he is perfectly free to vote for Coach K. And he could get Coach K onto the ballot by convincing a lot of superdelegates to cast votes so that neither candidate got the number needed. If they go to a second ballot, all delegates become free to vote for whoever they want, so if he could convince the necessary number of people to vote for Coach K, and he could convince the very Republican Coach K to run for president as a Democrat, we'd run Coach K against John McCain. That's how Democrats work. Republicans do things differently: they pick out the person they really want to be president, then put three or four people you wouldn't want to be president of the garbage company on the ballot with him. It's a choice like "which would you rather have for dessert, a bowl of strawberries, a bowl of boiled broccoli, a bowl of liver or a bowl of raw onions" is a choice. By the time the convention hits, the bowls of raw onions, broccoli and liver have pulled out of the race because no one voted for them.

Answer 2

a delegate is ususally a form of govnerment that is suggested to write or propose something of great ideas.For example Thomas Jefferson was a delagate chosen to write the declaration of independence

Answer 3

They represent their states and discus issues their states are having

Answer 4

They are important because they nominate the president which makes it all up to them.

Answer 5

They dont