campaigning
People vote for a candidate. Each state has a given number of electoral votes. Win the state, get the votes from that state. Get more votes than your opponent, and you have been elected.
The president is directly elected by the people. If a majority of votes are not given to a candidate in the first round, a run-off is held between the 2 leading candidates.
One cannot get clothing from the bank, rather they can get clothing from a clothing bank. This is an organized effort of charity which allows for collection of clothes to be given away at a particular site for those in need of clothes.
Patronage, the giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected, was a problem because the employees given these jobs were many times not qualified for the political position. They many times used their new position for personal gain.
by the people of a given state
The above given sentence is not grammatically correct. It could be the public wanted more information about the candidate.
Voters elected the legislature, and i am not sure how much authority he was given.
MEd candidate means a person is in the process of obtaining their Masters of Education degree.
The reason Richard M. Johnson was given the Vice Presidency was because he was elected by the United States Senate. He was the only Vice President to be elected using a separate Electoral vote than that of the Presidential candidate according to the provisions of the 12th Amendment.
Orderly may be given the prefix dis-, giving disorderly.
An induction process.
A State of the Union address is given.