Candidates focus their resources on those states where polls show the race will be close - the so-called toss-up or swing states. Among those, they put the most effort on the ones with the larger populations and accordingly have more electoral votes. If there are too many swing states, they may map out a list of those that they have to have for a victory and throw everything they have at them. They tend to slight those states where they are way ahead or which their opponent seems to have won.
A primary, or primary election, is the election in which voters decide which of the candidates within a party will represent the party in the general election. So basically, when people vote on who will run for the democrats during the presidential election, it's a primary election. Voting on the actual president would be the general election.
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In the US, a Presidential election occurs during a general election on the second Tuesday in November.
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John Bell condemned sectional political parties.
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No, he was one of the candidates for the presidency during the 2012 election, and he won. There is no election in 2013.
During the national convention
1844 Presidential ElectionThe candidates for the Presidential election of 1844 were; James K. Polk (Democratic) Henry Clay (Whig) and James G. Birney (Liberty). James K. Polk won the election to become the 11th President of the United States. President Polk was in office from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849. His Vice President was George M. Dallas.
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He is affiliated typically with Democratic candidates. He is friends with Senator John Kerry of Massachusettes. He even commented in 2004 during the presidential election that if John Kerry won the election for President, Aerosmith would perform at his inaugural. This is in contrast to Joe Perry, who is a "life-long Republican", and endorsed John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election.
Major and minor political parties nominate candidates for president and vice president every four years during the presidential election cycle.