citizens vote for delegates in primaries and caucuses and delegates then select the candidate at a national nominating convention
No, the official qualifications are the same, since the Vice President may become President. However, parties may not demand so much from their vice-presidential nominees as they do from their presidential candidate and voters might expect less.
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general election (novanet)
Apparently the change was in 1956. 1952 was the last time that the conventions of both of the major political parties selected the vice-presidential nominees, and 1960 was the first time that both major-party presidential nominees selected their own running mates. In 1956, Pres. Eisenhower announced that he would again run with his Vice President, Richard Nixon, while Gov. Stevenson left it up to the convention delegates to choose his running mate.
What is it called when voters choose the parties nominees
No.
Andrew Johnson was the Republican nominees for vice president in 1864, but had always been a Democrat and returned to the Democrats in 1868. RonaldReagan was a Democrat as a young man. He became a Republican by the time he actually ran for office. He said he did not leave the Democrats, but rather they left him.
National convention (A+)
Biden and Palin were selected by the presidential nominees of their respective parties, the Democratic party and the Republican party. Biden was chosen by Barack Obama and Palin was chosen by John McCain. Both accepted the vice presidential nomination. In the general election in November, the president and vice president are elected together on a single ballot.
After the establishment of political parties in America, neither party wanted to share the executive office with the opposing party. They would run a presidential and vice presidential candidate (as they do now). As a result, when the electoral college voted, they cast their two votes for the two people. According to the original rules, this meant that both the intended President and the intended Vice President had the same number of votes for being president. If this had been continued, every Presidential election would have had to be resolved by Congress. To prevent this, the 12th Amendment was passed which changed the rules such that the electoral college votes separately for President and Vice President. A side issue of the original rules is that the executive office would not have worked well with opposing parties sharing the duties. With the vice president succeeding the President in death, it raised the possibility that the elected government could be effectively overthrown and handed over to the Vice President's (of the vice president) simply by someone assassinating the President. http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Electoral_College_before_the_Twelfth_Amendment