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The President (and Vice President, who shares a "ticket") is not directly elected. People vote for the "electors" of their State, who together form the "electoral college". The Electoral College does not meet in one place, but electors meet at their State Capitol. Each State has a number of electors equal to the number of congressmen it has (at least 3, the maximum is California, which has 55). The District of Columbia, which is not a State, also has 3 electors. The Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates with the most votes win.
Electors are usually members of a political party who do not hold political office. In theory, they should vote as they please, but in practice, the electors are effectively a point-scoring system.
This technically means that a candidate can win without getting the most votes, so the system has been an ongoing controversy. This happened in 2000, when George Bush won the election despite the fact that Al Gore got 0.5 million more votes. Actually, Al Gore would have won the election they'd bothered to recount the votes in Florida properly. In 2004, Bush won 3 million more votes than John Kerry and a narrow majority of electoral votes. But if 60,000 people in Ohio had voted for Kerry, Kerry would have won Ohio and with it the election.
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What basis are vice presidential candidates are usually chosen by the major parties?
Vice presidential candidates are generally chosen in order to garner extra votes in the general election. The votes will usually come from a specific area of the nation like the South or the West.
How did the increasing power of political parties affect the candidates in the presidential election of 180?
each party nominated presidential and vice-presidential candidates
Which amendment changed the system where Vice-presidents were originally the presidential candidates receiving the second largest number of electoral votes?
12th
In accordance with the constitution each elector cast how many votes for any two candidates during presidential and vice presidential election in 1796?
two would be my guess
How are unsuccessful vice presidential elections resolved?
If nobody receives a majority of the electoral votes, the US Senate elects a vice-president from among the three highest candidates.
Who elects the Vice-President if there is no majority in the Electoral College?
The Congress would decide who the Vice-president would be.
When is the vice presidential candidates officially chosen?
During the national convention
1984 presidential election?
The presidential candidates were president Ronald Reagan and former vice president Walter Mondale.The vice presidential candidates were vice president George H.W.Bush and representative Geraldline Ferraro
Who selects the vice president if two candidates tie?
Whenever none of the Vice Presidential candidates receives more than half of the electoral votes, the Senate elects a Vice President from between the two with the most electoral votes. That has happened only once so far, in 1836. Martin Van Buren had enough votes to win the presidential election, but his running mate, Richard Johnson, fell one vote short of the required absolute majority. The Senate voted in his favor.
How many electoral votes did joe biden win in the 2012 vice presidential election?
Joe Biden won 332 electoral votes in the 2012 vice presidential election.
Who were the presidential candidates and vice presidential candidates in the presidential election of 1972?
Richard M.Nixon/Spiro Agnew George McGovern/R.Sargent Shriver
Meetings to select the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates are called?
In the US, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates for a party are announced at the party's respective convention. Both the Democratic and the Republican ones occured in fall of 2008.
