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Each party convention nominates one candidate for president and one candidate for vice-president and the two candidates run as a team. The popular vote can not be split since the voters are really electing electors and the same electors vote for both president and vice-president.
Although there are separate electoral votes for president and vice-president, the electors vote for their party's nominee in each.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoThey run as a team and are both elected by the same electors who have pledged to support their candidacy. The only way they could not be from the same party would be if no candidate received a majority of the electoral vote so the House of Representatives chose the President and the Senate chose the Vice-President.
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∙ 12y agoIt doesn't have to be that way, but each presidential candidate and his running mate run as a team, so they almost always get the same number of votes.
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Who is vice presindent?
Joe Biden is the Vice President of the United States.
Could a presindent after 8 year be a vice-presindent?
Yes, he can be in any office except president again
The twelfth amendment guarantees that the president and vice president will be from the same?
The Twelfth Amendment under the current party system guarantees that the president and vice president will be from the same party.
Do the president and vice president of the US of different political party can serve at the same time?
No, they have to be of the same political party.
Are the president and vice president in different political parties?
No, when the president is running for office. They have the opportunity then to pick who they want as their running mate and eventual vice president. Much like right now with Obama and Biden, they stay within the same political party.
What section of the Constitution says the president and vice president must be of the same political party?
It doesn't because vice president Hendricks was in a different political party than the president at thay time.
What Vice President was not of the same party as the President?
Andrew Johnson was a Democrat before and after he was elected vice-president as a Republican. When parties were just starting to form. John C. Calhoun who was the vice-president under John Quincy Adams was elected again to serve under Andrew Jackson. Calhoun and Jackson never joined the same party. Similarly John Adams and his vice president Thomas Jefferson were not about to join same the party.
Who was the only vice president who was not of the same party as the president except at the time of civil war.?
Hendricks
Why is the president and vice president from the same party?
The two run as a team, with the same party affiliiation. The same electors choose both and the electors are chosen as representatives of the winning party are the state level.
Does The electoral college selects the vice president?
No, the president selects the vice president. The vice president has to be on the same party as the president natural born citizen, resident of the U.S. for 14 years and 35 years old.
Why are the president and vice president are from the same party today?
becuse adams and jefferson where against each other
Vice presindent in 1992?
Dan Quale
