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Probably to mirror the electoral college in the general election, so that a candidate can sort of get a feel for the general election process.
So why use the electoral college? Why can't the people decide by majority rule? Originally people didn't have cable news so the founders thought as a failsafe (they thought the people might elect someone unqualified) they'd create the electoral college, which doesn't work anyway because the winning candidate gets to choose whose in it.
Finally to answer your original question, tradition, and the fact that not enough people have spoken up for an amendment to change it.
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What two mechanisms are used by parties to select delegates to the national convention?
presidential primary elections and caucuses
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The territories have no vote in Presidential elections. They do send voting delegates to the national nominating conventions.
What happened at the national conventions which are held in presidential elections years?
delegates from each state select political parties'nominees for president
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This refers to the system where the results of primary elections direct delegates to vote at the national convention to select the candidate for the presidential election.
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National convention (A+)
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The presidential elections are held every four years.
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Delegates from all the states meet and elect a candidate for president and then for vice president, Nowadays so many of the delegates are committed to a particular candidate by primary elections that one candidate can have the nomination "sewed up" before the convention occurs and lately it has been the custom to let the presidential nominee pick his running mate. This did not used to be the case.
The elections that produce the largest voter turnout are the?
Presidential Elections
Who was the presidential candidate in 1994?
Elections in the USA occur every four years. There where presidential elections in 1992 and then in 1996.
The Presidential elections elections' election's of the 80s '80s 80s were exciting?
elections, '80s
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The presidential suite was a big big.These presidential elections are so boring.
What are to two major processes use to select delegates to national conventions?
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