How are candidates chosen to run for office?

Answer 1

If you are talking about candidates for office, political parties do not choose their leaders. The leaders are chosen in Primary elections. If you are talking about positions in the U.S. congress, each party has a meeting, called a caucus, and they determine who recives the most prominant positions available. "But the real decisions are made by rich old white men in smoke filled rooms. All the rest of the show, the primaries, the conventions, the endless campaigning is all smoke and mirrors; a sop to the sensibilities of the great unwashed masses." This last part may have been true in the earlier history of U.S. politics but is not true today. The political parties have lost significant power in the poltical system as it stands today. A prime example is Sen. McCai, the Republican nominee for President. The base of the Republican party did not want him to be the nominee, several influencial members of the party threatened to boycott the 2008 election if he was chosen as the nominee. The smoke filled rooms are a thing of the past when it comes to important U.S. offices.

Answer 2

Most of them start at the lowest state level or as a larger city official, become active in their local party and make it clear that they would like to run for office. Often, they join the party that is out of power and so have less competition. When there are primary elections, new candidates can run their own campaigns with the help of family and friends and sometimes succeed. People who are successful in lower offices can often move up to higher offices.

Sometimes, especially ,at the level of governor or US Senate, people who are leaders in business or are prominent in high profile professional positions or have high military rank, attract the attention of party "king-makers" and are solicited to run for office. People with famous names are often given special consideration.

Answer 3

In the modern era, U.S. political parties choose their presidential candidates by primaries and caucuses. A primary is an election in which voters choose from a list of candidates for that party only; a caucus is a process by which people gather in meeting places and group themselves according to which of that party's candidates they support. Each of those processes results in assigning some of that state's delegates to particular candidates. In many states, people of that party who currently hold elected office also serve as delegates, and can support whichever candidate they prefer.

Each party then meets in a national convention, and the candidate with the most delegates is chosen as the nominee.

Answer 4

Presidenti are chosen at their party's convention an the end of the Primary Election proceally

Answer 5

Caucus Caucus