How is president nominated?

Answer 1

For democrats, Republicans, and several others, a candidate needs to gain the vote of a majority of his party's convention delegates.

However, each party is free, within the election laws, to apply its own method for determining its nominee.

Answer 2

US presidents are nominated by a political party through primary elections and the party convention. In order to appear on the ballot petitions have to be filed . The parties take care of this task. The two major parties get their candidates on the ballots in all the states. Other parties get candidates on the ballot from time to time, sometimes only in a few states, sometimes nationally. Sometimes an individual forms his own party and gets on the ballot and may influence the election by "stealing" votes from one of the major candidates.

Answer 3

For high ranking cabinet positions : people with some real ability and whom he respects and trusts .

For lower ranking cabinet posts and ambassadors good Democratic party people who made substantial contributions to his election campaign and seem to have some qualifications for their particular appointment. He also strives for an ethnic balance and some female appointees. He may even nominate a few Republicans in order to claim he is bipartisan.

For supreme court justices and federal judges: judges who are have a liberal record on the bench but are not so radical that they can never be confirmed .

Answer 4

Presidents are not nominated, but presidential candidates are. Presidential candidates are nominated by their parties' conventions; this has been standard practice since 1832.