They award delegates in proportion to the primary vote for a candidate in a state.
Because they have established different rules within their party. Democrats need 2382 delegates while Republicans need 1236 delegates.
No, the Republican Party's does not give elected officials and party leaders an automatic vote in the presidential primary process; however, politicians and party leaders can be elected to be delegates(pledged or otherwise).
It has a Democratic Governor and a Republican Lieutenant Governor and at the state level a Democratic Senate and a Republican House. Both US Senators are democrats and the US House delegates are divided six to five in favor of the democrats. Call it a swing state but it is still a conservative southern state.
Delegates are the ones that vote for the president.
Democrats believe in the state bank.
Because they have established different rules within their party. Democrats need 2382 delegates while Republicans need 1236 delegates.
The number of delegates needed to nominate by the democrats is 2,025 .
I believe around 2,105 delegates are at stake in total.
The Republican Party assigns delegates proportionally during the Iowa Caucus.
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It lets states give up the popular selection of delegates.
Because the rich talk the poor into voting for republicans, when really there just fraud's, making the democrats scapegoats, and they are actually very convincing.
It is divided with the democrats holding a majority in the Senate and the republicans in charge of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Clinton dropped out of the race so, Obama has the most delegates since he is the only runner for the Democrats.
Texas has a total of 228 democratic delegates, 126 delegates will be chosen proportionately according to the primary vote, 67 delegates will be chosen by the caucus process, and 35 delegates will be "Super Delegates". The caucus process begins at the precinct conventions and is completed at the Texas Democratic State Convention. So if you live in Texas you must go to the primary and caucus.
The Democrats use primaries to choose their presidential candidate. They pick the candidate who has the best chance to win. The popular vote in Democratic primaries is altered by the appointment of "Super-Delegates". This has been a controversial part of their primary process.
From Wikipedia: Delegates are the people who will decide the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Delegates from the fifty US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have a single vote each, while some delegates from American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Democrats Abroad have half a vote each. Thus, the total number of delegates is slightly higher than the total number of available delegate votes (4,048).