2008 Presidential Campaign

Some explanations include political efficacy, increase media coverage, election frequency.

In plain English - the presidential election is a higher profile election as the job is higher profile and it's a position people more often are exposed to. The president is the international representative of the American people. In addition, the media is hyped over presidential elections. More money is spent and there is more at stake. The executive branch of the government - essentially, the president - is perceived as being on an even level with the legislative branch (Congress) and judicial (Supreme Court). Also, one congressman is important for one state, essentially. There are 438 of them for the whole country. However there is one president who is chosen by all and serves all.

It depends on the state.

Since he gave a dynamic speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Barack Obama had been gaining a lot of fans in the Democratic Party. He was a US senator who was eloquent, an excellent politician, and capable of inspiring crowd of people. In 2007, he announced he wanted to run for president. But first, he had to defeat other Democratic candidates who wanted the nomination, including his chief rival Hillary Clinton. Once he defeated her during an intense and often contentious primary process, Mr. Obama earned the nomination of his party, and he became the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.

Virginia has 11 representatives in the US House and two Senators in the US Senate. The number of electoral votes a state has matches the number of its representatives and senators, so Virginia has 13 electoral votes.

There is always a congressional election held at the same time as the presidential election. However, since Congressmen serve for only a two-year term and the president serves for four years, there is a another Congressional election in the middle of the president's term. ( I am talking about the lower house of Congress. The senate elects one-third of its members every two years, so one-third of the senators are also elected at the same time as the President. )

True. He is an American citizen over 18.

"Take care that the laws be faithfully executed"

Nominate officials as provided for by Congress and with the agreement of a majority of the Senate

Request written opinions of administrative officials

Fill administrative vacancies during congressional recesses

James Garfield won the 1880 presidential election defeating Winfield Hancock.In the presidential election James Garfield received 214 electoral votes (58%) and Winfield Hancock received 155 electoral votes (42%). The popular vote totals were Garfield 4,446,158 (48.27%) and Hancock 4,444,260 (48.25%).

There is no minimum. I think I know what you want to know. But the number of people represented by one electoral vote varies from one state to the next. If you live in Wyoming 174,277 people make one electoral vote. In California it takes 664,604 to make one electoral vote. So if you live in Wyoming your vote is 3.8 times more powerful than it would be if you lived in California.

In the UK a party needs at least 326 seats to gain the majority. In 2010 general elections the Libdem only got 57 seats & conservatives 306 seats & 258 seats to Labour. Libdems & conservaties had to join together, this is called a "coalition government".

they cant make laws/they cant destroy laws/and they cant have more power. they cant make laws/they cant destroy laws/and they cant have more power.

The people who didn't vote for the final people in the race will then have a chance to become president.They are also called faithless voters.

It was, once upon a time. Unfortunately, with the locking of the House of Representatives at 435, that means the electoral college is also locked (at 538 electors) and smaller states are disproportionately favored. The system is no longer functioning as originally intended.

Yeah, so of the environmental issues just face Canada today. Facing Canada today's simply the way it is

The fundamental purpose of a voter-registration system is to restrict access to the voting booth--to ensure that only those people entitled to vote in a given jurisdiction can do so, and that they each vote only once.

What America is becoming!

June 3, 2008

Nothing as far as the government is concerned. It's up to the party to promote the v.p. nominee or find a new nominee. If the ballots are printed that's an issue governed by the laws of the individual states. If the states grant the power to the electoral college, then even if the guy AND the V.P. candidate were dead the E.C. would still get the votes and have the power to elect.

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The Vice President doesn't need to get any votes. They are chosen by the Presidential candidates, and if that Presidential candidate gets enough votes to win, their VP choice is elected with them.

Does it really matter McCain or Obama they are both going to keep the troops in Iraq the both voted for the bail out .... they both make promises that they have no intention of keeping. What happened to the Obama that was going to bring our troups home? I guess the lobbyists from the military industrial complexes around the world must have put some money in the pot now Obama sound more aggressive than McCain.

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