Presidential Election Process
There are many steps in running for president. Running for president is said to be one of the longest campaigns. Running for President consists of mainly two different parties and which consist of: the presidential primary campaign and the general electoral campaign that follow the party’s national convention. Generally both campaigns take place within the first 10 months of the election year. The primary campaign was mainly used for opening the nomination process to ordinary party members and to delay and postpone the influence of party bosses. During this time there is a process where the candidates go through a “beauty contest” where they are competing for popular votes; however the “popular” votes do not have
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any effect over the national convention. In the beginning of the process each candidate is entitled to giving a speech to the people he or she is trying to get to vote for them. The speech will not be the only speech given in the process of convincing the voters to vote for any one of the candidates, but is the one of the first impressions the voters will be getting of each candidate. Generally, there are standards set by not only the people but by the Government as well when it comes to the speeches and advertisements. William F. Christensen explains, “Although national popular opinion during the US presidential races is most commonly measured and discussed in the media, the US presidential election is based on the electoral college, in which each state has a number of electors equal to the number of its US representatives”. This is the beginning step for the candidate to begin persuading and informing the voters on what makes each one of them different and why he or she deserves the vote over the other contesters. The second step would be where the candidate is campaigning to win the delegate support. During this process the candidate is competing with other people with the same political overview and trying to make it to the next level of nomination. Once the candidates start receiving votes and feedback following first speech given, this is a step forward in working towards earning the votes of the electoral colleges. After the first speech the candidate will be receiving feedback and know what the people(s) first impression is of them and can make changes not to only their selves, but to their speeches and points. The candidate has to work to prove their point and stand behind their points in order to convince the people to vote for them to help win over the delegates to help support them in their running for the actual election. This is the process where they are trying to get the people with the same view point to vote for them and support their vote rather than the other candidates running in the campaign. This is possibly the hardest step in the election mainly because trying to convince millions of people why each of them deserves a vote over the others and having to talk in front of millions of people isn’t easy. The third step would be the caucuses and primaries.
This takes place throughout the states. A major consideration is whether independent voters can take part in a primary or not. Another step would be when the nominee for the presidential election is announced. They have now got the votes from their state to see who would go on to the real nomination where they face the other parties from different presidential campaigns. This takes place after the national convention. This is the first time the candidate will face the different parties that they will be running against. The next step is where the citizens cast their votes for the party they believe will be the best to serve for the United States. This presidential election is only held once every four years. After this step the Electoral College comes into place. The Electoral College is a group of people elected by each state that will determine the president and the vice president of the United States. Although people think they are voting directly for a candidate, but actually they are voting for an elector who will cast their ballots in the Electoral College. Electors are generally chosen by a popular vote. “The individual 50 states (plus the district of Columbia) are accoreded a number of votes in the (so-called) electoral college; each states electoral college vote is the attributed to the candidate gaining a plurality (most) of the popular vote in that state; and the canidated with a majority (50% +1) of these aggregated electoral college votes are declared the incoming president,” explains Michael Dunne in his article “US Presidential Elections: Two Centuries of Constitutional Continuity and Political
Change.” The last step to this process is Election Day. On Election Day the president is determined by the Electoral College and the citizens of the United States. The vote will then be concluded and the president will be reviled to the public and the new president will be notified. When he or she is informed after the voting has been completed and the position has been filled White House will become the new home to them and their family. This is one of the main processes that will take place as a new president enters the office, because of the presidential oath and all the other paperwork that he or she is to agree to. He or she is now responsible for making decisions and taking responsibility for our country as a whole as well as each state individually. The president will then be inaugurated into the white house under the presidential oath. The last and final step in the presidential election takes place in November when everything is finalized and the new president is admitted into the system and begins to take over and work towards his commitment in being in office. This concludes the inauguration day and the being admitted into office. The presidential election is said to be the longest known campaigns in the United States. There are many steps in being admitted into the White House as well as in to the government. The two main components will battle until the final decision is made on Election Day which takes place in November when the Electoral College and national constitution have come together, reviewed votes, and decided on the new president. After ten months of campaigning against each other a decision will be made and one of the two will be elected to serve the United States as president. This is the final and concluding step in the inauguration of the presidential election. There have been several changes made to the election process over the past several years. “The 2008 presidential election presents a unique opportunity to analyze the insertion of race, gender, and class because of the prominent role of Barack Obama, an African American male; Hillary Clinton, a white female candidate; and John McCain, a white male candidate,” Elaborates George Amedee on page 1 in “Processes and Politics in the United States”. I really enjoyed writing about the process of presidential election. I mainly enjoyed it because I actually learned so much from writing this journal article. Each article gave me new information of some sort that was all new to me. I hope you enjoyed this journal article as much as I did.
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