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Title: Selecting a President:


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Selecting a President
  • Nominating Conventions

2
Presidential Selection
  • Stage 1 Caucuses Primaries The Battle
    for the Party Faithful
  • Stage 2 Nominating Conventions
    Glorified Infomercials?
  • Stage 3 General Election
  • The Fight for the Center
  • Stage 4 Electoral College
  • Power to the People?

3
Presidential Nominating ConventionsThe Nuts
Bolts
4
Nominating Conventions
  • An assembly held by political parties every four
    years
  • Usually held in late summer before the general
    election in November
  • The Democratic and Republican parties hold
    nominating conventions as do third parties ex
    Green Party, Libertarian Party

5
Purposes of Nominating Conventions
1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit,
Michigan
  • Delegates at the convention adopt a party
    platform.
  • Delegates to the convention elect that partys
    nominees for President and Vice-president.

6
Whats a Party Platform?
  • Party Platform - a statement of principles and
    objectives a political party and a candidate
    supports in order to win the general election.
  • Plank - Individual topics in a partys platform
    (ex abortion, war in Iraq)

Cartoon satirizing the 1896 Democratic Party
Platform
7
2004 Platform Themes
  • Democratic Party
  • Strong at Home, Respected in the World
  • Republican Party
  • A Safer World and a More Hopeful America

How are these themes similar?
Different?
8
Who are Delegates?
  • Delegate - A voting representative to the party
    nominating convention

9
Delegate Selection
  • Proportional System
  • Primary system used by the Democratic Party
  • Candidates are allocated the same percentage of a
    states delegates as they received in popular
    votes
  • Pros cons of the proportional system?
  • Winner-take-all System
  • System used in most Republican primaries
  • The winner of the popular vote in that state
    receives all that states delegates
  • Pros cons of the winner-take-all system?

10
Democratic Party RulesTwo Types of Delegates
Pledged Delegates v. Superdelegates
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Pledged Delegates
  • Each state allotted
    certain number of

    delegates who vote at
    the partys
    convention
  • Pledged delegates are
    chosen at state

    local level
  • Pledged delegates are
    required to cast a vote

    at the convention
    based on
    the results
    of the primary or
    caucus in their state

Pledged delegates count during the 2008
Democratic primaries
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Superdelegates
  • Members of the Democratic Party
    establishment who serve as unpledged
    delegates at the party convention
  • Include members of Congress,
    governors, and members of the
    D.N.C.
  • They are free to vote for any candidate at the
    convention

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Brokered Convention
  • A situation in which no one candidate in a
    political party has received enough delegates in
    the primaries and caucuses to obtain a majority
  • After the first ballot at the partys
    convention, nominee decided through
    horse-trading and further ballots
  • Thomas Dewey (R) in 1948 and Adlai
    Stevenson (D) in 1952 last two
    candidates selected through brokered
    conventions neither won the general
    election

Democrats avoided a
brokered convention in 2008
Brainstorm potential positive and negative
consequences of a brokered convention.
14
Convention Speeches The Keynote
Address
Democrat Zell Miller delivers the 2004
RNC Keynote Address
Senator Barrack Obama gives the 2004 DNC
Keynote Address
  • The speech given at the convention that embodies
    that partys core message
  • Why do you think Democrats choose Barrack Obama
    and Republicans Zell Miller to deliver the 2004
    Keynote Addresses?

15
Convention Speeches The Acceptance
Address
1960 presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and
Richard M. Nixon deliver their Acceptance
Addresses at their partys national convention
  • The speech given at the final day of the
    convention in which the winning candidate
    formally accepts the partys nomination for
    president
  • The Acceptance Address is always televised by the
    major networks

16
Critics say that party nominating conventions
have become no more than infomercials.
1992 Democratic National Convention in New York
City
What do you think?
17
1920 Republican Convention
  • Today candidates secure their partys nomination
    during the primaries
  • But in 1920 there was no clear nominee going into
    the Republican Convention

http//www.rightyblogs.com
18
Schwarzenegger Rocks Republican Convention
By Patrick Chappatte, The International Herald
Tribune  09/21/2004
http//www.politicalcartoons.com/
19
2008 -- The Final Three
By Paresh Nath, National Herald, New Delhi, India
3/17/08 http//cagle.msnbc.com
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Superdelegates
By John Trever, The Albuquerque Journal
03/30/2008 http//www.politicalcartoons.com/
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