Running for POTUS

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Running for POTUS

• Caucus
• Document drafted every four years by each party
  stating the policy positions of the party
• General party-wide issue stances
• Primary
• Started after 1900
• 2012 delegates chosen in primaries
• Dem ? 81
• Rep ? 74

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practice of moving
primary elections to the early part of the
campaign to maximize the impact of these
primaries on the nomination
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2016 so far
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Allocating Delegates

• Proportional
• Most commonly used
• All Dem state delegates
• Winner Take All
• Used in less than 10 states
• Superdelegates
• Only by Dems
• Delegate selection and Presidential Poll
• Two separate elections

http//www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/pres
idential-elections/2012-presidential-primary-resou
rces/delegate-allocation-rules-in-2012-gop/
2012 GOP Rules
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National Convention

• Used since 1832 to nominate candidates
• Delegations are proportionate to population
• States, DC, territories, etc.
• Lasts a few days
• 1st day
• 2nd day
• 3rd day
• No convention since 1952 has needed more than one
  ballot
• 4th day

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General Election

• Following convention candidates will focus on
• a state in which no single candidate or party has
  overwhelming support in securing that
  state's electoral college votes
• campaigns devote exceptional effort to winning
  the popular and electoral vote there

                                                
                                               Swi
ng states in the 2012 presidential election.
President Barack Obama won the nationwide popular
vote by 4 percentage points this won him the
bulk of the closely contested states, losing only
North Carolina.   States won by Republican Mitt
Romney by 04 percentage points   States won by
Democrat Barack Obama by 04 percentage
points   States won by Democrat Barack Obama by
48 percentage points