Essay On Presidential Nominating Conventions

Chris Christie just endorsed the Donald. Even after Christie is on camera saying he doesn't want an entertainer as a president and also they evidently ran against each other. John Harwood which seems to be a Federalist said the reason for the recent endorsement is “The both really like the spotlight.” They say that they also have the same view on Hillary Clinton and Christie thinks Trump has the best plans to beat her. The next topic of discussion was Trump and the other two Candidates Rubio and Cruz. Rubio and Cruz during the last debate kept throwing punches at Trump. Susan Davis a Congressional Reporter for NPR which is leading to the left side of the room says “This needed to be happening five to six months ago.” The majority of the speakers

The Democratic convention for the Election of 1860 was held from April 23rd to May 3rd at Charleston, South Carolina. During this convention there was a disagreement over the slavery policy, so some of the Southern delegates withdrew from the ballot. The party wasn’t able to nominate a candidate at this convention, therefore they held a second convention from June 18th to June 23rd in Baltimore, Maryland. At this second convention, the party nominated Stephen Arnold Douglas as president with Herschel Johnson as his vice president after they defeated John Breckinridge. Soon after, conflict arose so a large number of mostly Southern Democrats nominated John Cabell Breckinridge as their presidential candidate with Joseph Lane as his vice president. Douglas and Breckinridge ended up becoming the candidates for the Democratic party during the election.

candidate receives the electoral votes in Florida seemed irrelevant to the people. However, there have been many presidents who have merely won the plurality vote, meaning they have not received a majority of the popular vote, but electoral votes, therefore becoming minority presidents. John Quincy Adams, with 30.92 percent of the popular vote defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824, which was decided by a contingency election in the House of Representatives. Even Abraham Lincoln became a minority president in the election of 1860. He polled the lowest popular vote percentage in the history of the presidency. In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was elected with 47.95 percent of the popular vote and 185 electoral votes, compared to Tilden who held 50.97 percent and 184. Minority presidents also include: Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon(1968), and Bill ClintonHowever, the election of 1888 is similar to our current situation. Benjamin Harrison won the election against Cleveland in which no candidate polled a majority, yet Cleveland beat him in the

in a state senatorial district. Nonetheless, two or more State Senatorial District Conventions will be held if a county is positioned in two or more state senatorial districts (“2016 Republican”). The County Convention chooses permanent officers, adopts Convention rules, permits and advances resolutions to the State Convention Level and selects delegates and alternates to the next level Convention (“POLITICAL PARTY”). The amount of delegates and alternates assigned to this convention is also depends on the number of votes found in the previous gubernatorial

National nominating conventions replaced the dying “King Caucus”. It started in 1831 by the Anti Masons. They met in a saloon in Baltimore Marylyn to choose a candidate and a platform in which they would run their campaign on. A year after that the Democrats met in the same place and did the same thing. After that it became a thing that the Major parties and even minor parties did to hold their national nominating conventions. During these conventions state delegates would attend to put in their own word and say who they wanted to win the election they were having at the time.

The Golden Age of nominating conventions were started as a mechanism to organize and unify the party. After the civil war, all the convention become deliberative convention. People get the nominations by cutting deals and bring the different factions and people into a collation.

Ever since the election season of 1972, presidential primaries have become “the dominant means of selecting the two major party candidates.”i[i] The primary system is one in which the eligible voters of each state do one of the following: 1) Vote for a presidential candidate to run for their party in the general election. 2) Vote for a delegate pledged to vote for a certain candidate at the party’s national convention. As intended, this process would bring the candidate selection processes out into the open and “let the people vote for the candidate of their choice.”ii[ii] On the surface, this may look very democratic (and admittedly, in some instances it was/is), but upon closer

political battle and revisits a time when a party was swallowed by it's leader's goals. These goals were

beginning of a new political era in which the dominance of the major parties is

The platforms on both sides were similar from the past with the issues and the campaign promises generally being dissected and presented in a format of what the party can and will attempt to give to the public. The party platform is not the highlight of the convention. Generally, the platform is thrown out the window even before the convention begins. In 2012, the platform hit one of the lowest points in convention history. According to Speaker Boehner, “Have you ever met anybody who has read the platform?” (Ceaser, 2016.) The platform is more of a tradition. Platforms will probably not change an election. Platforms are the medium utilized to inform with the goal to strengthen the base. Each issue addressed in a

Conventions and primaries conducted are temporary. Precinct conventions are open to members of the party who have voted earlier into the day at the first primary or in early voting. They occur only on even numbered years on the first Tuesday in March. At these conventions Delegates and alternates are selected to attend the next higher party convention with resolutions

The United States’ presidential election this year is nothing but a massive conflict between both the presidential nominees, and actual violent confrontations amongst the voters. There will be ramifications for many years to come regardless of who wins, and the world is paying attention. Both the presidential nominees are morally reprehensible people who are reviled greatly by significant portions of the U.S. population, yet they somehow managed to make it through the primaries to become our nominees. For those that care about decency, it is hard to imagine voting for either one, and I actually find myself longing for Ron Paul to throw his hat back into the ring. How did this come to pass, and how does it reflect upon us as a people?

The two parties have continued their 150 year long tug-of-war battle for dominance and over time have become symbols of American politics. It is nearly impossible to hold a political discussion without bringing up either or both of the parties or some prominent member thereof in reference to where they stand on the issue being discussed. A major

However, whilst the primaries are fundamentally democratic they do not detract the full power of party bosses, who still have control over who runs for president. It is very hard for an outsider to run for President let alone win. The only two exceptions to this rule are Jimmy Carter (Arguably the worst President in since Andrew Johnson and Barack Obama who may also become a one term

At the conclusion of President Barack Obama’s historical consecutive terms in office there is going to be a large number of candidates that are vying for the nominations of the respective parties. Due to the constitutional term limits imposed on the President, Obama is barred to seek re-election in 2016. While there are about 10 candidates running for the republicans, there are only two still in the running for the Democratic Party. The way candidates are recognized by their respective parties to become a candidate for the United States Presidency is first by receiving an invitation to compete in the primaries, then being included in the nationwide polls, as well as being on the ballot for at least 75% of all states. At the conclusion of the February 1st caucus there were 3 Democrats and 10 republicans who were still in the Presidential race, since then one Democratic candidate had dropped out.