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As different problems have come up and been resolved in the presidential election process, it has, over time, become more democratic. The Electoral College is voted for by the people, primaries/caucuses allow citizens to nominate delegates to vote for their nominee, and the two-party system is broad enough to allow many people to participate in the election process. All in all, even though we don’t directly elect our president, we still play a huge part in electing the people who do vote and because of this, I think the system is very

Although voters do not have an obligation publicly state which party they align with, they still must only align with one party during the primary. Therefore, their ballots do not present every possible candidate, and thus, their scope of presidential candidates is limited. The goal of a primary should be to reflect how the state will likely vote during the general election. Blanket primaries accomplish this by allowing voters to select the best candidate from every choice available. This also shows how certain candidates fair in comparison with other parties’ candidates. Parties still have the ability to nominate their candidate with the highest number of votes, but the blanket primary gives more power to the voters than to political parties. Political candidates must market themselves to voters as an aggregate in the state, and cannot rely on party affiliation to be a driving force come primary season. Therefore, while open and blanket primaries are extremely similar, it is the fact that blanket primaries allow more freedom for voters that makes them the favorable

the reasons for the staggered elections exist so that the congress is always moving forward, bringing in new ideas each elections, preventing a tyranny of republicans and democrats with ever changing seats. The Primaries exist to propel the right candidate forward. 2008 for example, with Hillary Clinton and Barack obama both running for the democratic slot for president. The primaries exist to allow the people and the party to vote on who they want to run for president, so they are positive that they are getting the right candidate for the party, and that the people are getting the right candidate to represent their vote, their city, their state and their country for the

This could also be seen as a disadvantage to the primary election, as it prevents the parties from expressing their wishes towards who the candidate should be, and thus an unworthy candidate may be chosen. Primaries could lead to someone with little experience of governance, or someone who is not representing the party ideal being put forward as candidate and the state parties could have no influence over this.

The McGovern-Fraser Commission changed the presidential primary system by writing new rules to make the Democratic Party conventions more open to input from the public as well as representative. By doing so, the public and party leaders could no longer “handpick” the convention delegates virtually in secret and the delegate selection process was required to be open for anyone to participate.

Partisan primaries result in judicial candidates who are dependent on special interests for their election and also tend to force candidates to affiliate with a political party.

Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all, many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one, technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television, we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general.

Closed primaries and caucuses are damaging our democracy and limiting our voices. Our closed contest system makes us disenfranchised from voting for a possible nominee. A nominee that is by the people, for the people and not for lobbyist. In America, we have a system of closed and open primaries/caucuses every four years in a presidential race. Twenty-eight states are closed primaries in some form (Ballotpedia). With over half of the states being closed contest, millions of proud voters are left out from voting or it becomes increasingly harder to vote. This leaves us with the question of what would have happened if those millions were able to vote today or in the pass. History might have been different. This closed contest system has been

Winning the primary Ballot procedures Developing a personal following for the "party 's" nomination Incumbent advantage Sophomore surge Using the perqs of office Campaigning for / against Congress Impact of the way we elect individuals to Congress Legislators closely tied to local concerns Weak party leadership Primary versus general campaigns Kinds of elections and primaries: general versus primary elections Differences between primary and general campaigns What works in a general election may not work in a primary Different voters, workers, and media attention Must mobilize activists with money and motivation to win nomination Must play to the politics of activists Iowa caucuses Held in February of general election year

The 1980 presidential election of the United States featured three primary candidates, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Jimmy Carter and liberal Republican John Anderson. Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he decided to run for the presidency. John Anderson was a representative in Illinois and Carter was the incumbent. The lengthy Iran hostage crisis sharpened public opinions by the beginning of the election season. In the 1970s, the United States were experiencing a straining episode of low economic growth, high price increases and interest rates and an irregular energy crisis. The sense of discomfort in both domestic and foreign affairs in the nation were heading downward, this added to the downward spiral that was already going on. Between Carter, Anderson and Reagan, the general election campaign of the 1980s seemed more concerned with shadowboxing around political issues rather than a serious discussion of the issues that concerned voters.

The Presidential Primaries is a system put in place to help chose the best candidates for being the President of the United States of America. Now whether it is or is not an effective system is yet to be discussed later on in the paper, but it was put in place to help better to represent the people of the U.S. The presidential Primaries is very crucial to the candidates running for presidency. It allows the public to see who the candidates are, and how they conduct a campaign against one another.

Despite the clear dislike for nonpartisan elections by parties Nebraska managed to pass a term limit in 2000 to offset unicameral elections. This only increased partisanship drastically due to parties playing a direct role in candidate recruitment and increasing party coalitions (p. 76). Parties were now more involved in recruiting candidates that had the same ideologies and interest as them. In essence, the concept of having unicameral

This discussion board had me thinking about what I really want to share, and what I have seeing causing young children environmental stress. According to Mindes, “it is how parents deal with the news in their own homes also influence children’s views and fears” (Mindes, 2008, p92). So, the current event that is all over the new is the presidential elections. But is not really about the time of voting and watching the news, for learning who would be the next present. It is about the current presidential candidates that are causing stress all over my community. Well, allow me to clarify something, and I really hope to be clear enough to not confuse or insult anyone reading my post. Most of the people I provide services are Hispanic, I am Hispanic and about 80% of the population of my host school is

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.

A Presidential Election, determines how the next four years would be. The election is a fight between different political parties, and they fight to win and represent the political beliefs and values of their followers. In the 2016 Presidential Election, there are many candidates who ran for president. There are main two main parties, the Democrat party and the Republican party, there were also many Third-party candidates. Donald Trump the primary candidate for the Republicans ran with no political experiences and won while Hillary Clinton the primary Democrat candidate who was the former sectary of state ran and lost. Not only was there a fight between the different parties, there also was fighting among each other and in individual parties. Many parties had many different views on the issues of today world. They both made many different promises on each issue.