Parties, Primaries, and the Presidential Election
The presidential election process is lengthy and complex. First, candidates for the Republican and Democratic Parties campaign in each state for the national nomination of their respective party. They campaign for the support of the state’s delegates. If a nominee cannot be determined before the party’s national convention, the delegates choose a nominee at the convention. Once a nominee for each party is chosen, the candidates campaign for the presidential election. They heaviest campaigning takes place in the battleground states, since these states have more people and no one party dominates the electorate from one election to the next. The president is chosen by the electoral college—each state gets a number of electoral votes based on the number of their representatives and senators in Congress. A candidate needs a majority to win, which is 270 electoral votes.
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