8A » Sunday, March 27,2016 » KITSAPSUN AJOURNAL MEDIAGROUP PROJECT CLOSER TO NOMINATION ELECTIONS Marchhas passedand thereare only ahandful of voting days left untilbothpolitical partiesholdtheir conventions. HillaryClinton 2016 andDonaldTrump areleading in thedelegatecounts, butthatstill does notmeantheyhaveaneasyroadtotheir respective party nominations. When delegate totals arethisclose,anythingcan happen at thenationalconventions this summer. Millions of people have votedinprimariesand at caucuses duringthe first fewmonthsthisyear. Theirvotes arenow in thehands of just afew thousand people. MEETTT THHEE DELEGATES The modern presidential nominationprocess —linking avotecastfor acandidate to the allocation of adelegateatthe convention level—was born outofalaw passed in 1910 in Oregon.In2016, 35 U.S. jurisdictionshaveorwillholdprimary elections, 13 have or will hold caucuses andeight have some combinationofthose. 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Sources: www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-delegate-tracker/;votesmart.org; ballotpedia.org;www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/;www.poynter.org/2016/heres-what-journalists-need-to-know-about- superdelegates/396248/;www.newsweek.com/democrats-keep-controversial-superdelegates-71649;www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/12/what-happens-if-republicans-face-a-brokered-convention-explained/;www.realclearpolitics.com/ articles/2015/12/22/a_brokered_convention_in_2016_why_it_might_happen_what_it_might_mean_129119.html RACE FORTHE WHITEHOUSE WHAT HAPPENS AT A EL20ECTI16ONS DELEGATE TRACKER CONTESTEDOR Source:http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-delegate-tracker/ BROKERED CONVENTION? REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT NEEDED TO WIN NOMINATION: 1,237 NEEDED TO WIN There hasbeenalot of talk this year aboutcontested,orbrokered, NOMINATION: 2,383 Donald Trump: 739 MikeHuckabee: 1* conventions. This happenswhenacandidate does nothavethe majority HillaryClinton: 1,703 TedCruz: 465 Notyet allocated: 944 BernieSanders: 985 of delegatesneeded to secure thenominationafter thefirstvoteatthe MarcoRubio: 166* Notyet allocated: 2,077 John Kasich: 143 convention. Ben Carson: 8* *Jeb Bush, BenCarson, Carly NOTE:Numbers include On thefirstround of voting,all pledgeddelegates must vote forthe candidate JebBush: 4* Fiorina, Mike Huckabee,Rand superdelegates pledged to thecandidates. to whom they arepledged.Iftheyvotefor adifferentcandidate,their vote is not CarlyFiorina: 1* Paul andMarcoRubio have RandPaul: 1* suspended theircampaigns. Notall delegateswereawarded as of counted. States where voteswere dividedproportionallycannotdecidetogive presstime. alltheir delegatestoone candidate. OTHERKEY DATES Superdelegates on theDemocraticsideand unbound delegatesonthe April1:North Dakota primaryand West Virginia June 14: District of Columbia Republican sidecan vote forany candidatetheywish. Republicancaucuses primary Democratic primary Things gettrickyifacandidate doesn’tget themajorityofvotes afterthe first April5:Wisconsin primary May17: Oregonprimary and July 18: RepublicanNational round. Rules, setbeforeeachconventionbyacommittee,can vary on what April9:Colorado Republican KentuckyDemocraticprimary Convention convention andWyoming May24: Washington state July 25: Democratic National happenstopledged delegatesafter that first vote.Atpastconventions,for Democratic caucuses Republicanprimary Convention example, candidates were free to releasetheir delegatestovotefor someone April19: NewYorkprimary June 4: U.S. Virgin Islands Sept.26: Presidential debate April26: Connecticut Democratic caucuses Oct. 4: Vice presidential else,ordelegates became unpledged if acandidate’s supportdropped belowa primary, Delaware primary, June 5: Puerto Rico debate certainpercentage. Maryland primary, Democratic caucuses Oct. 9: Presidential debate Pennsylvania primaryand June 7: Californiaprimary, Oct. 19: Presidential debate Voting continuesuntil acandidate reachesthe majority of votesneeded to RhodeIslandprimary Montanaprimary,New Jersey Nov. 8: Election Day secure thenomination. May3:Indianaprimary primary, NewMexicoprimary, COMINGNEXTMONTH: A Both Democrats (in1952) andRepublicans (in1948) lost thepresidential May7:Guam Democratic North Dakota Democratic look at howthe candidates caucuses caucuses andSouth Dakota have beenusing social media election aftertheir last multi-ballot convention. May10: NebraskaRepublican primary to reach potentialvoters..
“The Return of the Brokered Convention? Democratic Party Rules and Presidential Nominations.”
“The Return of the Brokered Convention? Democratic Party Rules and Presidential Nominations.” By Rick Farmer State of the Parties 2009 October 15-16 Akron OH Front loading, proportional representation and super delegates are changing the dynamic of the Democratic presidential nomination. Since 1976 capturing the early momentum was the key ingredient to winning. Barack Obama’s nomination in 2008 demonstrates how these three forces are converging to re-write the campaign playbook. Front loading created a 2008 Super Tuesday that approached national primary day status. Proportional delegate allocations kept the race close when another system might have put the delegate count out of reach; and with a different result. Super delegates made the final decision. The 2008 Democratic presidential contests produced, in effect, a brokered convention. Without reform, many more brokered conventions appear to be in their future. Below is a discussion of how the reforms of the 1970s and 80s combine to produce this perfect storm. Then, the 2008 campaign illustrates the effects. The major reform proposals are examined. Finally some conclusions are drawn. Reforms of the 1970s and 80s American political parties grant their nomination to a single candidate at a national convention. Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party nominations can be won with a simple majority of the delegates. Delegates are pledged through a series of caucuses and primaries. Both parties are following similar calendars but Republican Party rules result in a different type of contest than Democratic Party rules. Parties have met in quadrennial national conventions for the purpose of selecting a presidential nominee since 1832.
Letter to the Democratic National Committee, the DNC Rules Committee, and All Delegates to the Democratic National Convention
Letter to the Democratic National Committee, the DNC Rules Committee, and all delegates to the Democratic National Convention: The undersigned organizations hope that all Democrats agree that the will of the voters should be decisive in determining the Democratic nominees for the country’s highest offices. We therefore urge the Democratic Party – via action at this month’s Democratic National Convention – to eliminate the concept of so-called “superdelegates.” This change would not impact the ongoing nomination proceedings, but would take effect for all future national nominee selection processes and conventions. The superdelegate system is unrepresentative, contradicts the purported values of the party and its members, and reduces the party’s moral authority. • The system undermines representative democracy and means that the electorate is not necessarily decisive in determining who will be the Democratic nominees for president and vice president and dilutes the voters’ say over the party’s platform and the rules under which it operates. Astonishingly, these unelected delegates have essentially as much weight as do the pledged delegates from the District of Columbia, 4 territories, and 24 states combined. • The system undermines the Democratic Party's commitment to gender equity. While the party’s charter rightfully mandates that equal numbers of pledged delegates be male and female, a near super-majority of superdelegates are men. • The Democratic Party prides itself on its commitment to racial justice and the racial diversity of its ranks. Yet the superdegelates appears to skew the party away from appropriate representation of communities of color: Proportionately, approximately 20% fewer of this year’s superdelegates hail from communities of color than was true of the 2008 and 2012 pledged delegate cohorts, or of the voters who supported President Obama in those years’ general elections.
Presidential Nominating Process: Current Issues -name redacted- Analyst in Elections February 27, 2012 Congressional Research Service 7-.... www.crs.gov RL34222 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Presidential Nominating Process: Current Issues Summary After a period of uncertainty over the presidential nominating calendar for 2012, the early states again settled on January dates for primaries and caucuses. Iowa held its caucuses on January 3 and New Hampshire held its primary on January 10. These two states, along with South Carolina and Nevada, are exempt from Republican national party rules that do not permit delegate selection contests prior to the first Tuesday in March, but specify that these contests may not be held before February 1. Officials in Florida announced that the state would hold a January 31, 2012, primary, in violation of party rules, which prompted South Carolina and Nevada to schedule unsanctioned events as well. South Carolina scheduled its primary on January 21; Nevada Republicans originally scheduled party caucuses for January 14, but changed the date to February 4. States that violate the rules risk losing half their delegates, as a number of states already have. Every four years, the presidential nominating process generates complaints and proposed modifications, often directed at the seemingly haphazard and fast-paced calendar of primaries and caucuses. The rapid pace of primaries and caucuses that characterized the 2000 and 2004 cycles continued in 2008, despite national party efforts to reverse front-loading. The Democratic Party approved changes to its calendar rules in July 2006, when the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee extended an exemption to Nevada and South Carolina (Iowa and New Hampshire were previously exempted) from the designated period for holding delegate selection events; and the committee proposed sanctions for any violations.
Political Marketing and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections
Department of Business Administration Title: Political Marketing and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections Author: Veronica Johansson 15 credits Thesis Study programme in Master of Science in Marketing Management 1 Title Political Marketing and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections Level Final Thesis for Master of Business Administration in Marketing Management Adress University of Gävle Department of Business Administration 801 76 Gävle Sweden Telephone (+46) 26 64 85 00 Telefax (+46) 26 64 85 89 Web site http://www.hig.se Author Veronica Johansson Supervisor Maria Fregidou-Malama, Ph.D. Date 2010 - January Abstract Aim: Over the years, marketing has become a more and more important tool in politics in general. In order to campaign successfully – and become the President-elect - in the U.S. Presidential Election, marketing is indispensable. This lead to enormous amounts of money spent on marketing. The aim of this research is to contribute to existing knowledge in the field of political marketing through the analysis of how marketing is done throughout a political campaign. The 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections, together with a few key candidates have served as the empirical example of this investigation. Four research questions have been asked; what marketing strategies are of decisive outcome in the primary season of the 2008 political campaigning, how is political marketing differentiated depending on the candidate and the demographics of the voter, and finally where does the money come from to fund this gigantic political industry. Method: The exploratory method and case study as well as the qualitative research method have been used in this work.
CHAPTER 12 PENNSYLVANIA Following Hillary Clinton's Big Victories in the Texas and Ohio Democratic Primaries, the 2008 Campaig
CHAPTER 12 PENNSYLVANIA Following Hillary Clinton’s big victories in the Texas and Ohio Democratic primaries, the 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president became two campaigns. The first campaign was to see who would win most of the ten remaining presidential primaries. The second campaign was over who could gain the most support from the super- delegates, a special set of delegates to the Democratic National Conven- tion who were appointed rather than being selected in the caucuses and primaries. SUPERDELEGATES When the Democratic Party changed its rules in the early 1970s, it endeavored to make the Democratic National Convention a more inclu- sive event. States were required to select more women, young people, and minorities as delegates to the convention. The new rules worked quite well, and the group image of the delegates that went out to the nation on television became noticeably more diverse. By the early 1980s, however, one group was conspicuously missing at the national convention. That was party elected officials, such as state governors, members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, etc. Although a number of women and minorities held major elected offices throughout the nation, it was still true that most elected officials were middle-aged white males. The party rules requiring more women, young people, and minorities at the national convention were, in effect, excluding significant numbers of the party’s major holders of elected office. That was mainly because so many of these elected officials were men, were well-along in their careers, and were not members of a minor- ity group.
{Download PDF} Who Will Be the Next President? a Guide to The
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT? A GUIDE TO THE U. S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SYSTEM 2ND EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Alexander S Belenky | 9783319446950 | | | | | Who Will Be the Next President? A Guide to the U. S. Presidential Election System 2nd edition PDF Book Howie Hawkins April 19, Retrieved July 27, It could even be worse than the Hayes-Tilden election of , which was settled two days before the inauguration. Unpledged delegates don't. Modern history portal Politics portal United States portal. Senator from Delaware — Born November 20, October 4, FOX Attorneys controversies short tenures Dismissals U. The much more likely scenario, however, is that partisan politics will drive decisions in each state—and quite possibly dueling decisions in some states. In most states, the governor and the state legislature conduct the redistricting although some states have redistricting commissions. Retrieved April 14, Retrieved October 22, Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld became Trump's first major challenger in the Republican primaries following an announcement on April 15, They'll get you the answer or let you know where to find it. Tilt D flip. Retrieved May 4, September 23, Accepted 3rd party nomination April 23, , votes. Retrieved November 14, Who Will Be the Next President? A Guide to the U. S. Presidential Election System 2nd edition Writer In 48 states and Washington, D. Retrieved July 27, The law continues the use of the congressional district method for the allocation of electors, as Maine and Nebraska have used in recent elections. W: April 5, votes 0. Retrieved December 6, This led to the concern that Biden may have contracted the virus from Trump; however, Biden tested negative.
How to Win the Democratic Nomination, and Why It Could Get Complicated - the New York Times 27/02/2020 14 34
How to Win the Democratic Nomination, and Why It Could Get Complicated - The New York Times 27/02/2020 1434 https://nyti.ms/37JW1OY How to Win the Democratic Nomination, and Why It Could Get Complicated Bernie Sanders says winning a plurality of delegates is good enough for the nomination. His rivals say a majority is needed. What does that mean? And why are superdelegates coming up again? By Matt Stevens Feb. 22, 2020 The last question at Wednesday night’s Democratic debate covered much wonkier territory than the fiery exchanges that preceded it. But it exposed a rift over what could become an extremely relevant topic: how the party’s presidential nominee should be chosen. “There’s a very good chance none of you are going to have enough delegates to the Democratic National Convention to clinch this nomination,” the moderator Chuck Todd told the candidates. “Should the person with the most delegates at the end of this primary season be the nominee even if they are short of a majority?” Every four years, pundits imagine such a scenario. But with eight Democrats still in the 2020 race, several of whom could split the available delegates, the premise may be more than theoretical this time around. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the only candidate to agree that, in his words, “the person with the most votes” should get the nomination. This was not surprising given that he is currently the front-runner and — at least at the moment — appears to be the candidate most likely to win a plurality, but perhaps not a majority, of pledged delegates.