I want to learn about the process of U.S. presedential election.?

Question

What are caucuses, primary elections, and national conventions? How do people select delegates for electoral college? I still do not understand how they work even after searching for them on the internet. Would you make me distingush caucuses from primaries especially with simple words?

Answer 1

A caucus is most generally defined as being a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement. The exact definition varies between many different countries.

Political convention is a meeting of a political party, typically to select party candidates.

They select representatives to the electoral college to vote for the President.

Answer 2

Carcasses are groups of people who decide on a candidate usually sitting in small meetings then vote collectively. A primary is all people go to the polling station and vote individually
National conventions ratify the peoples choice in the primary election and choose a candidate to run in the final election
Delegate selection is a process of choosing loyal members of the parties (Republican and Democrat ,and Independent etc)
Electoral college is tricky and has been around too long. All states send delegates to confirm there states vote. It doesn't have to be the popular vote but they have the power to secure all the states vote even if the candidate they pick didn't receive the popular vote (majority) Hope this helps. If not email and I will try to assist further

Answer 3

I know what you’re thinking.“Wouldn’t that be nice--except it takes a constitutional amendment and Darlin’, that ain’t gonna’ happen!”

That’s what I thought too--until I read a brilliantly-reasoned proposal to the contrary:

We can have de facto popular election of the President in 2008.

It WON’T take a constitutional amendment.

It WON’T have to be passed by the U. S. Senate or House.

It WON’T have to be ratified by two-thirds of the states.

It is that rarest of issues--a simple matter of fairness that puts Democrats on the side of the angels and Republicans in the doghouse.

What Part of “Fair” Don’t Republicans Understand? Gallup tells us that 66% of Independents favor choosing Presidents by nationwide popular vote. 73% of Democrats feel likewise. Even Republicans--usually unanimously opposed to anything intelligent-- are split on this one.

And why not? Fair is fair. Make the bad guys try to explain why one voter in Wyoming should be able to cancel out four voters in California, or why one voter in the District of Columbia should be able to cancel out four in Texas, or why 43% of American voters, under the Electoral College system, should be able to prevail over 57%.

They can’t. In Reynolds v. Sims, a 1964 Alabama reapportionment case, the Supreme Court held that under the equal protection clause “as nearly as possible one man’s vote must be worth as much as another’s.” The Electoral College, though it’s in the Constitution, is unconstitutional.

(By the Way) How This Reform Works. The Constitution mandates the Electoral College, but it leaves to individual states how their electors are chosen. There’s absolutely nothing to prevent California’s state legislature from deciding “All of California’s electors shall cast their votes for whichever Presidential candidate receives the largest popular vote nationwide.”

(There may be brief delays until it is determined exactly which candidate that is, but that happens under the current system as well.)

Once New York and Massachusetts and a dozen other enlightened large states join California, the die is cast: a majority of electors vote for the candidate who wins the national popular vote. And we have achieved de facto direct election of the President.

Direct Election Can Help Sell a Comprehensive Voting Rights Act. With this simple, irrefutable fairness proposal in play, Democrats can broaden the voting rights issue to include other essential voting reforms absolutely crucial to preserving democracy in this country, packaging them all under the “One Man, One Vote” mandate.

It won’t be Sour Grapes anymore; it’ll be Common Sense