How do the two main parties decide who gets to run for president?

Question

Who or what decides this?

Your not making much sense people !

Who decides?

Answer 1

The legal process is described below. It truly is decided, though, on who has the largest war chest (financial backers investing in a person for his representation and favor) and a complicated network / weave of dependent trade and pending financial deals that accompany individuals. That weave of deals can be modified and adjusted to accomodate the backers of other candidates, so, the backers essentially create the "packaged deal" they seek.


Each State is allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each State's population as determined in the Census).

The political parties (or independent candidates) in each State submit to the State's chief election official a list of individuals pledged to their candidate for president and equal in number to the State's electoral vote. Usually, the major political parties select these individuals in their State party conventions while third parties and independent candidates merely designate theirs.

Members of Congress and employees of the federal government are prohibited from serving as an Elector in order to maintain the balance between the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.

After their caucuses and primaries, the major parties nominate their candidates for president and vice president in their national conventions - traditionally held in the summer preceding the election. (Third parties and independent candidates follow different procedures according to the individual State laws). The names of the duly nominated candidates are then officially submitted to each State's chief election official so that they might appear on the general election ballot.

On the Tuesday following the first Monday of November in years divisible by four, the people in each State cast their ballots for the party slate of Electors representing their choice for president and vice president (although as a matter of practice, general election ballots normally say "Electors for" each set of candidates rather than list the individual Electors on each slate).

Whichever party slate wins the most popular votes in the State becomes that State's Electors - so that, in effect, whichever presidential ticket gets the most popular votes in a State wins all the Electors of that State. (The two exceptions to this are Maine and Nebraska where two Electors are chosen by a statewide popular vote and remainder by the popular vote within each Congressional district).

On the Monday following the second Wednesday of December (as established in federal law) each State's Electors meet in their respective State capitals and cast their electoral votes - one for president and one for vice president.

In order to prevent Electors from voting only for "favorite sons" of their home State, at least one of their votes must be for a person from outside their State (though this is seldom a problem since the parties have consistently nominated presidential and vice presidential candidate from different States).

The electoral votes are then sealed and transmitted from each State to the President of the Senate who, on the following January 6, opens and reads them before both houses of the Congress.

The candidate for president with the most electoral votes, provided that it is an absolute majority (one over half of the total), is declared president. Similarly, the vice presidential candidate with the absolute majority of electoral votes is declared vice president.

In the event no one obtains an absolute majority of electoral votes for president, the U.S. House of Representatives (as the chamber closest to the people) selects the president from among the top three contenders with each State casting only one vote and an absolute majority of the States being required to elect. Similarly, if no one obtains an absolute majority for vice president, then the U.S. Senate makes the selection from among the top two contenders for that office.

Answer 2

You make it sound like it is fore-ordained.

Generally, if the sitting President CAN run for President, unless he
has been horribly unsuccessful or he doesn't want to run again,
he WILL represent his party in the general elections.

Other candidates raise money, try to get signatures to get their
names onto ballets, etc. They are "weeded out" as they run
out of money or it becomes obvious they could never win.

Of course, when the primaries are over, usually the votes from
the different states make it obvious who is going to be the party's
candidate.

But sometimes nobody has a clear majority and then there is a lot
of horse trading going on "in the back, smoke filled rooms". Given
today's hotel/public place laws, I'm not sure if those rooms will be
smoke filled, but you can bet your bottom dollar that the deals that
go into those meetings won't be publicized.

These meetings go on between big-wigs in the parties (like
the Party's chair), representatives from big delegations and,
no doubt, sources of large amounts of money.

Answer 3

Whoever wants to run gets approved by their party, ie the Democratic party. Right now there are a bunch of people running under every ticket. Soon we will have Primary Elections, and the winner of the Democratic Primary will officially run on the Democratic ticket. Anyone who did not win the primary can still run as an Independent.

Answer 4

The primary elections are held, and this in turn determines the will of the people in that state. Then that states delegates go to the national convention for each party and they vote their states preference. Then the votes are tabulated and the winner is nominated and then accepted by the party delegates to be the candidate. The candidate usually chooses his own running mate from the gallery of those candidates who did not win the nomination.

That is it in a nutshell.

Answer 5

Officially, it's the result of primary elections.

In practice, though, the national conventions make it pretty clear who would be an acceptable primary candidate, and the early party-dominated caucuses pick out the 'front runner' before the more populous states vote.

The media also plays a tremendous role in influencing who's bid for the presidency is taken seriously.

Answer 6

HAHAHA! Who runs and gets the presidential nomination is decided and controlled by the Illuminati, kiddo. They are the super-rich global elitists who run the world. Mainly its the Rothschilds in Europe. Their meetings are held every year in a different place for all the movers and shakers. It's called the Bilderburger group. THEY are the ones who decide who gets into political office, NOT the voters or anyone else and that's the truth.

Answer 7

A series of State primary elections. Each State decides whom they wish to see on the November ticket. At the end of the day, the candidate with the most State endorsements is the National candidate.

Answer 8

Anyone "can" run, and they participate in a "primary". The primary allows registered votes (generally) to select which of the candidates will best represent their party.

The official candidate (the winner of the party faithful-vote) from each party gets put on the ballot.

(and then we usually vote for the tallest guy) :)

Hope this helps

Answer 9

if the two top Republican party candidates in the race for president , can the party say we don't want one of them to run in the primary but, that candidate is ahead in the points, can they choose another candidate of there choosing to run in the primary just because they don't want that person in there?

Answer 10

They don't, we vote the popular vote, the appointed people by the governor do the electoral vote. If it is a landslide and the victor is far ahead it is likely the opponent will succeed you hope and the race is over, then we start volunteering for the big election in November.

Answer 11

The members of the parties vote on it