When is the official date of Democratic Presidential nomination?

Question

And who decides who is leading the party?

Answer 1

If the Democratic Party runs its national convention in the same way as past conventions (in which the presidential candidate has been nominated on Wednesday night), the official date of the nomination of the presidential candidate will be August 27, 2008. The Democratic National Conveniton is scheduled for August 25-28, 2007 in Denver.

The nominee is decided by the votes of the delegates at the convention. The delegates are composed of approximately 1,000 automatic delegates (members of the Democratic National Committee, U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, and certain former party leaders including former Presidents) and approximately 3,000 delegates elected by the 50 states and the territories.

In each of the states, the Democratic Party elects delegates based on the results of a primary or a caucus process (which take place between January and June). Twenty-five percent are elected "state-wide" and seventy-five percent are elected by congressional or legislative district. At both the state-wide and district level, the delegates are apportioned based on the proportionate vote received by the presidential candidates (but only to those candidates who got 15% of the vote). In caucus states, the same rules apply at lower level conventions for selecting delegates to the next level.

The rules of the Democratic Party allows anyone to run for delegate. A person running for delegate either runs "pledged" to a presidential candidate or as an "uncommitted" delegate. For people seeking to run as "pledged" delegates, the campaign of the presidential candidate has some authority to veto such delegate candidates.

One last note, while most delegates are elected as "pledged" delegates (since very few people now vote for uncommitted), the pledge is non-binding which means that the delegate is free to change their mind between being elected and the convention. However, barring a major development, it is unusual under the current system (which dates back to 1972) for the convention to choose a nominee other than the candidate who won the most delegates.

Answer 2

a million 2 and 3 are sturdy plus ideal now he has a million,962 to hilary's a million,777. he's one hundred and fifty pledged state delegates previous to Hilary and theres incredibly 86 delegates left. regardless of if Hilary swept them she would not have sufficient of the favourite vote. He for optimistic has extra beneficial and no bear in mind if or now no longer the dems choose their candidate to be extra beneficial electable then mccain or now no longer, they understand if the favourite vote is for obama and the supers settle on for clinton for the win, there will be holly hell to pay from the black community and its friends.

Answer 3

It happens at the Democratic Convention, whenever that might be, in 2008...and, generally the nominee is whoever wins the most states(gets the most votes) in the Democratic primaries...