So after the Primaries, Super Tuesday being the biggest day of the Primary ‘season’ when 24 states will vote, the two parties have a convention. These happen in the summer before the November Election.
During the primaries the delegates vote for one of their candidates and that person will be nominated for President. (Bear in mind we usually know the winner before the convention, because the primary season ends long before the convention, the convention simply makes it official) At the end of both conventions there will be a Republican nominee and a Democrat nominee and all the fuss at the moment is on who those two nominees will be.
They will then campaign until November when every state votes for President. The person who won the most Electors to the Electoral College wins the presidency. The Electors to the college are assigned to state based on size, so a small state has only a few while a big one will have a lot. This is where the ‘swing states’ come in. These are states that could go either way and have a lot of Electoral College votes. These are usually places like California, Florida, Ohio, and these states can often decide a election because of this.
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Originally Posted by Hom3r
I quoted the wrong thread, I should have quoted this one.
Well I knackered, I was up at 6:30, and the rest of the week I'll be up at 6am
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Yeah, Was just making sure it was clear that Super Tuesday and the Primarys do not decide who becomes president only who will be challenging for president.
