Presidential Nominations

The Big Idea Every four years, political parties officially select their presidential candidates at national conventions, following State primaries and party caucuses

Remember Primaries What are primaries? Presidential Primaries may look a little different due to this being on a national level not just a state there are other pieces of information that must be considered when the whole country is choosing. Remember the Constitution says NOTHING about primaries and candidate selection

Delegates This nomination process falls into the hands of the National Committees DNC: Democratic National Committee RNC: Republican National Committee Both parties will hold a National Convention at the end of the primary season declaring who will be their candidate for president. The candidate is chosen by delegates from each state each state has a certain number of delegates the delegates will officially vote for the candidate their state choses during the National Convention

Presidential Primaries Each state will hold its primary to decide who the delegates will vote for. Proportional representation any candidate who wins at least 15% of the votes cast in a primary gets the number of that state’s delegates that corresponds to the share of primary votes. SO there is a lot of math involved. First official primary is held in New Hampshire. Super Tuesday: is the one day most states hold their primaries.

National Convention This year they will be held: DNC: Philadelphia RNC: Cleveland This is usually a big multi night production with a lot of famous people The delegates cast their votes for nominee we already know who it is this is just a formality Big speeches Keynote address Vice President also announced

Obama Speech

Palin Speech