Student body president?

No the two most famous caucuses or primaries are the Iowa caucus which takes place in Iowa

The thing that the press focuses on are the precinct convention where people get together

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How do they decide on the number 538?

McCain got the majority of the state, all of the electors will be chosen from McCain's slate or from the republican party slate.

I mean, it was so incredibly close.

Did you vote for me for student body president?

This is why you have checks and balances.

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An election.

For whom will you vote for president?

Who will you vote for for president?

Instead we use something called the Electoral College

So, right here we have the break down of the Unites States by state of how many electors each State gets.

In Afghanistan, it could have meant instead of concentrating on the big presidential and parliamentary elections, we should have done what was in the Afghan constitution from the very beginning, which is to get direct local elections going at a district level and elect people's provincial governors.

The US House of Representatives.

Which leads us to the last one, which is our elections.

This is an election year.

Do you want to canvass?

Actually, even though they divide things by district and they have these at large candidates it actually a state wide election.

There are two elections every election cycle in Lesterland.

The timing. Disaster relief is essentially a backwards political campaign.

So for any given state they will have both a

If no candidate is able to hit this threshold of 270 Electoral College votes than it'll go to the US Congress

The campaign succeeded and he won the election.

The New Hampshire primary this is the first time that you have direct voting for candidates so you're getting I guess getting a more direct number or your not having it distorted or maybe cleaned up depending on how you view it by all of the different processes that might take place within the precinct convention

We're elected.

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The Electoral College...

Sit on it till the next election.

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He was chosen by election.

He won the election by a large majority.

Essentially, the Democratic candidate and Republican candidate are each trying to add up the electors in every state so that they surpass 270 electoral votes, or just over half the 538 votes, and win the presidency.

And it's there that they will choose their official candidates that will run against each other in the general election.

I sit on boards,ms.Parsons. I advise political campaigns.

In Afghanistan, for example, we haven't just had one election or two elections.

Is the population in your state increasing or decreasing?

You'd probably run for government.

Not an election, a coup!

On a rare occasion, like in the year 2000, someone can win the popular vote but fail to gain 270 electoral votes.