2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Nomination Game
Deciding to Run
Competing for Delegates
The Convention Send-Off
Technology on Campaigns
3. The Nomination Game
A nomination is a party’s official endorsement of a
candidate for office.
Anyone can be nominated, but only a few have
any chance of success.
The Campaign Strategy is the way that each
candidate attempts to nominate each of the
elements to achieve nominations.
4. Deciding to Dun
To run for president, you need to be in the right
mindset. Basically, you have to be what Walter
Mondale once called a “fire in the belly.”
In industrialized countries, a campaign lasts, on
average, 2 months, depending on the laws of
that region.
Only one candidate emerges for each party’s
nominee.
5. Competing for Delegates
The national party convention is the supreme
power of each of the parties, which functions to
select presidential and vice presidential
candidates and to write a party platform.
There are 50 roads to the national convention,
one through each state.
From February through June of the election year,
the individual state parties busily choose their
delegates to the national convention via
caucuses, or primaries.
A caucus or state party is a meeting of all the
party leaders for selecting delegates to the
national party convention.
6. Competing for Delegates
cont.
In the dozen states that still have them, caucuses
are now open to all votes who are registered with
the party.
Today, most of the delegates to the democratic
and republican national conventions are
selected in presidential primaries, in which voters
in a state go to the polls and vote for a candidate
of delegates to that candidate. This is the Primary
Road.
The McGovern-Fraser Commission is a commission
fomed at the 1968 democratic convention in
response to demands for reform by minority
groups and others who sought better
representation.
7. Competing for Delegates
cont. even more
Super delegates are National Party leaders who
automatically got a delegate slot at the
Democratic National Party Convention.
Front Loading is the process resulted on two-thirds
of both Democratic and Republican delegates
being chosen within sex weeks of the new
Hampshire primary in 2000.
8. The Convention Send-Off
At one point in time, conventions provided great
coverage of the candidates.
At the conventions, there were several speeches
that were given, along with several “dark-horse”
candidates suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
Numerous ballots were held, all while the
candidates fought each other to win nomination.
The National Primary is a proposal by critics of the
caucuses and presidential primaries, which would
replace the electoral methods with a nationwide
primary held early in the electional year.
9. The Convention Send-Off
Cont.
Regional Primaries are proposals by critics of the
caucuses and presidential primaries to replace
these electoral methods with as series of primaries
held in each geographical region.
The Part platform is a political party’s statement of
its goals and policies for the next four years. The
platform is drafted prior to the party convention
by committee, whose members are chosen in
rough proportion to each candidate’s strength. It
is the best formal statement of a party’s beliefs.
10. Technology on Campaigns
Technology has changed the way campaigns are run, and also changed the way
candidates attempt to reach people.
Most candidates now have their own official websites.
