USA Presidential question
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:13 p.m. - Subject: USA Presidential question |
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Yes, I am ignorant towards most Presidential topics. Even in Canada. I’ve been seeing a lot about the Obama/ Clinton election campain going on for a nice while now, since I visit cnn.com daily. While I was in school I never paid much attention to this stuff and now I would like to know.
How do these elections work in USA? I noticed this one has been going on for a longass time. How do the voting systems work? Does it go by like whoever wins the most amount of votes over the whole country, or is it who wins the most in every state and has the most states.
Serious topic please.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:31 p.m. - Subject: |
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For the president, the people vote on the candidate they want elected, based on those votes, the electoral college votes. Who ever gets more votes from the electoral college wins.
For candidate, the need a certain number of delegates to be able to run for president. I’m not sure the actual number, but who ever gets the majority wins, but if they are close, then thats when the people’s votes matter.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:33 p.m. - Subject: |
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The Democrats pick a representative; the Republicans pick a representative. When the polls open for the Presidency, the people of the states vote. The votes are tallied and the popular vote in each state determines the way the electoral college casts their votes. Each state has a different number of votes, depending on population. This is how the total popular vote doesn’t always choose the president. The popular vote in each state causes the electoral votes for that state to be sent to who received the most votes. Whoever gets more than 270 electoral votes becomes President.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:34 p.m. - Subject: |
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im pretty sure right now it’s all ’primaries’ which is BEFORE the actual election, and they go state to state and get an idea of who people are voting for, then each party nominates the most popular one, and they campaign more, then the elcetion happens, and whomever wins the most states (worth however many point each) wins the election
I think.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:39 p.m. - Subject: |
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Yes right now Clinton and Obama are campaigning to try to get more delegates to back them. This will determine the Democratic nominee. McCain and Ron Paul are the two most likely Republican nominees, but McCain has had Ron Paul beat for a looong time. I’m guessing it’s gonna be, Obama vs. McCain.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:40 p.m. - Subject: |
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So how long does an election usually go on for. This one has been going on for a long time hasn’t it?
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:45 p.m. - Subject: |
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It goes on for months before the primary election. The first day of the primary election was February 5th, which was Super Tuesday. Then the presidential election day is sometime between November 2 and November 8th.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:45 p.m. - Subject: |
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The presidential election process is a long one. It usually begins about a year before the actual November election point, but the build up is even longer before that. People have been talking about who the next candidates for President were gonna be since right after Bush got reelected. I think it’s the last Tuesday of the month or something like that in November, when the polls are opened.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:49 p.m. - Subject: |
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So Bush isn’t running is he? I haven’t read anything about him.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:51 p.m. - Subject: |
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A president can only be elected for a max of 2 terms, or 8 years total. This is his 8th year.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:55 p.m. - Subject: |
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Bush cant run.
He served his maximum years in office (8 years) and now is getting booted the fuck out during November.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:55 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: max of 2 terms, or 8 years total.
Technically, they are allowed ten years, but only two terms.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:55 p.m. - Subject: |
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How can they serve ten years?
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:55 p.m. - Subject: |
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bush has had his time in office, its over.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:57 p.m. - Subject: |
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He was in 8 years? Holy shit. I didn’t think he was around that long.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:58 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: How can they serve ten years?
If they are VP and the Pres. dies half way through his term, they will finish his term (two years) and then can run for their own terms and serve twice (eight years). It says so in the Constitution.
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| Posted: May 16, 2008 8:58 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: How can they serve ten years?
Umm the only way that I could see that is if the previous president is killed or dies and the vice takes over finishes out the term and then runs twice in the future. I think the law says they can only be elected for 2 terms, not forced into office by the death of the pres.
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| Posted: May 17, 2008 6:21 a.m. - Subject: |
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This is somewhat unimportant... But in WWII, FDR served a total of 12 years because the American public saw him as an amazing president. He brought the nation out of the depression with a whole bunch of reforms, some of these reforms still stand today, he was a decisive war leader, etc.
Anyways, main idea here, a president has served more than 10 years, but they aren’t really supposed to.
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| Posted: May 17, 2008 6:36 a.m. - Subject: |
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takes a longass time to accually get to the election...
First theres whats going on now, candidates going at it, and then at the end theres gunna end up with one for each party (Democratic, republican, sometimes Independent) and then the real election starts and whoever wins is president...
gets annoying for fucking 8 months of shit for one day of voting.
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| Posted: May 17, 2008 10:45 a.m. - Subject: |
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they call me and say "Hey GMT, who should be president" and then I tell them. Sadly I was taking a shit when they called about Bush
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