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Whig

Hannibal Hamlin

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Republicans

Republicans

Democrats

The national conventions for each political party are composed of delegates who select the respective president and vice president nominees for their party. The conventions are held by their respective national committee. Beside selecting a president and vice president nominee, the purpose of the national conventions is to adopt their party's platform and unify the party. It signifies the end of the presidential primaries and the start of the campaigning for the presidential election.

The 12th amendment

The electoral college is when the citizens of the state vote and are tallied up to and whomever has the majority vote, that is whom the state votes for all together. The popular vote is each individual citizen voting for whom they believe is fit to be president and whoever wins, becomes president. The electoral college has more influence over who becomes president. A person can win the electoral college vote and not the popular vote but no president in american history has won the popular vote and not the electoral college.

Gore had won the popular vote in Florida but the electoral college vote was too close to confirm a nominee. The Florida Supreme Court called for a recount. Prior to the recount, Gore had been winning in votes. However, The United States Supreme Court decided this violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment thus giving Florida's vote to Bush, which was ultimately won him the election. The court vote was 5-4, five republicans, four democrats which in turn created quite the controversy for if Gore had won Florida, he would have won the election.

There was a difference in opinion between the free states and the slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery

Abraham Lincoln

The Civil War

Matters go into the hands of the House of Representatives. From the three candidates with the most electoral college votes, the house elects the president, each state delegation with one vote. The senate would elect the vice president based on the two vice presidential candidates with the most electoral votes, each senator with one vote.

The presidential candidate who received the second largest number of electoral college votes automatically became vice president. The 12th amendment changed the election progress by mandating electors to vote for both the president and the vice president.

Ronald Reagan, with 525 electoral votes and 54,455,075 popular votes

Norman Thomas of the socialist party ran for president six times. He was never elected.

November was originally chosen back in 1789 (the first election) because it was a convenient time for farmers when the weather was still nice enough to travel through and the majority of their crops had already been harvested.

A candidate is not officially elected president until the Monday after the second wednesday in December when the electoral college casts their votes

In most cases, it is January 20th