POL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Campaign Finance In The United States
21 Aug 2016
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The framers of the constitution never made any provisions for the nomination process of presidential candidates. Once parties emerged, party members wanted their own candidates. In caucuses, party leaders used to informally agree on a ticket (this obviously was not very democratic) Factions within parties led to the demise of caucuses. This lead to trying national nominating conventions (and also conducting brief experimenting with primaries) In 1970s, there was a lot dissatisfaction with amount of leader control. (this caused a desire to want to open up the process and include more people in it. ) Mcgovern-fraser commission (this was conducted to improve the conditions of how presidential nominees were selected. ) Candidates acquire delegates in state primaries and caucuses. Delegates pledge to vote for candidate at convention. Nominee is individual with 50% + 1 of delegate votes. In each state, delegates are appointed to candidates according to both national party and state rules. Insiders, select the delegates (and, thus, presidential nominees)
