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Choosing the US president
Find answers to all of the questions below:
What are Caucuses and Primaries? Caucuses and primaries are a way to choose presidential candidate for the party.
What is thedifference between the two? Caucuses are as smaller group then take part in primary.
How many delegates do you need at a national convention to become the candidate? There will be 2,286 delegateschosen and a candidate must accumulate 1,144 delegate votes at the Republican National Convention to win the nomination.
What are National Conventions? They are at the end of the first primaries andcaucuses. Each party has a national proposal to finalize the selection of each presidential candidate. Every presidential candidate chooses a partner he is vice-presidential candidate.
What is theGeneral (popular) Election? The party has finished to choose one candidate, they go around to the country to collect voters and finally in November people vote for one candidate (not directly theyvote for a group of elector, how then vote for president).
What is the Electoral College? How many electoral votes are there? Where/when do the electors meet? The Electoral College is system ofelectors, each state gets certain amount of electors (depending on each state's total number of representation in Congress). The electors cast their votes for President and Vice President. The electoralvotes are 538. The electors meet in December, the electors meet in their respective States. Federal law does not permit the States to choose an alternate date for the meeting of electors.
Can acandidate become president without the majority of the popular vote? Has this happened?
Yes, it can happen and it has happened in one of every 14 presidential elections.

What is inauguration?Inaugurations occur every four years (even in cases of re-election) on January 20th, at noon EST, in front of the Capitol. The new president is sworn in by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....