POLI 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kamala Harris, 6 Years, Twelfth Amendment To The United States Constitution
Nominations, Elections, and Campaigns
Primary Elections:
-A preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to
select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election.
-A closed primary in which voters must register their party affiliation to
vote on that party’s political nominees.
-An open primary in which any voter, regardless of party registration or
affiliation, could choose either party’s ballot.
Modified Primary Elections:
-CA has a top-two primary, a process that sends the two candidates with
the most votes in the primary election to the general election,
regardless
of party affiliation.
Caucus:
-Caucuses are simply meetings, open to all registered party voters, at
which delegates to the party’s national convention are selected.
-Voters in attendance divide themselves into groups according to the
candidate they support.
-The undecided voters congregate into their own group and prepare to
be “courted” by supporters of other candidates.
Evolution of the nomination process:
-For years, state parties had the power to decide how they would choose
their delegates to the national conventions.
-Party leaders dominated the process often hand picking the state’s
delegates.
-Caucuses and primaries existed but they were the pawns of party
officials.
-Although states had primaries, they were non-binding.
-The delegates were chosen by party officials not voters.
-Primaries were of so little importance that…
-In 1968 vice-president Hubert Humphrey was made the Democratic
party’s nominee without having competed in a primary election.
-As a result of the McGovern-Fraser commission..
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Document Summary
A preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election. A closed primary in which voters must register their party affiliation to vote on that party"s political nominees. An open primary in which any voter, regardless of party registration or affiliation, could choose either party"s ballot. Ca has a top-two primary, a process that sends the two candidates with the most votes in the primary election to the general election, regardless of party affiliation. Caucuses are simply meetings, open to all registered party voters, at which delegates to the party"s national convention are selected. Voters in attendance divide themselves into groups according to the candidate they support. The undecided voters congregate into their own group and prepare to be courted by supporters of other candidates. For years, state parties had the power to decide how they would choose their delegates to the national conventions.
