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The Democratic candidate for president in 1888 lost the election for all of the following reasons except:
to serve as a co-president
Each of the following factors contribute to the presidential selection system we use today except
chief of party is the answer
Every one of the 51 governments that appoint the electors of the U. S. President and Vice President currently uses public election to determine which candidates will get its votes. The District of Columbia, Arkansas and every other state except Maine and Nebraska each casts ALL of its votes for the Presidential candidate and the Vice Presidential candidate who received the most votes in its public election.The number of electors each of the states may appoint is equal to the total number of Senate and House seats that state has in the U. S. Congress. Every state has two U. S. Senators, and Arkansas has had four congressmen in the U. S. House of Representatives since 1963. Therefore, Arkansas casts six votes in each Presidential election and each Vice Presidential election through and including the elections of 2020. The number of votes Arkansas will cast in 2024 and 2028 depends on the result of the 2021 congressional reapportionment, and that depends on the results of the 2020 U. S. Census.
Ohio is so important in the election season because it is a swing state. This means it is one of the few states in the Union that is not heavily Democratic or Republican and can vote either way. These states are often what decides the outcome of the election. Florida and Nevada are other swing states. Ohio has been a swing state in most Presidential elections, in large part because its population mirrors that of the US as a whole. No Republican candidate has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio's 18 electoral votes, the most of any swing state except Florida (27 votes), which has only really been competitive since the extremely close 2000 election.