non-PRI candidates
Interstate compacts were formed to settle regional issues. States have to acquire the consent of Congress in order to form a compact.
Maine and Nebraska
Most states provide by law that candidates for the office of presidential elector shall be nominated by the recognized political parties at their state level conventions. A few states authorize the state party committees to make the choice, while other leave the process to the discretion of the parties; under this system, party organizations generally choose to nominate their elector candidates by convention, or through the state party committee. Several states provide unique mechanisms for selection of elector candidates. Pennsylvania, for instance, provides that the party presidential candidate may choose the presidential elector candidates for his or her party. In California, Republicans choose recent nominees for state and federal office to serve as elector candidates, while in the Democratic Party, candidates for the office of US Representative, and the two most recent candidates for US Senate, each choose one candidate for the office of presidential elector.
In the United States, a national party convention is the means by which the candidates for president and vice president are determined.
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1. to keep a political machine from importing (bribing) enough outsiders to affect the outcome of local elections (a once common practice) 2 to allow new voters at least some time to become familiar with the candidates and issues in an election
Drew
To become a single country & for the states to cooperate on major issues
In reality, states have no position in the nomination of presidential candidates other than holding legal elections. The parties determine the candidates.
The three most familiar states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas.
Officer Candidates School - United States Marine Corps - was created in 1891.
the candidates
Candidates concentrate on what are known as swing states. These are states that polls indicate are close to even as to which candidate they will vote for, The concentration is most intense in swing states with a large number of electoral votes.
The three most familiar states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas.
The electoral college simplifies the election map for presidential candidates. The candidates need only look at the electoral value of each state instead of the states' actual populations. With the laws in most states a candidate does not have to win overwhelmingly in the state's population to get all of that state's votes, but only a majority. This means that states where the candidate polls well ahead or hopelessly behind can be ignored scene those electoral votes are secured and impossible to get. This means that the candidates can concentrate most of their money and campaigning in what are known as battleground states. These states are states where candidates are polling about even and can those swing the election by campaigning there. Of the 50 states (plus DC) there are only about 18 battleground states, and of those states only 4 of them get more than 50% of the candidates attention and money. So the advantage is that presidential candidates only have to concentrate their effort in a few key states and can ignore most of the rest of the country.