The conventions begin with the seating of each state’s delegation. These delegates are pledged, by the results of the state primary elections and caucuses, to specific presidential candidates. The next order of business is the adoption of the party’s so-called “platform” - a set of princ...
This is the second in a series of articles The Weekly will run on major candidates seeking the presidential nomination. Included is a focus on key issues that could have significant consequences for municipal leaders and their cities and towns. Candidates are profiled after they formally announce ...
1. proposal, suggestion, recommendation a list of nominations for senior lectureships 2. appointment, election, selection, designation, choice On Leo's death there were two main candidates for nomination as his replacement. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language –Complete and Unabridged 2nd Editio...
Constraints between the Congress and the courts. Congress has the right of approval or veto presidential nomination to appoint federal judges of the Supreme Court, candidates must first of the Federal Supreme Court judges nominated by the Federal President but only through the approval of the Senate...
She also cited the 2008 race's significance as the first to produce a major party nomination of an African-American presidential candidate. 她还谈到了2008年总统竞选中首次提名一位非洲裔美国人作为主要政党总统候选人的重要意义。 www.america.gov 2. Trump added that had he decided to run, he is ...
1.(Political Science)The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention...
These nomination contests were won by the candidates (Gore and Bush) who received a majority of the convention delegates chosen in the 2000 presidential caucuses and primaries. Citizens in forty three states had an opportunity to express their candidate preferences by voting in their state's ...
Kamala Harris says she's 'honored' to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee after the DNC chair says the vice president has enough delegates' votes.
Trump won with 1,725 delegates, followed by US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas with 475, Ohio Governor John Kasich with 120 and US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida with 114. Three other candidates emerged with a total of 12 delegates. After the presidential nominating vote, the convention by voice...
Toward an adequate taxonomy of personality attributes: replicated factors structure in peer nomination personality ratings. “She Brought Only a Skirt”: Print Media Coverage of Elizabeth Dole's Bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination