what are the primaries for

[Lao Tzu]

How exactly do the primaries lead to deciding who gets to run on the democratic ticket.

 

[WODIN]

LMAO....

Usually its both parties having primaries but Bush is running unopposed.

Each state votes on a candidate the delegates from the states go the conventions and cast votes for the state.

It's just like the electorial college but on a party basis.

 

[Lao Tzu]

LMAO....

Usually its both parties having primaries but Bush is running unopposed.

Each state votes on a candidate the delegates from the states go the conventions and cast votes for the state.

It's just like the electorial college but on a party basis.

that was my understanding, that it was like a non-official electoral college. However what is a delegate exactly and how are they chosen, i though normal citizens voted in primaries.

i think the incumbent is always unopposed.

 

[WODIN]

The incumbent can have a challenger from his own party and that s the usual case.

Some states elect delegates the same way the do any other office. Most appoint them through the basic party machinery. Your local party offices may or might not have an assigned delegate to go to the convetion and they all get up and say "The great state of ______, home of ______, cast all there delect votes for ___________."

It's pretty much a formality now. However before various election reforms in the 1950's the delegates could vote pretty much the way they saw fit. Now they have to vote the way the majority of voters in there state votes.