<p>I think the election process will be on the FRQ. Can anyone give me an explanation of how the election process works?</p>
<p>you say my name is George Bush, and then you wait for everything to just fall your ay ;) ...</p>
<p>What makes you think that the election will be on the FR section? :/</p>
<p>el oh freakin el sheed. but yeah totally i love speculating about what the frq are gonna be becuase it totally helped when i took apush last year. so election process huh? something about iowa caucus new hampshire primary frontloading horse-race journalism electoral college exit polls representative sample lame duck. just some of the buzzwords they might be looking for lol glhf</p>
<p>Wow I had to reread that 2nd to last sentence like 3 times to make any sense of it whatsoever. Anyways, has an election process question ever been asked?</p>
<p>i'm just wondering about the nomination process.
isn't there a difference between how the democrats do it and how the repubs do it?</p>
<p>I'm slightly confused on the caucuses vs. primaries thing. The way I understand it, primaries are used to directly elect the candidate for the party, while caucuses elect delegates who go to the national convention to elect the candidate, but there were conflicting answers in the other thread.</p>
<p>the only difference i remember is that democrats have "Superdelegates" who, according to wikipedia, "are usually party officials or elected officeholders. Superdelegates were first appointed in the 1970s, after control of the nomination process effectively moved out of the hands of party officials into the primary and caucus process. The aim was to allow party officials to have some say in the nominee." and Superdelegates are about 15% of the people at the DNC if i remember correctly</p>
<p>primaries are like regular elections except its democrat vs. democrat and republican vs. republican. caucuses are where party regulars get together and organize for the election, form a platform, elect party leaders and select delegates, and finally hold a presidential preference vote. so its like old people get together and talk then vote instead of regular election day but for a single party.</p>