The American Presidential Elections Explained (1èreG_Gr2)
The American Presidential Elections Explained
The document
under study is a video about the process of the American presidential elections.
It is from The Telegraph, a British newspaper, published on Youtube in 2016.
We have
learned that there are several stages in this process; the first one is the Primaries: they are elections to select the
candidate for each party. Then, Conventions are organized in each political party to
officially launch their campaigns. Then,
American citizens vote usually on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of
November, it is called the popular vote. The
Electoral College will then vote as well to
elect the winner. It works with the “winner-take-all”
system, meaning in one state when a party has the majority of the votes they
win the entire electoral votes. The final
stage is Inauguration Day, when the
president officially take office in January
of the following year of the election.
During the
Primaries there are the Caucus states in
which the elections are organized in public, people vote by raising their
hands.
A swing state is state that has no party allegiance, therefore it is a battleground for candidates.
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