candidate

Examples of candidate in the following topics:

• Candidate Releases

  • The purpose of a candidate is to subject the code to wide testing before blessing it as an official release.
  • The cycle continues until no unacceptable bugs are left, at which point the last candidate release becomes the official release—that is, the only difference between the last candidate release and the real release is the removal of the qualifier from the version number.
  • In most other respects, a candidate release should be treated the same as a real release.
  • Other than that, give candidate releases the same amount of care as regular releases.
  • After all, you want people to use the candidates, because exposure is the best way to uncover bugs, and also because you never know which candidate release will end up becoming the official release.

• The Candidates

  • Issue voting can also be problematic when candidates' stances differ drastically from those of voters.
  • Candidates are most often evaluated on their party affiliation and stances on prominent issues.
  • Many candidates utilize demographic factors to appeal to voters.
  • Other candidates appeal to voters through shared religious affiliations.
  • Describe how and why candidates' personal characteristics can be relevant to an election campaign

• Likeability of Political Candidates

  • Candidates run for office by orchestrating expensive campaigns designed to increase their appeal to the electorate.
  • Candidates running for election to public office need to appeal to the electorate in order to acquire votes.
  • In many elections, candidates are primarily differentiated by being either liberal or conservative.
  • Therefore, access to monetary resources is an important trait for candidates to possess.
  • Identify the reasons the electorate might be drawn to a particular candidate

• Selecting Candidates

  • Election candidates have often been determined before conventions, but are still formally declared as their party's official candidates at the conventions.
  • These nominees then proceed to the presidential nominating conventions where a candidate will officially be determined.
  • The presidential candidates of the two major political parties in the United States are formally confirmed during the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.
  • However, the presidential nominating conventions still serve as the official method of selecting presidential candidates.
  • Bush and Dick Cheney were declared the official presidential and vice presidential candidates at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

• The Impact of Minor Parties

  • Third-party candidates exert influence by focusing the election on particular issues and taking votes away from major candidates.
  • Third parties usually organize and mobilize around a single issue or position, putting pressure on candidates from major political parties to address these issues.
  • For example, segregationist American Independent Party candidate George Wallace gained 13.5% of the popular vote in the 1968 election.
  • Although it is unlikely that a third party candidate will ever garner a plurality of the vote, they can influence the election by taking votes away from a major party candidate.
  • Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate, is accused of "stealing" votes away from Al Gore, a Democrat, in the 2000 election.

• Presidential Candidates

  • For example, in the United States, presidential candidates must win a majority of votes as allocated by the electoral college, which depends upon the candidate winning the popular vote in individual states rather than in the nation at large.
  • By contrast, in France a candidate must win over 50% of the popular vote to be elected to office.
  • Super PACs generally support a candidate by attaining large contributions for expensive television ads.
  • Since they are not directly tied to candidates, super PACs often produce attack ads, or negative ads against opposing candidates, that the primary parties would not explicitly endorse.
  • Assess the costs and benefits -- to candidates and the public -- of the two party system

• Campaigning: Traditional Media, New Media, and Campaign Advertisements

  • Campaigns seek to actively engage with the media in order to present a particular image of the candidate.
  • Although people often assume that candidates are elected because of their policy positions, many presidential elections are won and lost based on likability of the candidate.
  • Americans only "get to know" a candidate through the representation of the candidate in the media.
  • This was particularly clear by then-candidate Senator Barack Obama's use of social media in the 2008 election.
  • This practice has now become standard; Republican candidate Governor Mitt Romney also released an app in 2012.

• The Candidates

  • Voters often vote based on candidates' images or likeability .
  • Candidate images are not entirely malleable.
  • Images are easiest to create early in a campaign when many people may not know much about a candidate.
  • The media's depictions of presidential candidates Republican George W.
  • When people decide to vote based on candidates rather than party identification or political ideology, candidate image can be very important.

• Nominating Candidates

  • Nomination is the process through which political candidates are chose to campaign for election to office.
  • Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for election to office.
  • To nominate candidates, political parties hold primary elections.
  • Primary elections are used to narrow the field of candidates for the general election.
  • Describe the steps by which a candidate appears on the ballot in a general election

• Organizing Campaigns and Elections

  • Such connections play a vital role in allowing presidential candidates to maintain a base of supporters they can depend upon during elections.
  • Aside from the process of nominating a presidential candidate, the DNC and RNC's roles in selecting candidates to run on the Democratic and Republican Party ticket is minimal.
  • Once a presidential candidate is chosen from each respective party, the Democratic and Republican National Committees provide crucial candidate support and party-building activities.
  • Candidate support activities range from collecting polling data to running ad campaigns.
  • The DNC and RNC collect polling data to produce maps showing where candidates have leads in certain areas.