nominating convention

(noun)

A meeting of the major figures in a political party to outline a party platform, set party rules, select a nominee for president as well as rally supporters.

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Examples of nominating convention in the following topics:

  • Hosting Conventions

    • Political parties in the United States that will be fielding nominees in an upcoming U.S. presidential election are responsible for hosting presidential nominating conventions.
    • Another formal purpose of presidential nominating conventions is to adopt the rules for a given party's activities, such as the presidential nominating process for the following election cycle.
    • Nominating conventions also carry significance beyond their formal purposes.
    • Due to the national media presence surrounding presidential nominating conventions, they are also excellent tools to showcase a given party's leaders and policies to prospective voters.
    • Presidential nominating conventions, like the Democratic National Convention, host influential speakers to increase party unity.

  • Nominating Candidates

    • In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney was the Republican Party's presumptive nominee before the party's national convention; he was not officially nominated by the party, but because he had won the party's primary election, the official nomination at the convention was a mere formality.
    • In order to formally select candidates for a presidential election, American political parties hold nominating conventions .
    • In modern presidential campaigns, however, nominating conventions are largely ceremonial.
    • The presumptive nominee is not formally nominated until the national convention, but he or she is all but assured of a place on the ballot in the general election by the conclusion of the primary season.
    • Modern nominating conventions are largely ceremonial affairs, intended to strengthen party support of its presumptive nominee.

  • National Convention

    • A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States.
    • A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
    • Generally, usage of "presidential nominating convention" refers to the two major parties' quadrennial events: the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention .
    • Afterwards, balloons are usually dropped and the delegates celebrate the nomination.
    • President Gerald Ford, as the Republican nominee, shakes hands with nomination foe Ronald Reagan on the closing night of the 1976 Republican National Convention.

  • 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.
    • The voting method used during a convention is known as a rolling roll call of the states.
    • However, the presidential nominating conventions still serve as the official method of selecting presidential candidates.

  • The Nomination Campaign

    • In the nomination campaign, Presidential candidates are selected based on the primaries to run in the main election.
    • A United States presidential nominating convention is a political convention held every four years in the United States by most of the political parties who will be fielding nominees in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
    • The two major political parties try to clear the field of candidates before their national nominating conventions, where the most successful candidate is made the party's nominee for president.
    • Typically, the party's presidential candidate chooses a vice presidential nominee, and this choice is then rubber-stamped by the convention.

  • The National Convention

    • Political parties hold national conventions to nominate candidates for the presidency and to decide on a platform.
    • National party conventions are designed to officially nominate the party's candidate and develop a statement of purpose and principles called the party platform.
    • It also sets out the number of delegates to be awarded to each, as well as the rules for the nomination process.
    • Given the same routines and repetition of proceedings, presidential nominating conventions have become predictable for observers of the political process.
    • An image of future President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden after they were officially nominated for the Democratic ticket at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

  • The Election of 1952

    • The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, Illinois.
    • However, from there until the Republican Convention, the primaries were divided fairly evenly between the two men, and by the time the convention opened the race for the nomination was still too close to call.
    • The convention voted to support Fair Play, and Taft lost many Southern delegates.
    • This decision decided the nomination in Eisenhower's favor.
    • Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator Richard Nixon of California as Eisenhower's running mate.

  • Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884

    • In 1884, the Democrats gathered in Chicago for their National Convention.
    • The leading candidate for the nomination was New York Governor Grover Cleveland.
    • The Republican Party nominated James G.
    • These Republicans, called mugwumps, withdrew from the convention and declared that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if he were an honest man.
    • The Democrats answered by nominating Cleveland.

  • The People's Party and the Election of 1896

    • When the Republicans nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president in June 1896 and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of "Silver Republicans" walked out of the convention.
    • Teller; he was immediately seen as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination.
    • The 1896 Democratic convention opened at the Chicago Coliseum on July 7, 1896.
    • Louis convention, they decided to endorse Bryan but with their own vice presidential nominee, Thomas E.
    • 1896 Democratic Convention where Bryan delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech.

  • The Election of 1916

    • The 1916 Democratic National Convention was held in St.
    • Given Wilson's enormous popularity within the party, he was overwhelmingly re-nominated.
    • Marshall was also re-nominated with no opposition.
    • The Progressive Party re-nominated former President Theodore Roosevelt, but he turned down the nomination for both personal and political reasons.
    • This photo was taken during the 1916 Republican Party National Convention at The Coliseum in Chicago.