election day

Examples of election day in the following topics:

• Electing Candidates

  • An election is a decision-making process used in a democracy to choose public office holders based on a vote.
  • Generally, elections consist of voters casting ballots at polling places on a scheduled election day .
  • Electoral systems then determine the result of the election on the basis of the tally.
  • The question of who may vote is a central issue in elections.
  • Most national elections require that voters are citizens, and many local elections require proof of local residency to vote.

• The General Election Campaign

  • A general election day may also include elections for local officials.
  • In U.S. politics, general elections occur every four years and include the presidential election.
  • There is no analogue to "calling early elections" in the U.S., however, and the members of the elected U.S.
  • Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.
  • All federal elections including elections for the President and the Vice President, as well as elections to the House of Representatives and Senate, are partisan.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected President of the United States on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012.
  • The 2012 presidential election was the 57th quadrennial election in the United States.
  • Days prior to the 2012 Presidential Election, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, devastating many states in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions.
  • Incumbent President Barack Obama was the Democratic candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
  • On November 6th, 2012, Obama was re-elected President for a second term.

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

  • In the 2012 presidential election, super PACs have played a major role, spending more than the candidates' election campaigns in the Republican primaries.
  • The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 prohibited corporations and unions from using their general treasury to fund "electioneering communications" within 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election.
  • During the 2004 presidential campaign, a conservative nonprofit organization named Citizens United filed a complaint before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) charging that advertisements for Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11, a documentary critical of the Bush administration's response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, constituted political advertising and thus could not be aired within the 30 days before a primary election or 60 days before a general election.
  • The dissent argued that the court's ruling "threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.
  • In the 2012 presidential election, super PACs have played a major role, spending more than the candidates' election campaigns in the Republican primaries.

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • Elections to the Senate are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years, Election Day, and coincide with elections for the House of Representatives.
  • Senators are elected by their state as a whole.
  • House elections are first-past-the-post elections that elect a Representative from each of 435 House districts which cover the United States.
  • House elections occur every two years, correlated with presidential elections or halfway through a President's term.
  • An increasing trend has been for incumbents to have an overwhelming advantage in House elections, and since the 1994 election, an unusually low number of seats has changed hands in each election.

• The Nomination Campaign

  • The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections.
  • Presidents are elected indirectly in the United States.
  • On Election Day, voters in each of the states and the District of Columbia cast ballots for these electors.
  • This date, known as Inauguration Day, marks the beginning of the four-year term of both the President and the vice president.
  • Describe the procedure by which the Electoral College indirectly elects the President

• The 20th Amendment

  • It also deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect.
  • The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
  • The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
  • If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.
  • Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.

• Presidential Candidates

  • Presidents are usually elected to office by a democratic election.
  • Likewise, elections can also depend on the candidate winning a certain proportion of a vote as determined by election guidelines.
  • By contrast, in France a candidate must win over 50% of the popular vote to be elected to office.
  • Historically, the two parties have changed many times, but elections have usually involved a conservative and a liberal party — in modern days, the Republican and Democratic parties.
  • For example, President Barack Obama was the first non-white U.S. president to be elected.

• The Gallup Organization

  • Historically, the Gallup Poll has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning virtually every political, social, and economic issue of the day, including highly sensitive or controversial subjects.
  • Gallup Polls are best known for their accuracy in predicting the outcome of United States presidential elections.
  • Truman election, where nearly all pollsters predicted a Dewey victory.
  • For the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Gallup was rated 17th out of 23 polling organizations in terms of the precision of its pre-election polls relative to the final results.
  • In 2008, Gallup interviewed no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults each day, providing the most watched daily tracking poll of the race between John McCain and Barack Obama.Gallup also conducts 1,000 interviews per day, 350 days out of the year, among both landline and cell phones across the U.S. for its health and well-being survey.

• Voting as Political Participation

  • Beginning in the 1980s, some states, including Maine, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, made it possible for people to register on Election Day.
  • Turnout in states that have Election Day registration averages ten points higher than in the rest of the country.
  • How many people actually participate in elections often depends on the type of election.
  • A large number of elections are held in the United States every year, including local elections, elections for county and statewide offices, primaries, and general elections.
  • Midterm elections, in which members of Congress run for office in nonpresidential-election years, normally draw about one-third of eligible voters.