presidential nominating conventions

Examples of presidential nominating conventions 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.

• 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.

• 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.
  • The formal purpose of such a convention is to select the party's nominee for President, as well as to adopt a statement of party principles and goals known as the platform and adopt the rules for the party's activities, including the presidential nominating process for the next election cycle .
  • Generally, usage of "presidential nominating convention" refers to the two major parties' quadrennial events: the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention .
  • President Gerald Ford, as the Republican nominee, shakes hands with nomination foe Ronald Reagan on the closing night of the 1976 Republican National Convention.

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • Platforms are created during presidential nominating conventions where delegates have an opportunity to vote on salient issues.
  • These votes present a majority view on how issues should be handled and how they can be used by the presidential candidate to unite divergent viewpoints under one popular view.
  • Platforms created during presidential nominating conventions unite diverse factions within a party by adopting middle-of-the-road positions on issues and addressing special interest groups in some sections.

• Organizing Campaigns and Elections

  • In addition to hosting conventions and selecting candidates to run in presidential elections, political parties play key roles in 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.
  • Later, the DNC and RNC supervise the presidential nominating conventions that officially declare the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
  • Once a presidential candidate is chosen from each respective party, the Democratic and Republican National Committees provide crucial candidate support and party-building activities.

• 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 modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections.
  • 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.
  • A national convention is a political convention held in the United States every four years by political parties fielding candidates in the upcoming presidential election.
  • National party conventions are designed to officially nominate the party's candidate and develop a statement of purpose and principles called the party platform.
  • Conventions today are largely ceremonial events with little influence on the presidential campaign beyond how the convention is received in the press.
  • Given the same routines and repetition of proceedings, presidential nominating conventions have become predictable for observers of the political process.

• 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.

• Political Party Leader

  • The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections, which the two major political parties use 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 rubber stamped by the convention.
  • After winning the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • The 2012 presidential election was the 57th quadrennial election in the United States.
  • The Democratic nomination was uncontested with the incumbent, President Barack Obama, running for reelection .
  • Santorum suspended his campaign in April, leaving Romney as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
  • Romney was officially declared as the Republican Party's nominee at the Republican National Convention on August 30, 2012 .
  • Incumbent President Barack Obama was the Democratic candidate for the 2012 presidential election.