美国大选

Do You Know Their Names?
Number 1
George Washington(1st)
Number 2
Thomas Jefferson(3rd)
Number 3
Adrew Jackson(7st)
Number 4
Abraham Lincoln (16th)
Number 5
Ulysses Grant(18st)
The U.S. Presidential Election
Presenter: Felix
Outline Introduction
The process of the election
Comment
The tradition of election：
custom state law constitutional requirement
A Combination
Electoral College ---Article Ⅱ, Sections 2 and 4 Amendment（修正案）12. Article Ⅱ, Section 5 plus Amendments 20 and 23
Closed primary Open primary
Presidential election procedure
April
th 26
We are Americans and we will not surrender our dreams to the failures of this president. We are bigger than the misguided policies and weak leadership of one man. America is bigger than Barack Obama’s failures! Mitt Romney
Prudent and conservative
Donkey：Democratic Party
To bear hardships and hard work
Outline Introduction
The process of the election
Comment
Presidential election procedure
Electors casting votes
Inauguration
Presidential election procedure
Inauguration (总统就职典礼)
January
A inauguration speech
Place: Capitol in Washington
Outline Introduction
four consecutive terms
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
See the Map
A College No Majority
The Electoral College
The Number Of Electors
270 out of 538
A Winnertake-all Rule
Take Florida as an example: there are
altogether 27 electoral votes. If the republican candidate (Bush) wins more popular votes than the democratic candidate (Gore), then the 27 persons making up the Electoral College are from the Republic.
Requirements for the candidates
1
Natural-born American citizens
2
At least 35 years old
3
Residents of the United States for at least 14 years
Two consecutive terms
Amendment about Columbia
Barrack Obama John McCain
Donkey likely struggle
驴象之争
Bipartisanship
The two parties take turns ruling, mutual supervision and restraint
Presidential election procedure
Procedure of Presidential Election
Nominating conventions
Primary election
Presidential election procedure
Nominating conventions • Date: During summer • 1.The major political parties officially vote for their presidential candidate at their respective nominating conventions. • 2.The president candidates nominate vice president. • 3.Constitute formal election rules
Presidential election procedure
Procedure of Presidential Election
Nominating conventions
Primary election
The popular vote on Election Day
The general election campaign
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Presidential election procedure
Procedure of Presidential Election
Nominating conventions
Primary election
The popular vote on Election Day
Presidential election procedure
Procedure of Presidential Election
Nominating conventions
Primary election
The general election campaign
Presidential election procedure
The general election campaign
Electors casting votes
Presidential election procedure
Electors Elect
• Electors’amount:538 (at least 3 voters per state) • The electors gather in their respective state capitals to cast their votes on the Monday following the second Wednesday in December. • If the candidate receives a majority of the electoral vote (currently at least 270), he will win.
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1874年，他画了一幅摔倒的大象，用 它代表不满共和党总统格兰特执政的 共和党选民。共和党在国会中期选举 中大败，纳斯特又画了一幅受困的大 象予以讽刺。
Elephant： Republican Party
Presidential election procedure
Presidential election procedure
Procedure of Presidential Election
Nominating conventions
Primary election
The popular vote on Election Day
Procedure of Presidential Election
Primary election
Presidential election procedure
Primary election(预选)
nominate candidate
nominate candidate
February ~ June in the presidential year
The general election campaign
Presidential election procedure
The popular vote on Election Day
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. A Tuesday no earlier than November 2 and no later than November 8. • Generally, voters are required to vote on a ballot where they select the candidate of their choice. The presidential ballot is a vote "for the electors of a candidate" meaning that the voter is not voting for the candidate, but endorsing a slate of electors pledged to vote for a specific Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate
The general election campaign
Modern presidential campaigns are media driven.
Methods: 1. Advertising Generating favourable media coverage.
2.TV debate.
The process of the election
Comment
Democracy
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Article XII
The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;--The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;--The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the VicePresident shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (See Note 14)--The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shபைடு நூலகம்ll consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of VicePresident of the United States.