- presidential roles - chief of state - head of government
- must abide by checks and balances
- representative of all the people of America
- qualifications - natural born U.S. citizen, 35 years of age, live in U.S. 14 consecutive years
- presidential succession - vice president succeeds him
- has happened nine times^
- president can nominate new vice president in vacancy
- originally had 2 electoral votes
- election of aron burr and thomas jefferson there was a tie
- people running for president go to conventions, debates, etc.
- national convention both parties decide who they want to represent
- national convention -- introduce candidates, adopt platform, stir up popular support
- primaries -- began in early 1900's
- two different types (delegate selection primary and candidate preference primary)
- New Hampshire is always first primary
- caucuses - meeting of a political party gather to select delegates to send to national convention
- typically current president is nominated
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