Today, November 6, US citizens are going to choose their president.
It will be the 57th quadrennial presidential election in which presidential, who will officially elect the president and the vice president of the United States on December 17, 2012, will be chosen.
The main competition is between Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney and this is a unique election since the chances for winning the elections is equal for both candidates.Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obamaand Democratic Vice-President Joe Biden are running for a second term during this election, the former being constitutionally limited to only two terms. Their major challengers are the Republican Party nominee Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.
According to US media, the citizens were very satisfied with the actions which were done my president Obama during the “Sandy” Hurricane, and according to some analysts the latest actions performed by Obama helped him to go ahead from Romney.
According to primarily data 47.9 % of the voters will vote for Obama and 47.4 % for Romney.The election of the President and the Vice President of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a slate of members of the U.S. Electoral College; these electors in turn directly elect the President and Vice President. Presidential elections occur quadrennials (the count beginning with the year 1792) on Election Day, the Tuesday between November 2 and 8,coinciding with the general elections of various other federal, states and local races. The most recent was the 2008 presidential election, held on November 4 that year. The next will be the2012 election, to be held on November 6.
The process is regulated by a combination of both federal and state laws. Each state is allocated a number of Electoral College electors equal to the number of its Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Congress. Additionally, Washington, D.C. is given a number of electors equal to the number held by the smallest state. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College.
Under the U.S. Constitution, each state legislature is allowed to designate a way of choosing electors.Thus, the popular vote on Election Day is conducted by the various states and not directly by the federal government. Once chosen, the electors can vote for anyone, but – with rare exceptions like an unpledged elector or faithless elector – they vote for their designated candidates and their votes are certified by Congress, who is the final judge of electors, in early January.
The nomination process, including the primary elections and the nominating conventions, were never specified in the Constitution, and were instead developed by the states and the political parties. This too is also an indirect election process, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party’s nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party’s presidential nominee.
The modern nominating process of U.S. presidential elections currently consists of two major parts: a series of presidential primary elections and caucuses held in each state, and thepresidential nominating conventions held by each political party. This process was never included in the United States Constitution, and thus evolved over time by the political parties to clear the field of candidates.
