presidentialelection

In United States of America there is no other bigger event than the presidential election.The race for the most demanding position of the whole of united states occurs in every four years time.

Although each and every state has its own rules the election is mainly held by the law of US Constitution.The person who is selected as the candidate for the president will be selecting his/her deputy. These two nominees run as a unit. That is one can only vote for a one party. There could never be a president from one party and a vice president from the other.

In order to be eligible to be the United States president he/she should be more than the age 35 and a citizen of USA for 14 years with a native born identity.

In any presidential election campaigning plays a major role and could decide more than 10% of the votes. Meeting people in public is supposedly the most effective way getting into their hearts. But internet is a powerful tool as well. Ideas and views can be clearly offered to the voters through the internet. To give some pre election punches to your opponent the television debates could be used as a very strong medium. In fact in most of recent presidential elections whoever had done well in those debates became the winner.

The first president to be elected in United States from the current presidential election method was George Washington in 1789. Winning it with 69 Electoral votes it was a fairly comfortable win at the time. George Washington won the presidential election for the second consecutive time when he was again elected as the president in 1792. Selecting the vice president was done by a separate election from 1804. A separate electoral votes were conducted to select the vice president. This method was there until 1872 when it was decided that the candidate for president or his party should select the vice president. Apart from it ensuring both president and the vice president coming from the same party it did not have a huge impact on the election.

Franklin D.Roosevelt was a very popular choice for the president of United States as he ruled the post from 1932 to 1948. Winning four consecutive presidential elections he was able to beat his opponents with a fairly big margin . Other than George W. Bush many of United States presidents were selected with a huge majority of votes which is rather odd comparing with other countries .

Presidential election in United States comes only in four years time, but when it does there is no other bigger thing in the country. The articles available in the internet could give you some idea of how the election is being held. The event has such interest not because it is in USA but because it is the presidential election.