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States

candidate selection

General

indirect process

National

January 20, 2017

November 8, 2016

Summer 2016

Feb­June 2016

Ben Carson

Hillary Clinton Lincoln

Chafee

Bernie Sanders

Jeb BushMarco Rubio

Donald Trump

Group decision

Individual VotersNH

IA

Political Party process for choosing a

candidate for general election from a large

field

more common; used in PA

choose VP for running mate ­ creates Party

Ticket

270 to win of 538

vote chooses electors winner­take­all

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candidate

incumbent

primarycaucus

­person seeking office

­holds position­ re­elected

] party selects a preferred candidate

convention ­meeting of the party to nominate/select official candidate

Vocabulary

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