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Vor einem Tag · The election of the president and the vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College. [note 1] These electors then ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The new system existed primarily as a means of winning national elections and dividing the spoils of victory, and the principal function of the president became the distribution of government jobs. The term presidency of the United States of America refers to the chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Eugene V. Debs (born November 5, 1855, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.—died October 20, 1926, Elmhurst, Illinois) was a labour organizer and Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president five times between 1900 and 1920. (Read George Bernard Shaw’s 1926 Britannica essay on socialism.)
Vor 2 Tagen · Prior to ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1804), the runner-up in a presidential election [35] became the vice president. Electoral College votes are cast by individual states by a group of electors; each elector casts one electoral college vote.
Vor einem Tag · The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II, which ended the following year. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term.
Vor einem Tag · In a normal presidential election year in the United States, the primary season helps to winnow down the fields of Democratic and Republican candidates, until there is only one of each left. But ...
Vor 4 Tagen · He ran for president as a socialist in 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1912. In 1918, though, he was sent to prison for speaking out against American involvement in World War I, which was a violation of the recently passed Sedition Act. But being locked up in a federal prison in Atlanta didn’t lower Debs’ profile at all, and in 1920, he was once again ...
