What percentage do politicians have to have in order to win without a run off?
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In every state except Louisiana, they simply have to be the leading candidate (a plurality) rather than having a majority of the votes.  In Louisiana, candidates need one vote over 50% to avoid a runoff election.
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anyone can run for office and hold a position as an elected official.No schooling is required.It is up to the person running to campaign for the position and presuade the people of the town,city,state or wherever he is running that he/she can do the job and is the best person for the job.It is up to the people to make their decision on who they want to vote for.This is one of our freedoms.
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The Democrat party had 44 seats, all of which, according to the word problem, they would keep. They need 51 seats - 7 more than they have. The difference between 44 and 100 is 56 remaining seats.\n\nSo, they need to gain 7/56 of the seats = 7 divided by 56 = .125 and that equals 13%.\n\ns
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tehre's a formula for it...\nit depends how much you run druing the game
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Roughly, a challenger has to outspend an incumbent 2-1 to have a shot at winning.\n\nRoughly 85% of the races are won by the person spending the most money.\n\nIN fact, people who run every two years (such as your House Reps from Texas in the US Congress) spend as much time fund raising as they do in Congress.
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They can get lost in the committee and never referred to the full Senate. The vote required to close debate (a cloture motion), which requires 2/3 can fail, which is also called a fillibuster. Or the vote itself, which requires a straight majority can fail.
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What career? Being evassive? Nothing telling all the necessary facts? How about a politician?
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Issues and concerns change. The politician who does not change is often left high and dry. If a politician runs for a higher office than the one they currently hold, they have to take into account the larger, more diverse population which is eligible to vote for the higher office. \n\nPolitics is often called "the art of the possible," for these very reasons. It's also been said that "the primary job of a politician is to get re-elected." This implies that he or she must change with the people who elect him or her and reflect their concerns. Holding onto an early "mandate" can be very difficult when you have to change your original positions.\n\nOther problems: being elected on a "mandate" is one thing, actually DOING something about it when you get into office is quite another; many times, those elected on a "mandate" discover that they need more help getting the madate implemented than they can muster; there's also the fact that being together with other politicians in a location far from your constituents often makes the memory of why you were elected fade.\n\nPolitics is a constant game of balances and compromises.
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On a mayoral level, sure. On a senate level, best wishes. Talk congress and higher though? Even if you were as honest as they come you'd be consumed and eliminated by the 99% that aren't.
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play an active role in ALL the politicians you have access to, expose ALL corruption, become a politician, insist on accountability for ALL money, instst on accurate documentation of ALL civic decisions your politicians, hold them responsible for outcomes of their civic decesions. if politics is no longer lucrative, the crooks wont want the positions.
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70% chance of them winning.
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I don't know what you are trying to make, but a political party usually gets its power from having a large number of members.  How can you get your candidates elected by a majority vote if you don't have a lot of voters voting for your candidate?
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In 48 states out of 50 there is a policy of winner takes all. This the key reason that more than two party system is not possible.
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Most politicians will say anything to get voted.  It's always fun to look back on what a politician said after they have been in office for a couple of years.  The problem is that everyone seems to think that teachers need pay raises, but no one will actually sit down and figure out how to do it.  It reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw:\n\nIt will be a great day when the education budget gets all the money it wants, and the military has to hold a bake sale to buy a jet.\n\nI might not have remembered it verbatim, but you get the idea.
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i dont think so\nbut u need to be aware of sat least some of the things\nbut most imp. u need to know how to be a good politician\nrest is secondary
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About 10%. Good luck!
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Simple: mid term elections.  Congressional candidates can distance themselves from the "president" if they think their constituents are unhappy with his performance.  If this is the case, the candidate can "promise" to help get the party back on track.